Best Trucking Company for a NETTTS Student?

If you've been reading the posts for 6 months haven't you seen the posts by NETTS graduates unable to get hired by any OTR company ?

 

Swift does take drivers that have completed CDL training outside of the company provided training as well as other companies.

 

If you want plenty of OTR and miles you might want to check out Stevens, Reefer Companies tend to have longer loads. The only drawbacks to tempature controled stuff is that the noise from the trailer is irratating and the long wait for loads at grocery warehouses. I know them boys at Stevens stay out 5 weeks. Me personnaly being married with children want to be home everyday so OTR isn't for me, but different strokes for different folks.
The draw back to CRST is that they are mostly teams, and you get stuck with some butt head for a codriver. Even if you take a codriver that you think you know, after being in the truck with them for 24/7 x 3, that could grate on your last nerve.
Don't mean to bash CRST or push Stevens just trying to help you make an Informed decision. All the info I posted I got from theese boards, never been OTR myself

 

Fact.........this is a VERY slow time of year
Fact.........you live in bad area for driving jobs

Fact.........you might want to take what IS available, and soon

Best Of Luck to you !!!!!!

 

I was the Director of Training at the Quincy and then later the Brockton Campus back in 1988/89. We had recruiters from various OTR trucking companies visit our classes, signing on future graduates for extended training with their companies.
I'm sure they are still bringing in recruiters from these same companies, so I don't see what your problem in getting a job with any of these companies is, unless you think you can by-pass the extended training and hop in a cab and roll with top pay. Sorry, but that's not going to happen. No company, Fleet owner or O/O is going to throw a rookie in a $100,000.00 rig, pay you top dollar and hope for the best.
You'll have to learn to be patient and climb the ladder like everyone else. You have to crawl before you can walk. Good luck.
And another thing, as you should very well know, you have up to 1 year after graduation to use their services for job search and placement.

 

CRYLOZEUS:

CRYLOZEUS: I see that you had 160 hrs. of classroom & range time. How many hrs. of behind the wheel driving time did you have to have. I went to NECC in Norfolk, NE. we did all that you did & had to have 50 hrs of actural behind the wheel driving time. plus 1500 miles of road time. We went to Rome Ga. for our otr driving time.

 

If their placement had any value he wouldn't be here along with the other NETTS graduates looking for help , would he ?

 

Read his post carefully. He's looking to make top dollar and get his own assigned rig right off the bat and that's not going to happen.
When you go for placement, all they or anybody else in this profession can do is have you fill out their apps. and get interviewed. It's up to you and the trucking company whether to take that job or not. Practically every graduate from a Trucking school will have to go through further training with any trucking company they sign up with. Those are the facts.

 

An interview is not "placement ". Placement should being placing in a driver's seat , not placing in a chair for an interview . Just another example of how CDL mills mislead and exploit disadvantaged people .
Students are "placed " for interviews with those carriers that have less drivers than they did last year but they keep on recruiting to replace yesterday's wannabes with today's wannabes .