us express

Stay away from cr England at all cost!!

 

USX will buy you a bus ticket to get to orientation, pay for the hotel, buy lunch and pay you $58 a day during orientation. The hotel provides breakfast. All you are responsible for is dinner.

 

USX is great if you want to be a trainer LOL. For solo OTR its mediocre. You will average around 36cpm. If you like weird hours and can live without an inverter Heartland is a good choice. With the higher CPM you wont need to run as much to make a good paycheck. The others I don't know.

 

I have also heard good things about Crete for Solo's. I have friends who drive for Celedon as a team and love them. You might want to check them out for Solo also.

 

The problem with Heartland, as I understand the company, they have a very unique idle system in their trucks. It's temperature sensative as to whether you can idle or not (ambient temperature controlled). Ask some questions before you head straight to them. I also understand that Heartland will NOT allow invertors at all.

 

US Express is a family of truck companies... Arnold, C & C Trucking, Link America now I think, partnered with Smith Transport (Roaring Springs PA), Total Transport and a couple more. I worked for Smith prior to thier joining with USX and things were good but after USX got into the company it just didn't feel or operate the same. I don't really have anything bad to say about USX but Smith shared yards and terminals with them and I would often times go into a yard and see some USX drivers sitting there on multiple days as I was traveling in and out for Smith. I worked for YRC Glen More for a number of years when Yellow/Roadway (YRC) sold the equipment and entity to Celadon almost 2 years ago. Celadon was a complete long haul company that wanted to diversify and operate some of it's fleet as Regonal... that's why Celadon bought YRC Glen Moore from YRC... they previously tried to buy another company but that freight line fought and kept Celadon from buying. Anyway, what little exsposure I had to Celadon in transition was enough to keep me from going to work for them. I looked up Celadon here on this forum and other sites and found that Celadon's drivers claimed they ofteten didn't get reimbursed for "some" expenses... that orientation was said to be in a hotel in Indy but in reality it was their "bunk" rooms at their home terminal. Again, I don't know these claims to be true or not because I didn't accept the offer of employment when they aquired YRC Glen Moore. Just offering my two cents and hopefully you'll make a good decision thats right for you. Good luck!!!

 

USX restricts idle also. Truck will shut off after 5 minutes if the temp is between 28 degrees and 70 degrees. The truck have bunk heaters for cold weather. They do allow inverters up to 1750 watts.