What's it like to team for USX?

I'm in a CDL class atm, and have been thinking about signing on with USX since one of their recruiters came into class. Just going off their CPM pay, they seem somewhere between subpar and crappy for solo driving, but their team rates are awesome. I've done a little research on here, and have gotten mixed reviews on them, but it's hard to listen to all the bad reviews when many of them admit to being fired or quitting because of "a bad week". Anyway, when it comes to their Teams division, they pay 48 CPM (44 without hazmat endorsement) after their 8 weeks training necessary for student drivers. For first year, that's amazing. If anyone knows a better company that hires students for that money, tell me where to sign up! I'm just worried this is a strong case of being "too good to be true". Insight from any USX drivers is appreciated, but I'm really more interested in hearing from and about their team divisions. I don't believe they can lie about paying 48 CPM, right? Is there some kind of "gimmick"? Do they do a lot of haz mat, and is that the reason for the pay, because all their CPM rates are conditional of a haz mat endorsement. Their recruiters claim 5K to 6K Miles per week average, which seems standard. Even 4000 miles at 48 CPM comes out to $960 after the split.

Seriously, is this just too good to be true? 48CPM for teams pretty much right out of school, how bad could it be?

 

So, you're happy there. Am I correct in my assumption this company is better for teams than solo, because I haven't seen any of the recent complaint threads here be from Teams. I'm waiting for someone to tell me to run away cuz of some terrible something, lol.

 

Well, that answers my question about team pairing. I have a partner interested in doing this, but you never know what might happen.

Also, gratz to both of you guys and good luck. I'm hoping to be in your shoes soon, so please be sure to update here or in another thread how you guys are doing there. I'm still waiting to hear if they can make 48 cpm not worth it...

 

Thanks for the post Flood. Haven't heard anything bad yet, lol. The hazmat thing is interesting, possibly getting more miles with one. I passed the endorsement test when I went and got my permit. Actually, I got every endorsement I would need, except Metal Coil (NY only endorsement for flatbedding). I love living in New York... Anyway, I guess I have to do fingerprinting for hazmat? I already did a drug test as part of my DOT physical before permit testing. Guess I should check with my school about it.

What would you say you average on miles for a week? Any idea of an average load length, mainly, do you get mostly long or do you still get short stuff on occasion?

How about Team applications? Is it easier to get accepted when you have a partner? Do you hear a lot of stories about only one partner of a pair being accepted into the company? Is it easy to switch to solo if something happens to your partner, or if you get "sick of" that partner?

Anything you could say that would make me believe this isn't the best thing I could do as a no experience student driver, cuz it beats out the competition pay wise considerably it seems.