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swift has a terminal in lathrop ca. off i-5

 

Better response might have been thank you do you know of any others?

Also using Google and city state zip code is very useful in finding g whatever you're looking for.

 

Lots of good options for your area.

 

I know this won't answer your question directly but I would hit this thing they call the internet, make a list of companies around you and call them to ask them directly. This way you can note it in your research as a bonifide source to help you with your grant.

But I got to tell you something else which may not be ok with some - there really isn't a demand for professional drivers as people are led to believe. It is a false demand that has been created to make it appear there is a need. In truth we have a gluttony of drivers and professional drivers out there. The jobs that many companies are offering are entry level jobs to keep seats filled not with professional drivers but people that they can use to shift the liability onto when there are "issues" with enforcement or accidents. One thing that has fed this problem is this WIA grant program and it has been a boom for training companies and marginal companies alike, putting people in the seat on the tax payers dime.

What I have wondered about is the failure rate with drivers who got a CDL, had some employment but then left for one or another reason with money provided by these grant programs.

I wish you luck.

 

There really is a shortage of truck drivers...provided you look at it from the proper view to BELIEVE in the driver shortage. There is a severe shortage of people that are willing to sit on the road for weeks at a time, doing what someone else tells them to do 24 hours a day for embarrassingly low wages. In that sense there is a driver shortage. The answer for the big fleets has been to create a shortage and then they went to the government to have trucking declared as a critical shortage field. This action opened the way for the big operators to offer H1B visas to foreigners to come to this country and sit on the road for weeks at a time for those embarrassingly low wages and think they are getting a deal. This keeps the wages low, the driver shortage intact allowing certain people to clean up at the expense of everyone else. Until people wise up and stop working for those big carriers that are doing this, the practice is going to go on into perpetuity and there will always be a driver shortage.

 

Do you have a link that lists the number of H1B visas issued to foreign nationals to drive trucks in the USA?

 

Swift tried that one time, even going so far as to set up a school in England. It backfired because the feds said too many unemployed Americans could fill those jobs.

 

Also, H1B visa is a non-immigrant specialty occupation visa that usually requires a bachelor's degree or higher.
For any type of visa, a company has to sponsor the applicant and the applicant has to be in his or her home country to apply...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-2B_visa
H2B Visa

H2B is a non-immigrant, skilled or unskilled, non-agricultural visa. A H2B visa is mainly issued for the Service Industry, Manufacturing, Tourism, Trucking, and Construction etc. Once again seasonal demands determine placement periods and can be for a maximum of ten months. H2B workers have to pay for their own accommodation (normally $50 - $75 per week if supplied by the employer). Your transportation cost does not get reimbursed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa
H1B Visa

H1B is a non-immigrant, specialty occupational visa. It requires a bachelor's degree or higher (or its equivalent) or 10 years relevant experience in specific specialty occupations. It is normally valid for 3 years, extendable for another 3 not to exceed 6 years.