Former Accountant Looking to Get Into Trucking

Go apply to one of the many LTL companies out there. Get a job on the dock.

Get your CDL on your own. Many companies will let you go out in the yard and grind their gears on your own time for free.

Get your CDL, keep bugging them until they make you a driver, and then enjoy making good money and going home every night.

 

As far as the least amount of hours with a trainer, I would say Roehl. It's 13 days. I checked out ALL the big companies. However, Prime is near you in Scranton. BUT, they have one of the longest training periods.... and they're not small. Good luck!

 

Here's another one not bothered by low pay . The thousands like that out there are why OTR will always pay poverty level wages and BFI's will keep going to private fleets and convince them to put their safe , experienced , well paid drivers on the street and have their trailers pulled on a dedicated account .
The big problem is these people soon decide the low pay DOES bother them and they leave to be temporarily replaced by someone else thinking the same way .

 

You have a company sponsored PTDI program about 30 miles from your home base, it might pay to check into this:

http://www.aduiepyle.com/publicdocs/drivingacademy.aspx

 

The vicious cycle continues...

 

You should try Lacys express there in south jersey they hired me when I first got my license I had no experience. They are located in pedricktown nj off exit 7 on 295.

 

Lacys is a tanker company that hauls hazardous liquid cargo waste. They may be a good start or try S&J in woodstown on rt40 they do the same thing. There are way worse companies than these 2 to work 4. But they don't have the same mentality as the large bottom feeders. And you can make a pretty decent living with those 2 so try them out.

 

That's o.k. . You're on my watch list . Let's see how your career goes . . My list is pretty short . Most on it disappear within a few weeks . BTW , what does

mean ? I don't think any of us are homeless . Most of us are in mortgaged homes or a rented apartment which means we are grown up and have financial obligations . To some "at home " apparently means they haven't been weaned yet .