USXpress Orientation

The recruiter called again today and she asked when I wanted to attend orientation in California. I said I had a couple of ?'s 1st. I told her that I had seen write ups on the internet that drivers that had gone through orientation and sent home to wait for a trainer. I asked if this was true ? She said "yes..there was a chance you could be sent home to wait for a trainer". I asked if you got paid for this time since USX required you to quit any employment you had before going. She said "no" "but the wait should only be a few days". Iasked what was the average wait she said "1 week". I said I saw a write up where one person was still waiting since Thanksgiving. She said "if that was true it was the drivers fault for not being available and being ready when the call came. I said I saw more than one on there. She said " we have 4500 drivers and that is only 2 reports".
I asked if transportation was paid for to return home to wait. She said "yes". I asked if I would have to return to California once called that a Trainer was available? She said "maybe...or you could get picked up depending on the load".
She seemed to have knowledge of some of the postings even though she did not mention this site by name. She did seem a little upset at the ?'s but was very nice at the end.
I wonder what she put in my folder?
I told her I needed time to think about a date and would get back to her. I also told her that I had been "pre-hired by 2 other companies and I needed to weigh the best option. She seemed fine with that.

 

This is my 50th !!!

 

Oh there for a second I was thinking 50th trucking job.

 

What are your other options? You should b ready financialy if you choose USX.I've been waiting since jan 15, My Coordinator Told me the first day thait could be up to three weeks. Week 2 i told him I had a family issue and only would go out of town if it would not affect me(friday thru monday). He said no I would just have to call that next week and get put back in the system (rehire). Well I made a bad choise I took them a week to put me back in thru the rehire dept. On top of that I got shot back to the end of the line. So I guess this means up to three more weeks untill I get a trainer.Oh well Atleast its tax time and I had a lil' put away on top on that. Im so sick of sittin on my butt gettin fat and lazy. I hope this is a career that is going to be worth all this crap.?. Well good Luck fellow Trucers!

 

Let me know who it works out with USX. I still haven't ruled them out. Did they offer to pay your way home while waiting ?

Where did you go through orientation at ?

 

I finished orientation for USX just this past month, and have spent more time sitting out here than rolling. First run was a whopping 27 miles right back to the terminal in Ga. We were fooled into believing Calhoun Transport was the perfect opportunity for us, keeping us in the location we were asking for, then after two days of running for them, they went belly up. They came back as Swift Enterprises Inc. at the end of the week. So we went to USX, seeing as how that is what we though it was in the first place. They put us in a truck and we sat through the New Year. And sat, and sat. I get short runs and then I sit to ponder why I'm here or why I left JB Hunt to do this. Long runs I get to start, then I have to give them away. So you decide, "sitting at home or sitting on the road". My advice, keep looking for that silver lining of a company - I AM!!!

 

Ya I hear that, the only difference between Zanesville and this DC seems to be that the freight is floor loaded in Zanesville, no rolltainers there. I did one run for them out of there, one stop was told it was rolltainers and come to find it was 36,000 floor loaded. Lightest piece on the truck was 25lbs. I ran out of Zanesville to some podunk town in central NY. A 9 hour drive, got there 4 hours early so they weren't ready and had to wait 4 hours. Then they had these two I beam poles in the "dock", I took care of them with my chains real fast after I loosened them with their POS trailer. I managed to unload in less than 5 hours, a personal best for me on a floor load by myself, but herniated a disc in my back in the process. I had to drive 4 hours to buffalo the next morning and waited in a bad neighborhood for 6 hours to receive 6 cases of headbands, yeah glad that wasn't a pay by weight payload. Oh forgot the best part, wasted 4 hours on the NY state thruway sitting at a DOT checkpoint waiting for a certified NY state thruway mechanic to reset the 3 very badly adjusted trailer brakes on a POS trailer that got me pulled over into the checkpoint in the first place. The brakes by the way were all over 2 inches out of adjustment, and these trailers are supposed to be "inspected" after every run?? So in all a run that should've taken a day and half turned into a 2 and a half day affair. I rejected every load that USX attempted to throw at me out of there after that.

 

Well I guess you did not get a chance to read my posts on USX before you hired on, or did not buy what I said.

People considering hiring on at USX as a SOLO driver need to remember that they put your miles on the rails and Solo's are used for short haul and to PU and DEL for the many teams and contractors they have. They will hold you for days so you can meet that train and hump the load a hundred miles and deliver it.

What good is .41 cents a mile if you ain't getting the miles or have to throw your log book in the sleeper and be able to run whenever because you are starving at the T/S and terminal.

Read and Heed people.