Western Express
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Thanks for sharing your experience! W.E. has been on my short list for a while now of companies I'm interested in driving for.
Just a perspective here about Western Express from a recently hired company driver. After flatbed training for 6 weeks I recovered a new truck and have since been on my own for a few weeks. Before applying here I read some good about this company and a lot of bad. I have no complaints at all about these folks. I get all the freight and miles I can legally have. The people are helpful and smart. They say I get paid .36 per mile, but it must be a sliding pay scale because I get a lot more than that and the tarp and stop pay on top of that. I rarely hear from them unless it's about an ETA and usually have a pre-plan load assignment before I get to the first consignee. It could be that I have an effective DM. Anyway thought I'd share this in case some recent grad or anybody else was interested.
Just an update here. They started me at .40 and I was hired out of Florida. With tarp pay and tuition reimbursement it comes to like .44 per mile and a person will be able to run increasingly more miles as they get faster at securing and learning other things.
Consignee:
The customer the freight is being delivered to. Also referred to as "the receiver". The shipper is the customer that is shipping the goods, the consignee is the customer receiving the goods.
Dm:
Dispatcher, Fleet Manager, Driver Manager
The primary person a driver communicates with at his/her company. A dispatcher can play many roles, depending on the company's structure. Dispatchers may assign freight, file requests for home time, relay messages between the driver and management, inform customer service of any delays, change appointment times, and report information to the load planners.New Reply:
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Just a perspective here about Western Express from a recently hired company driver. After flatbed training for 6 weeks I recovered a new truck and have since been on my own for a few weeks. Before applying here I read some good about this company and a lot of bad. I have no complaints at all about these folks. I get all the freight and miles I can legally have. The people are helpful and smart. They say I get paid .36 per mile, but it must be a sliding pay scale because I get a lot more than that and the tarp and stop pay on top of that. I rarely hear from them unless it's about an ETA and usually have a pre-plan load assignment before I get to the first consignee. It could be that I have an effective DM. Anyway thought I'd share this in case some recent grad or anybody else was interested.
Consignee:
The customer the freight is being delivered to. Also referred to as "the receiver". The shipper is the customer that is shipping the goods, the consignee is the customer receiving the goods.
Dm:
Dispatcher, Fleet Manager, Driver Manager
The primary person a driver communicates with at his/her company. A dispatcher can play many roles, depending on the company's structure. Dispatchers may assign freight, file requests for home time, relay messages between the driver and management, inform customer service of any delays, change appointment times, and report information to the load planners.