Total Transportation of MS reviews

So here's what you want to know. If you are a new driver total can be a great start. They will put you in orientation for a week, 70 bucks a day with hotel and full meals. After that it's 200 hours of training at 70 a day and 10 hours of backing, about a month depending on how hard your trainer pushes it.

Pay is .36 staring so there are far worse companies to start with. When i started I was pulling average of 3200 miles a week , possibly a little more. I wanted to keep busy and had a great fleet manager. My best week was about 3750, with a 34. They do a lot of drop and hooks but most of it seems pretty random. Some weeks I'd have the same trailer for 5 days and would end up pulling the full 14. Now I pull for Amazon and although they can be sketchy with load cancels at times you still get layover and load cancels. I run less than my old average but am on dedicated runs in the south.

It all boils down to your fleet manager(if your FM cant keep you as busy as youd like they allow switching). If they are decent they will keep you more busy than you might want to be. I stayed out for 3 months at a time for the first year to catch up on bills and it worked pretty well as OTR. If you're a new driver I'd recommend it you just gotta remind yourself, just like any job you take, your going to have weeks where the truck needs service of a trailer gets denied and needs to be patched. Best of luck, if you have more questions give a shout.

I see their trucks running around the Southeast quite often, they aren't governed at 65mph and are usually Cascadias in good shape, with a nice size sleeper.

You can tell a lot about a company by the condition of their equipment and theirs is in good shape.

I'm about 2/3 of the way through training with Total to become a team driver. The program is as advertised, no BS. One of my classmates in Total orientation worked for Amazon Fulfillment before getting his CDL and he chose Total because he questioned many of the drivers from the various companies that deliver to Amazon and he said the Total drivers had fewer complaints. If you are Hazmat and run the average team miles of 20 to 23 thousand a month you and your team mate will make $6000 each. I'm pretty early in the process, but I don't regret anything about joining Total and from what I have seen so far it is a decent place.

I've been with Total for 4 years now. Came straight out of CDL school. I've been very happy here. It has it's ups and downs, good and bad. But overall I would say it's a very good place. Anyone who comes in with a chip on their shoulder or an attitude...won't last. You definitely have to "earn" your place. But once you do, they take very good care of you. Honestly, if I ever leave Total, it'll be a sad day for me. A lot of those guys feel like family to me.

Training has undergone an overhaul in the last two years so I can't be too specific about it without risking giving you misinformation. 

Regarding Chinatowns suggestion of Abilene, I second giving them a look as well. I've heard pretty good things from most all of their drivers that I've encountered.

I work at total great company plenty of miles and decent pay new trucjs but the shops need more work though the jackson yard has the best shop while the others not so much