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Rookie driver looking for flatbed company that hires out of TX

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  1. Jan 19, 2012 #1
    Blyth

    Blyth Light Load Member

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    Does anybody know of any flatbed companies that hire recent graduates out of Texas. I'm basically live in the dead center of the state. Anybody got any ideas..... other than Swift?

    thanks
     
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  3. Jan 19, 2012 #2
    Blyth

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    I should add that I'm not interested in Maverick either. I prefer to avoid driving automatics as much as possible.
     
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    2009GMC

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    Try McElroy. I think they have a terminal in Texas.
     
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  5. Jan 19, 2012 #4
    mgfg

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    An excellent decsion. Auto-shifts are another part of the "dumbing down" process of the industry. EVERY new driver needs to know hot to and be proficient in working a manual transmission.
     
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  7. Jan 19, 2012 #5
    Blyth

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    TY mgfg... I agree... and that is one of the main reasons I haven't called maverick.
     
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  8. Jan 19, 2012 #6
    OpenRoadDreamer

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    Prime hires out of Texas. We have a lot of freight coming out of there too.
     
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  9. Jan 20, 2012 #7
    BAYOU

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    all my new drivers start out in auto shift trucks i hired a new guy from melton he lasted 5 weeks before he missed a gear and over reved the motor and droped a valve never again
     
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  10. Jan 20, 2012 #8
    Oscar the KW

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    Set the rev limiter in the ecm, problem solved.
     
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  11. Jan 20, 2012 #9
    Blyth

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    Prime has a flatbead division?
     
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  12. Jan 20, 2012 #10
    Blyth

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    Seems that if you are paying attention to what you are doing you would know that you weren't in gear when you started pressing the gas pedal.... Coming from Melton, I thought they ran standards?
     
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