Hello my name is Mike Hurst and I am new to this forum. I am currently trying to get into trucking school here in Ohio. I was given this interview form to research the trucking Industry and would greatly appriciate if someone would reply with the answers to the questions below. Thanks!
- Employee Name (optional)
- Company Working for
- What are the minimum requirements for this position?
- What training did you recieve?
- What are yourthree main job duties?
- Describe a typical days work?
- What do you like best about your job?
- What do you like least about your job?
- What are the drawbacks and/orr risks in entering this field as a career?
- How many hours per day/week dou you work?
- Are your hours flexible?
- Other Comments?
Truck Driver Interview
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by mhurst, Mar 6, 2010.
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1. vinsanity
2. a typical training company
3. a cdl and a pulse
4.28 day training period (plus the cdl school I attended)
5. pick up and deliver on time, don't wreck the truck
6. eat, sleep and drive
7. the illusion of freedom
8. dealing with customers and the corporate bean counters
9. low starting pay, risk of wasting your time if you don't know what you are getting into
10. 24/7 on the truck, typically work 10-14 hours at a time
11. not really
12. I answered these somewhat tongue in cheek but the truth is in there -
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7. Payday
8. Work
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- Ironpony
- Prime Inc.
- Too many to list here - google the company name. Good driving record, BMI below whale, enough intellegence to fill out the app...
- I went to a third-party school, but its a training company so you can get your CDL through them. 60,000 miles with an experienced trainer, then another 20,000 miles solo probationary period. That's three to four months depending on home time, holidays, freight, etc.
- Pick up and deliver ON TIME, good fuel mileage (above a 6.75 mpg average,) drive the truck, don't make a mess of the freight.
- Get up, drive the truck, avoid bears, don't kill anyone, don't get killed, don't crash the truck.
- The scenery, a great FM, much better than average company paycheck.
- Morons on 4-wheels trying to commit suicide in front of my truck, not having a load (doesn't happen often,) other so-called professional drivers dumping garbage and pee-bottles in parking lots, self-professed experts on driving a truck who have never driven a truck over-regulating an already over-regulated industry, doctors who don't make enough money deciding that every truck driver has sleep apnea so they can make more money.
- Death, your friends disowning you because they think "truck driver" is a disease.
- As many as it takes, to the limits imposed by self-professed experts on driving a truck who have never driven a truck.
- Are you kidding - this is the blue-collar world!
- Wouldn't trade it for another white-collar desk job behind a computer screen - ever.
Last edited: Mar 6, 2010
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Ok I will play
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