It is great to finally hear some good info on a great company. I am new to this class A thing. I have just been driving motor coach tour buses for the last 3 years. I am very determend to find the best fit company for me. I have apps. in at schneider, wil-trans, millis, and central refridgerated. all offer classes for me to convert to class a, but with wil-trans, it is through c1 correct, Also I will have IN license, how do they work that if the school is in Mo. Or can I take the class at Indy? Can anyone offer suggestions about my decision of what company to go with, and why. Thanks for the good posts, and be safe....

Their website states that someone who just completed CDL school will go OTR with an experienced trainer:
5,000 miles solo
30,000 miles training team
65,000 miles team driving

Could someone tell me what that means? Driving 5000 miles with a trainer would be great, if this is an either/or type of deal. Driving 100,000 miles with anyone would put this company off my list.

Nevermind.

After actually reading this thread, rather than just skimming through and taking things at face value, this company certainly is not for me.

Good attempt, though.

I don't get the part about the trainer/trinee thing. I need to call 'em again and figure this out, no way I want someone with no experience trying to train me, from the conversations I've had with recruiting that has not come up and neither has the teaming part, need to look into this a bit more.

Ok anyone have anything else to add before I contact my recruiter again and get this thing done? Only thing I may have to do is move my start date back a couple weeks. So far nothing here to really discourage me which is a good thing. I'm excited to get back out there....

UMM Mikes Chick you say he finshed his school in april?? and now he is training?????

My Wife and I have been with Wil-Trans for 3yrs. We completed a lease with them, then went company drivers for a while. They are a great company to work for. We left Wil-trans a week or so ago because although we like the personal relationship we have with a small company like Wil-Trans we needed the big company perks. Like good health ins. for example. I dont know alot about their training program. They didnt have one when we started. Anything els anyone wants to know I will be happy to answer.

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Were you getting plenty of miles? Do solo drivers get good miles? Wil Trans may be a small company but they are some how connected with Prime. Can you explain how this goes?

Thanks

If you work for Wil-Trans I suggest that you lease a truck from them. You will make more money. The loads you get there are Prime loads and are based on 72% of the gross pay. NOT miles. If you choose to be a company driver with Wil-Trans you will not be givin loads to give you miles. You will be givin loads based on DOLLARS. Thats the name of the game. Sometimes, Most times shorter loads pay more. Teams get to go to Ca. alot. Solo's do more midwest and northeast. Loads going to the northeast pay great and comeing out pay ####.

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Wil-Trans keeps their lease ops in the Northeast region of the country, fuel prices are higher, tolls in every direction. Mikes wife is right and wrong when she said I was an O/O. I was a L/O with Wil-Trans and when your bringing home $1,000 per week and $150 of goes to tolls, tolls become very expensive in your daily operations. When Mikes wife said her husband gets paid for all miles and runs east and west, I believe her husband is a trainee and driving with a company trainer. Her statement makes sense, Wil-Trans is basically on Primes system, the owner of Wil-Trans used to be a dispatcher for Prime and he mirrored Primes success by following their lead. Keep your company trucks in the cheaper cost of operations lanes. i.e. Midwest, southern routes have no tolls and cheaper fuel costs...L/O in the northeast are paying tolls, and very expensive fuel prices.
I see alot of questions about training with Wil-Trans. Its basically a mirror image of Primes training scenario...You are in a training mode for 15 months (meaning you are with a trainer for 15 months before being allowed to go solo), during this 15 months you are dispatched like a team but paid trainee pay (I dont know how much this is, but the industry norm is 10 cents per mile), now being a team has its own problems, your co-drivers problems become your problems, i.e. hometime, what if they live in Dallas and you live in Indianapolis, tough to take hometime at the same time, there medical problems become yours, doctor appts etc. Fights with spouse, attitudes, hygiene, all of this weighs in on a team operation..Personally, 15 months as a trainee, trainee pay, doesnt sound like a good choice to me