What is Variant?

What do they define as a critical event?

 

Anything that tripped the camera. Things like getting to close to the white line at a red light or stop sign, going over 68 mph downhill even tho the speed limit is 70-75, getting inside the 6 seconds following distance parameters. USX is the safety department there, and they micromanage obsessively

 

They have the usual critical events also. You know, hard brake, swerving, ect. Those are universal, and you pretty expect a phone call for violating those, but the first ones I listed took it over the edge for me

 

Glad I reconsidered going there. They probably wouldn't like my downhill speed. I routinely use jake, but don't apply service break until I hit 70. Over 68 is regular occurrence.

 

When I worked for Total A.K.A. U.S. Express A.K.A. Variant years ago it was the same deal... I remember they would call you if you were in a backup longer than thirty minutes(even early in to a 2,800 mile load post loading), and you had to send in a macro if you went over a DOT scale.... Pretty sure that last part has since changed...

 

Not if you compare it to their parent company usx they are great! Stay away from both they are stripping variant truck back to usx.

 

Lol...Variant is the Amway of trucking.

 

It's actually hard to find a mega with OTR or regional by-the-mile that doesn't pay around .60... I think even Western and Swift are .50-.60 now and those are rock-bottom...

Pretty sure 'two days home' = maybe a whole reset home. Which is also extremely common..

 

kllm regionals are 60-85cpm, based on length of haul, with minimum guarantees starting at $1700+ for 7 days out. otr is 60-70cpm based on experience. Both have double the hometime available of what’s “extremely common.”

 

Yeah I've vaguely argued here before that it's kind of dumb doing OTR or resets-home for 300-800 dollars more a week than what drivers who are home a lot are making.

When I was van I was kind of lazy in my searching and was doing 1100-1400(after 15% off check )a week and home around 1/4 the week..

People are still racing to live in a truck, though...