I waiting to be hooked up with a trainer. Can any shed any light on the company? Good, Bad or Indifferent.

 

As long as you dont take 7 passangers with you in Memphis you will be fine.

Actually A company named Liberate Technologies is trying to buy USA TRUCK right now. Which is pretty confusing because Liberate is going through a lot of its own financial troubles right now. If the buy out goes through, im not sure what that would mean for USA truck.

 

i bet that deal gets put on hold mayb until usa is about to go bancrupt from the people they kill every year not only this one.
you can always go to work for usa if i was you id find another carrier to start with but wait its to late. you are waiting for a trainer. these r questions you schould have asked before. now yur stuck their for the time being finish your training serve your 6 months and move on.

 

Got my start with them back in the day. Had a cool trainer, and enjoyed training with him. We were on the "Toyota" dedicated fleet out of Georgetown (Lexington) Kentucky. Gotta say that I made a lot of money with them. And I ran A LOT of miles with them. Be aware (i.e. BEWARE), however, they kind of take the Monty Python attitude about logbooks and running legal ..." nudge-nudge-wink-wink-say-no-more say-no-more" ... as long as it looks good when you send it in.

DO be prepared to get run regularly far beyond your legal limits. There is no such thing as "Out of Hours" with USA Truck.

DO kiss mama and the kids goodbye. 2 weeks out, a weekend home, my A$$. Try three-four weeks out, and 36 hours home... and that after you have already run dirty a day and a half without sleep from the East Coast just to get there. DO be prepared to NEVER get home when you request to be.

DO be prepared to have them slap "Incident" reports on your DAC if you so much as blow a tire on the road. The first person they connect you with is Safety.

DO be prepared to get your leg humped by maintenance if you go into the Van Buren, Memphis, or Shreveport terminals. I.E., "Your truck needs "Serviced" lets have you sit watching TV in the "lounge" 19 hours while we do it." Doesn't matter if the load still has to be 500 miles away for delivery tomorrow morning, they expect you to run all night to get there after sitting up all day.

DO be prepared for docks that range from your usual Distribution Centers to a metal shed out in the boondocks behind some guys house. I can guarantee you, you will have some real humdingers for docks sometimes.

DO be prepared to sometimes LUMP your own loads. USA Truck DOES use its drivers to unload from time to time.

DO be prepared to regularly go into NYC. Once USA sends you into NYC once (Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, etc.) and you get out alive without running their truck up under a low overpass or crunching somebody's car, you effectively become their "go-to" guy for NYC loads.

DO be prepared for at least 60% of your loads going up and down the I-95 corridor. If you don't LOVE the East Coast, another company might be better.

DO be prepared to go to Canada.

Other than those few things, USA Truck was a real barrel of laughs. :wink:


...and oh.. Lord Above, how could I HAVE ever forgotten?!?!

You just gotta LOVE a truck governed down to 63 miles an hour!!!!

YEAH!!!!!!!! :lol:

 

thats funny. surprise heres what you signed up for rich501.
thats pretty cool sans argonauts being 100% truthfull.
but hey rich some carriers will hire with as little as 3 months exp.
so you do have some hope in sight even though this is what usa does. put up with it get your experience and find a new home

 

:lol: :lol: :lol: ROTFLMAO :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

Thanks for the insight. I got a call from them last night. There busing my butt to Van Buren tonight--- no trainers in my area--- to spend the weekend in some flea bag motel. Let the jouney being.