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Originally Posted by Sans Argonauts
I drove for USX for almost a year, before I made one of my intermittent career-jumps out of the truck for awhile. I can't complain at all. My dispatcher was great. Never had any problems with the truck. Most of the docks were actual distribution centers or places actually desgined for 53-foot trailers and not some metal shed out in the boondocks behind somebody's house like some of the other carriers I drove for. Got home like clockwork every two weeks and then had 4 days off after each trip.
Sometimes the miles weren't the best... but I dealt with it. Got out West... Arizona, NM, Cali... just about every trip out. But that was just my experience. Other drivers used to complain about just running east of the Mississippi, etc. But then lots of drivers complain just to hear their lips flap sometimes. As Thoreau wrote somewhere in Walden "The fault-finder will find fault even in Paradise."
Like any company.... it is what you make it.
I also agree with what the other driver said. If I was ever to go back OTR, it would be with USX again. They treated me good.
Pretty much my experience with them. Heck, when I was going to leave them, someone even called me up and talked to me. They asked personally if everything was ok and wanted to keep me on. They understood I had to leave because of hurricane katrina. I brought the truck back for them, right where I got it and they payed my bus ride home. My dispatcher was just a great guy, he was just cool, simple as that. Also I still, to this day talk to my trainer from USX, we actually had a good time out there.