What is Variant?

The Variant drivers are marketing Variant because they get paid .2 cents a mile extra for new recruits driving. In addition to the referral bonus, etc. None of those fools are gonna talk about the negatives.

 

I drove for Variant for a year and a half ( was 1 of the originals that transitioned from USX when Variant was a pilot program called Ventures. Made decent money at first, but the last 6 months were not good. My main gripe, and possibly the biggest reason I left was....getting hung up in "the loop". I'm from Louisiana, yet I spent 98% of my time in PA, OH, NY, and VA running 300 mile short hops. The bad part was almost all of those were overnighters. I couldn't make money like that. It also got where I had to fight with them to get layover pay, which happened often because of their lack of empty trailers. It wasn't like that at first. In my opinion, Variant took a negative hit when they fired "the guy". I moved on and am happier where I'm at now. I worked under the USX umbrella (counting Variant) for 6 years

 

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At least you're pet friendly

 

Variant has a pyramid scheme program where you recruit a "squad" and train the people you recruit. Those drivers become part of your earning potential. That's why this driver was fishing.

 

Oh that makes sense that he was fishing. On the other hand, WTH? Multilevel marketing in trucking? Smh.

 

It's out there and it's real. You'd be surprised at how many "new drivers" we ban because the only thing they're here for is to recruit and get referral fees. It's an on-going problem and we do our best to keep it off of TTR.

 

It's basically Total 2.0... I know they are goverened to 65 and the drivers seem to live in the trucks... Pay is without a doubt average

The only way I'd go around a U.S. Express based company again is MAYBE for the day cab stuff; which even recruiters don't seem to have info on... Before I went to a Russian company Total Transportation was the worse company I ever worked for purely because of the office staff

 

Better than being below average.

 

I've only been gone 6 months. I knew at least 20 different drivers that were there then. I still talk to most of them, and now there's only 1 that's still there now....and he's looking real hard for another place. I still talk to some of the folks at Tunnel Hill in the office. They don't even seem happy. 2.5 years and already needing a re-launch. Ain't looking good

 

Weird thing to me is; a lot of the megas seem to have some really decent "home daily" gigs. If they really pay out like they advertise, that is