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@Moosetek13

 

Most trainers are just random CDL drivers without accident in last 120 days willing to be paid extra to carry a stranger in the truck. You may imagine some grizzled "veteran" that has seen it all and done it all. It's more likely to be someone with 6-12 months experience and little else. He may even be on a cushy Dedicated account with no OTR experience to speak of.

Make sure you talk to current working drivers, doing the work you are being hired to do, before you accept any driving job. You cannot do a good job search online only (read company web page, communicate with company "recruiter"). The easy method produces an 80-90% failure rate. Failure, in this case, is leaving the industry before 12 months of experience. 80-90% failure is what newbies are experiencing now. Nothing the recruiter says should be understood as a "promise". It's a guess or a lie many times. Recruiters are car salesmen, not consumer advocates or detectives. Newbie may ask "will my truck have a swimming pool & basketball court?" Recruiter: I'll ask the company, I think those are standard in all new trucks." Newbie may ask "how much does the job pay?" Recruiter may answer "our top 50% average $78k per year".Btw, when a recruiter says "let me ask the company & get back to you", they forget to give you an answer.

 

I think @scottied67 worked for them. I also think Ashley Furniture bought Wilson Logistics 11 Western division, if not the whole company.

 

Inverters do nothing with regard to heating/cooling the truck cab. Inverters allow you to power some 120 volt devices from the truck's 12 volt electrical system. Lot's of drivers will not work at a company that doesn't have APUs or at least allow unlimited engine idling for AC. APUs are ALMOST standard in the industry, but we are in a serious freight recession so every cost saving method is being used. APUs use less fuel than idling, but and APU can cost over $10k for each truck. Current working drivers at the company & account can give you an answer about Swift APU. It would be highly unusual for any job driving a day cab (no sleeper compartment, meaning home-daily work) to have an APU, in case you find one of those jobs.

 

Truck Driving jobs

 

Yes, in Missouri.
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wilsonlogistics.com
Wilson Logistics
3769 E Evergreen St, Springfield, MO 65803

 

Our trucks have OptiIdle which lets you idle within certain temp ranges.
In general it won't idle between about 35 degrees to around 70 degrees, but below or above those temps it will.
OptiIdle also will turn on the engine if the battery voltage gets too low.

 

not being super new, As for van hazmat i didn’t do alot of super bad, totes of hydrogen peroxide, fireworks, a bunch, stuff like that.

Tankers you get into chemicals, hydrochloric ancid, phosphoric acid(which are also in some sodas) and such, unless food grade then alcoholic beverages and such for flammable.

I’ve hauled some super bad things in tankers, when it hits air it’ll react and turn to a gas cloud, and they don’t want to tell you technical names so it’ll be some long drawn out name.
Hauling something like furfural.

I can remember that name cause i hauled a ton of it.

But having haz, it’ll open more loads such as paints, pesticides, and things vs DH back, as long as they pay extra for hazmat hauling.

 

You mention military experience. I'd also suggest looking into the VR&E program...it was pretty easy to get it going and as long as a trucking school is on their approved list, they'll pay for it.

This way you can seamlessly get your endorsements and avoid an automatic restriction on your CDL. Perhaps most importantly you can go to a starter company without owing any amount of time. Prime was a good starter experience for me so I stayed for a year anyway, but there's peace of mind knowing that you can leave without owing anything if a company is really not a good fit.