US Xpress...my experience so far

yes they would realy like you to take it

 

Will they not hire you of you turned it down???

 

Hi there. I am considering USX and have a couple questions if anyone could please help. Looking to go Solo OTR. Wanted to know:

1. Are the trucks assigned or do they sift seat? Again solo OTR
2. What is average size of the sleeper? Solo OTR
3. When you go on your 2 month team training before you can go Solo is same sex or will I be put with opposite sex as a team driver for that period?
Thanks anyone that can help me with this and thanks for your posts and info.

 

like i said they would realy like you to.... but no you can op-out

 

Hey!! I'm new too and I have been looking for stuff about teams but I can answer one question for you... Training: if you are female and you request a female training be prepared to wait. Female trainers are hard to come by sometimes. You may have good luck and happen to come across one that's not busy, but more than likely not. I am female and my husband and I will be applying to USX once in school. We understand that unfortunately for those 3-ish weeks of training I will be with a male trainer. If a female is available, I will absolutely request her. There are plently of male trainers so my hubby won't have a problem. Keep looking and asking questions. This forum is terrific. Look all over the whole site. Lots of great info out here!!

 

#1 trucks are assigned and you take the truck home for hometime trailer if you can bobtail if you can't
#2 70" condo for most but we do have some prostars with shorter sleepers
#3 can't help with this one

 

Hey flood, just looking for your personal opinion regarding the per diem: if you wisely invest that money you are not taxed on ( just an Ira or Roth) then is it worth doing? We are looking to do this until retirement. And you know as well as I do that every penny counts. You seem so knowledgable and I respect your opinion.

 

the reason i don't do it as a company driver (i'm a o/o now so i can't anyway)

the per-diem is milage base so if you don't run enough miles every day you are not getting the per-diem you are alowed, you must run about 450-500 miles each and every day for it to work, are you going to avg that for everyday you are out NO (breakdown, 34hr reset's, time between loads)

they cut you pay .02cpm just to be on it then split the rest pay and pre-diem around 65/35

for ssn, L & I, bank (loan's, car, house) you income is less a lot less remember per-diem doesn't show as income

the avg driver can write off $17.000 plus just in per-diem at the end of the year

so at the end of the year with per-diem you income would be say $24,000
without per-diem it would be say $35,000 but you get a $17,000 write off
so at the end of the year $35,000 (you paid tax on) - $17,000 = $18,000 taxable income...! REFUND

the only time i can think of were company per-diem is a good thing is if you have childsuport (your taxable income is less)

now with all that said you need to check with your tax person and make sure they know trucking taxes
the first queston to ask them is "what is the per-diem rate for truckers" if they say anything other than $59 a day run
most don't know what "truckers per-diem" is and they will do normal per-diem $90 plus a day and thats wrong and if the irs checks guess what.... do you realy want to deal with owing the irs....

 

Awesome info. Thanks so much. Hey do you happen to know where on the forum is a good place to ask if anyone knows a good trucking accountant based out of Florida? I'd like to post it where the right people see it... Thanks!

 

can't help with that