Want To Leave Western Express For Srt

I have been with western for 5 months and i am not very happy i dont get many miles and only get 30 cpm really want to get with srt but dont know how they treat there drivers and im wanting to know if i do leave before my full year if it will hurt me

I have been with western for 5 months and i am not very happy i dont get many miles and only get 30 cpm really want to get with srt but dont know how they treat there drivers and im wanting to know if i do leave before my full year if it will hurt me

I think you should stick it out with Western Express. It’s only been 5 months. Question: your previous post here indicate you were at Swift, what happened??

You need to establish yourself as a producer at some point. I’m my opinion 5 months isn’t long enough. You should be honest and tell people in the forum that this is your third company and now you want SRT to be your fourth

Good luck!!

I have been with western for 5 months and i am not very happy i dont get many miles and only get 30 cpm really want to get with srt but dont know how they treat there drivers and im wanting to know if i do leave before my full year if it will hurt me

The real question is why aren't you getting miles? I know WE has miles to run, I see them everywhere. Have you talked to your dispatcher and asked why you aren't getting miles? Are you being offered runs and turning them down? Are you late at shippers/receivers? What is really going on?

If you want to be productive, you are going to have to be honest with yourself about why you aren't getting loads.

There's a lot more going on here than this driver is letting on. A little over two years ago you were with CRST. A little less than two years ago you said you were with Swift. Now you've only been at Western Express a short time and you're not getting any miles.

What this tells me is that you're not getting the job done out there. You're jumping from company to company and still after all this time you can't figure out how to get miles and you want to jump companies again.

Getting good miles and great treatment from any company starts with driver performance. You have to make every single one of your appointments on time, you have to communicate well with dispatch, and you have to try to get some loads delivered or picked up early to squeeze more miles into each week.

Your problem isn't the company you're working for. Your problems are of your own doing at this point. We have drivers here that have had fantastic success with each of the companies you've worked for. So it's not the companies that are the problem.

There isn't a company in America you can go to to get great miles and great treatment if you're not performing at a high level. Read these two articles to pick up some tips on performing at a high level:

What It Takes To Be A Top Tier Driver

Top Tier Truck Drivers Operate Like Great Business Owners

Silver, this concern of yours about how the various companies treat their drivers is what's hurting you. It's defining your approach to this whole career. Apparently you didn't do well at Swift, and now your saying you "dont get many miles and only get 30 cpm" at Western Express. You are looking for the trucking company to treat you in such a way that you will do well and make good money. It's completely the wrong approach. It's a very common approach and I understand how you could develop that mentality. After all, 98% of the other truckers you come in contact with have that same attitude.

For anyone in Silver's situation, you need to ask yourself, "Why am I not turning good miles?" The answer cannot be that the company sucks. These companies are in business to make money - that's their number one objective. If they aren't making money, they will have to close up and die. So, you have to come to terms with some critical facts. They make money by moving freight, and they need to move a lot of it because the profit margins in trucking are very slim. That means they have drivers who are turning some big miles. The question of why I'm not one of them has to be answered.

I started my career at Western Express, and they ran me like crazy. Silver, you're getting three cents per mile more than I started with at Western, and yet I managed to make about 50,000 dollars my rookie year. Many of the drivers I met while there, had similar complaints to yours. But almost everytime I'd engage them in a conversation, I'd discover that same approach you have taken. They considered the company as a bad place to work. They looked at it as a place to get started, and then move on. Thay thought they were guilty of just hiring new drivers, paying them peanuts, and then hoping they'd move on once they got some experience. That way they could keep hiring new people that would work cheap.

Now, I've discovered that same outlook by my fellow drivers in my current company. It's everywhere, and it's hurting the drivers. Not only that, it's a completely bogus concept, construed by the people who never can figure out how to succeed as drivers. The way to break out of it is to start ignoring all the negative comments from other drivers. As a rookie, I kept myself away from other drivers whenever I could. I focused on learning to manage my own truck and my hours in a way that allowed me to be productive. I learned to empty myself out early and make sure my dispatcher knew I would be ready to roll once I was empty. I communicated everything on my Qualcomm with accurate ETA's and any pertinent information they would need to keep me moving. I kept to that practice until they realized I meant what I said.

Once they knew I was going to always keep my word, my world changed. I could barely keep up with what they expected of me. You have got to remove any doubt your dispatcher has in their mind about your ability to pull through in a pinch. That lingering doubt will cause you to get overlooked when it comes to load assignments. Do you realize that your dispatcher's pay is based on how productive his drivers are? At Western, that's how it works. Your dispatcher needs you to be turning big miles. There's some reason you're not getting those miles.

I want you to take some time and read these articles. Read them carefully, trying to understand the concepts portrayed in them. See if they trigger anything in you that helps you realize what you could be doing that hinders your success. I wrote them based on the things I learned while working at Western Express.

What It Takes To Be A Top Tier Driver

Can You Hang With The Big Dogs?

One Out Of Five Drivers Does A Good Job

Do I Have What It Takes?

...really want to get with srt but dont know how they treat there drivers and im wanting to know if i do leave before my full year if it will hurt me

quote> SRT will treat you the same exact way as Western, Swift, Schneider, yadda, yadda, yadda.

As Old School and Brett suggested the approach to your job needs to change. Focus on what it takes to be a top performer and adjust your outward focus on what the company isn’t doing, to focusing on what you need to-do better.

Reread all that has been written here...and above all else make it work at Western Express.

Ok to give some insight of my history the reason i left swift was because they were not paying me at all and now my problem with western is im based from ca which has the short end of the stick of the company they only do regional which the furthest they go is Wyoming i even asked to do a texas run and was told they don't go that far

Ok to give some insight of my history the reason i left swift was because they were not paying me at all and now my problem with western is im based from ca which has the short end of the stick of the company they only do regional which the furthest they go is Wyoming i even asked to do a texas run and was told they don't go that far

Swift not paying you? I’ve worked for them for almost 6 years now..,NEVER had that problem. And neither have numerous friends I have who also work for Swift.

Fiction.

Its true you can look it up they had a law suit against them for not paying there drivers

Its true you can look it up they had a law suit against them for not paying there drivers

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