Teaming for Con-Way or US Xpress

53' only
96.6% have super singles(I made that up)
20% corporate discount on phone rates.
You'll prefer Canada with their hos/ample parking/small populations. Only get paid for loaded crossings.

No pay for local pickups
No pay for driving 60 miles to broker in Laredo and back to yard in Laredo.

 

I meant the wide base tires super single
Couldn't tell ya.
Local dh = you don't get paid.

If you take a loaded trl from Laredo in Laredo you can get 22 bucks. Just not if you are the one that brought it down.

Sometimes I ask if I have 3 hrs left or somin. Makes you on their good favor list come assigning loads. Lots of kiss ### compliments will get you 1000+ mi loads every time. Those ppl get a lot of frustration that should be geared @ joplin directed at them. Poor Rafael &crew ....though some of it they deserve.

Schneider doesn't pay their drivers to take to the broker ethier (we are neighbors) so albeit usx
doesnt.

My miles are slightly up this year. Prob has to do with the economy.

 

I drove Con-Way as team for a year. This is what we got, when it was all said and done with.

46 CPM 50 CPM Hazmat (Split)
4c Safety Bonus (We never saw this. The only bonus either of us got was a 25$ Xmas Bonus that looked like a normal paystub, we only saw it by chance.)

We came experienced, so 1 Week Orientation was all we got. Agility Test, Backing Test, Truck Driving Test, then we got into a Van and did a practical Smith System drive.

Practical mile pay. and Ne bonus pay. We were also promised 5,000 Miles a week, but we never got that.

Our average was roughly 5,600 miles a week. We would have gotten more but my teamate was unable to get a US passport, so we always got stuck in Taylor MI, or Buffalo NY.

Con-Way took care of us while we were teamed, good miles, got us home (The hometime works weird, we always requested ours in the Consignee's lot before we delivered a load.) Then they have 7 days to get you home.

We were thinking about doing US Express Dedicated for Target, but my teamate quit on me. As far as training goes, it's important to get good training but no matter how good your trainer is, you'll learn new things from day one till you quit.

In the end for us it boiled down like this:

Con-Way - Slightly More Money, Slightly Less Hometime
USX - Slightly Less Money, Slightly More Hometime, Dedicated Routes available.

All the lanes at Con-way like the Michaels and CWF runs are booked up, and very unlikely you'd get one short of working there many years.

Also with Con-Way we found we were running short loads a lot if we got into the NE area (PA, NY, MA, MD, RI) and our Kenworth had the wheels blocked so we could not make a full right turn.

 

Great Con-way team info here:
http://www.betweenthegears.blogspot.com/

 

Congrats and good luck. Good news is winter conditions are almost gone. Bad news is winter conditions are almost gone. A little time with a seasoned vet along side encountering winter conditions for the 1st time would have been a plus.