Trusting driver/managers

I started working for this company in July 2018. If you are looking into working for this company, I would advise you NOT to. Unless this is your last resort, keep looking. I came straight from cdl school to work for USXpress. I thought it was a good company since the school had a contract with them. Usxpress was telling me all these good things about their company and why I should choose them. Most of it is a big fat lie. They tell you a starting wage but once you actually start working the pay is not enough to live off of. I was only making about $500 per week driving 2,000+ miles and I was away from home for 3+ weeks at a time. I was earning more delivering newspapers and I was home every day. If you don't have experience and you are driving solo, then plan on having a lot of break downs and little pay for those days. They pay $50 a day for beak down after 24 hours and no break down pay on Sundays. Out of the 4-5 months I worked for them, I was broken down for about 3 full weeks. Good fleet managers are hard to get. Night and weekend dispatch have no clue what they are doing. Some fleet managers wait hours to send you load information. So plan on having a lot of down time. It took them 3 months to find me a team mate. Once they did, I was seated in a newer truck. Unfortunately, the steer tires needed to be replaced and I was stuck at a terminal for another couple days not working. They brought the truck into the shop and never replaced or fixed anything I requested. I did not feel comfortable driving that truck in snow with crappy tires. I was fed up and finally left the company that same day the truck came out of the shop. I'm writing this to help someone out. I thought trucking would be a good career move but NOT with USXpress. It will hurt your wallet.

I never made any mistakes other than letting a dispatcher tell me to run my load legal or not! Huh Steve!!!

If its under new ownership as I was told it could be good but if not I would not recommend this company to anyone