New CDL Advice

Marten and Crete are the type outfits you go to to get experience, not after you have experience. Although, there is a pilgrim on this board that routinely jumps from one crap mega to another other other year or so. Don’t be that guy. You life will just be one, curmudgeonly miserable waste.


@Chinatown can steer you to some starter outfits near your location.

 

Bd&b Haulin
1421 Greenpond Rd
Fountain Inn, SC 29644-7412
Looking for a local class a cdl driver in fountain inn sc. pay every week. monday Through thursday and half days on Friday.
Phone number on this website:
Bd&b Haulin USDOT 3232189 - Fountain Inn, South Carolina Trucking Company (quicktransportsolutions.com)

 

the Duncan area has a bunch of companies. just google it.

 

I remember an ad a couple years ago with this company for local/regional driving.
Carolina Chem-Strip of SC
chem-strip.com
300 Hughes St, Fountain Inn, SC 29644

 

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Hiring Greenville, SC drivers.

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Try this one out of Knoxville, TN. It's unclear whether they hire students but it says they offer mentorship from experienced drivers. Even if they don't take you right out of school, you can keep them in your back pocket for when you get experienced since they have running lanes you'd prefer.

 

Most people sitting in 3 week CDL classes will wind up working for the 1-3 trucking companies that the CDL school invites to present their company to the students. You need to specifically narrow down what are your personal requirements for doing this job. Decide things like can you stay away from home for a week, a few weeks, a month, etc, or do you need to be home every few days. I'm not asking what are you most comfortable with, but what can YOU, knowing your history and your behavior, what can you do for the next year? You will also need to balance one of your preferences with other preferences. For example, if you would like to be home daily and you need to make $900 per week but you have an offer that keeps you out 2 weeks and current drivers, NOT THE COMPANY WEBSITE OR RECRUITER, are making $1200 per week average is that enough extra money to justify YOU staying away from home longer. Avoid CR England no matter what. Avoid considering leasing a truck, no matter what and especially if they claim you will make a lot more money doing it compared to being a company driver. 80-90% of brand new CDL drivers leave the industry well before 12 months of experience. Mostly I believe they fail at trucking because they put in almost no research, they believe every lie the recruiter tells them and they dismiss every warning about trucking because in their previous non-trucking jobs it's not possible for an employer to do some of the things they can do in trucking.

It's a job with a ton of responsibility and ofen very little guidance. It is NOT like every retail job, fast-food job, and some office jobs where you watch a week of videos just to learn how to wipe your own rear-end. Often you will get little more than an address, and appointment time, and told to hurry up. Anything else you need to know you better ask and keep asking until you get the answer. And you better never get a ticket or have even the smallest oopsie unless you like making this job a lot more difficult for you and put you in contact with a LOT more dishonest people. IMO, the majority of new CDL holders enter trucking with the attitude they will be OK if they just hit a "normal" amount of objects with their truck and only get a "normal" amount of tickets in their truck. It's more helpful if you assume even one ticket or one "oopsie" hitting something with your truck is MAYBE the end of trucking for you. If you have that attitude you will be more careful and not careless and smartphone focused like the new drivers seems to be. It's EASY to kill someone by just acting like a "normal" driver of the 4-wheelers around you. If your driving habits in your car NOW are not up to getting approval by a cop that would be in your passenger seat, you may want to think carefully if you even should be driving a truck. Trucks are heavy and huge. Getting a ticket, some of them, isn't going to end your career but it will mean you may have to work with sharks and your life will be much more difficult than if you keep your record 100% clean. You can only keep it clean with lots of attention, good habits, and some luck. It's your most important job to keep your records clean. The industry will be perfectly happy to replace you the MOMENT you are slightly more expensive or difficult than the next newbie with a brand new CDL.

Avoid CR England, no matter what. I would avoid all refrigerated carriers because their freight is very often much more hassle than dry van freight that doesn't need temperature controlled trailer (reefer trailers). I would try to get into tanker as that is the best part of the industry, IMO. I retired after 28 years and some of the best customers I ever dealt with were customers for the HazMat tanker company I worked for. Most customers treat truck drivers bringing them their freight like a stray dog, at best. Tanker customers treat most drivers like humans and partners in their job. Your results are based largely on what research you do and the effort and attitude you bring to the job. Be better than the scum you will see in some of the trucks on the road. I got several breaks in trucking because I was often confused for some new office worker or management type and not a truck driver. You don't have to look/smell like a hobo to drive a truck.