New Trucker (Student Graduate)

Watkins-Shepard - 10 days with a trainer & that's all you need. You can have more time if you request it.

TWT Refrigerated Services
System Transport
KKW Trucking
Halvor Lines
Melton Truck Lines
Gardner Trucking
Reddaway
YRC Freight
Pride Transport
Navajo Express
Central Oregon Truck Company
Leavitt's Freight Service
United Van Lines-Safeway Moving

Note - Ignore any "Experience Required" and submit an application anyway. Most have online applications. All companies are hurting for drivers & if they see your application, they may just bend the hiring rules and put you to work.

One new CDL grad just got on with Leavitt's Freight Service.

 

Remember that every one has a different prospective on companies so advice is always slanted a bit and definitely biased. Rule 1. to quit prior to 13 months is not good. It leaves the ground work for you being a job hopper unless you have solid reasons for leaving. Grass is greener is not good.
Rule 2 and probably the most important is take pictures of the truck assigned to you before you leave the property. Inside and out. Every thing . Seats for cigarette burns, body damage, mirror damage, holes in dash. tires and tread depth and dot numbers. This is to CYA. New drivers tend to be screwed over more than experienced driver and this will help protect you. Do the same when you give it back to them.

 

Do you want to run OTR? If you want to run local the company I work for will hire you provided you pass a short drive test. You'd start out hauling tomatoes, then almonds then if you are still around they will train you to pull tanks next liquid season. Stick around long enough and you could go OTR hauling fertilizer, food grade, reefer or fuel oil.

Best of all, no trainer except when liquid season starts and then you'd only be on the truck 3 days. Home every night. Pay is percentage of load.

 

I've heard Conway is a good company

 

What company is this? I just graduated from CDL school, and am having a hard time trying to decide on a company.....I know I don't really want to do flatbed, too old for all that, drybox is fine, refer, tanker (already have my tanker endorsement, no hazmat yet). I live in the southeast, and am looking for a good company to start with. OTR is ok, but Regional would be better to start.
Thanks!

 

Sunstate Carriers does Florida/Canada turnarounds. One driver posted he's home weekends.