Decent Companies for Recent Driving School Grads

Watkins Shepard has a terminal in Myrtle, MS and has an above average reputation...However, you have to have the confidence to be able to go out on your own right away, no trainer time is given...

 

Alot of very fine companies hire inexperienced drivers !!!!

 

do some research, find out what it is YOU want out of a company, what is most important to you.

Hometime....pay....equipment....location....what do YOU want.

Research it, then make an educated decision on which company to drive for. No one here can tell you which is the best for you.

The best company for you to drive for is the one that fits your needs.

 

You're not thinking here . You don't want that info posted . It will just increase the number of applicants you have to compete with .
My cousin ALMOST retired from the Air Force . He was on the fire crash crew at Kadena for years . When he had 16 years in he wanted to marry a Japanese woman . Air Force said no . So he didn't reenlist , came home , brought her here and married her . Then he got a Civil Service job as a fireman at Hanscom Field .
Veterans get preference for Federal jobs . http://www.usajobs.gov/

 

A lot of it depends on what you want out of it. Do you want a diverse company where you'll have other options if you decide what you started off doing isn't your cup of tea? You mentioned Roehl, which has refrigerated vans, dry vans, and a flatbed division (which also runs some RGNs). So you have options there.
You also mentioned you wanted to run refrigerated trailers. I hear good things about Stevens Transport, but all they run is refrigerated vans, so you don't really have that diversity there. One thing I do like about them is that they don't run I70 west of the Denver Metro area (they say west of I25, but I'm sure they'd let you run the last few miles of the Denver area which are west of 25). Which is good because there are a lot of drivers out there who don't know how to take a downgrade, and these aren't people you want running that road. One company in particular seems to have a serious problem with this from what I've observed on my runs from Co. Springs to Kremmling and back, but I won't mention names, because I'm sure the folks at C.R. England won't appreciate it.
Watkins-Shephard was mentioned earlier, and they do have a good reputation, but they don't do trainer time, so you have to pretty certain you're ready to go as is if you're going to apply with them.
With any company, it's going to be a gamble. If you go to a training company, and you get a trainer who does it halfassed, you're not going to learn what you're supposed to. You have to be able to identify these instances and insist on a different trainer if you want to be prepared when you get your own truck and go solo. I started with the flatbed division at Swift, and you should have some idea of their reputation. But, I was fortunate enough to have a good trainer, and I did alright for myself there. I was content when I left the company on account of being activated and deployed. Some people have had much different experiences there. And it's going to be the same story with pretty much any company.

 

Not sure what your story has to do with his questions.

Also, I don't believe that story for a second. I served in the US Air Force and as far as I knew you could marry whoever the hell you wanted to. The military does not say who you can or cannot marry. Sorry, I call BS on that one. Nice irrelevant story though.