Western Express, King of no answer and sit and wait for no pay

Takes a certain kind of crazy for this to be the dream job. All power to you though, lol.

 

Thank you! Yes it does but I'm awesome at what I do and I wouldn't have it any other way! I was born and bred to be a truck driver :smt003

 

If your interested I have a friend who has MANY trucks leased onto Magnum. He's always looking for good drivers. He will get at least 3,500 miles a week. If your interested send me a PM and I'll make the introduction.

 

Quality companies is celadon trucking. You can lease to celadon old dominion foward air freight mayflower eagle logistics which is percentage based and maybe 10 other companies. Over the summer they had a pilot program that would allow drivers who wanted to lease a truck from quality to take tge truck to any carrier in the united states. They tried it with 10 drivers 9 idiots failed 1 succeded so they cancelled the part where you could potentially lease to any company you wanted now i think theres maybe 13 or more companies you can go to. Was going to pu a truck through them till they decided not to give leasees that ability to take truck to any company. If you lease on celadon you only pay as the truck is moving .25cpm

If they bring back that program im sure some seasoned drivers would find it beneficial

Its 1dollar buyout. They add 10-15k within the monthly payments so you do pay a lil more for the truck but id rather do that then shell out a ton of cash up front and have another driver pay off the truck for me

 

Why would anybody actual want to drive 3500 miles a week.
Thats insane

 

I would. I need the money. Don't knock them for offering hey husband work. Pm me to talk about that job. Please

 

Exactly. I doubt her husband has nearly as much experience as he does. Your first sentence nailed it though. It's very simple garbage in > garbage out If someone is a moron and bothers me and gives me garbage, I will get offended and cease going above the minimum requirements to help them. It is the job of the person at the mercy of the mechanics to give the incentive to go above the call of duty to help you. I have seen this too, where someone who was extremely nice caused my fellow employees to bend over backwards for them.

I am going into orientation with Western Express this weekend by the way. I know it's a terrible company but they were the only one willing to give me a chance with a serious felony charge reduced to misdemeanor. I figure that once I have 6 months to a year experience everyone else will want to hire me again.

 

I started their L/P on June 18, not bad so far, I think the biggest factor is getting a decent truck from them, and since we can't have the trucks checked out by mechanic, it's like luck of the draw.
I got 2011 Cascadia with little over 500k, been running well and getting good gas mileage. The engine is not burning any oil and I am planning to get it analyzed via Blackstone,, it's like 25 bucks and I will get the coolant analyzed too. Also plan to get all fluids replaced with synthetics. when my maintenance fund grows and install a bull bar too. I hit a deer last year working for my last company and my truck was in the shop for 5 days with $5500 repair bill.
I looked into buying my own truck at 50k range but most wanted 20 to 25percent down and I was broke.
So this truck is 50k, and obviously no money down and no finance charges. yes I know they are making money off me but I am making decent income even with all the deductions.
Truck payment itself is $384 per week. The 3 full weeks I had so far, I have averaged $1000, and I just had my best week in terms of mileage close to 3000 miles and I will see what my pay is when Friday comes around.
My background is ex army, have about 2 full yrs of driving tractor trailers, and I want to use this opportunity as a stepping stone to own my own truck and be independent.
I got a print out of the repair history of my truck from the garage the day they gave me this truck and it seems they
already spent 60k in parts and labor on my truck lol, so maybe my truck is like brand new.
Its a 3yr lease and it can be payed off early cause I opted for putting in 9cents per mile in the maint fund and its at $700 already, I would estimate that if I didn't touch it, I would have at least 10k in there in a full year.
Anyway, I am just here to state what I am personally going through, not here to promote anything.
Gl too everyone out there cause you can work really hard, but sometimes luck can have a big factor in how things work out.

 

9 cents per mile for maintenance fund, doesn't sound like nearly enough driver.... but good luck!!!