My adventures with Western Pacific Truck School Modesto CA

Hey blue have you tried central ref? I hear they take pretty good care of their husband n wife teams. Watkins is a good company too. I don't know how they are with their teams though, AT could probably tell you more about that.

 

So I guess my interview today went pretty well. I sat down with the guy and talked about what little experience I have driving and then he kind of explained the job to me. After about 5-10 minutes he said he was going to go see if he had a driver who could give me a drive test. He came back and took me out into the yard and introduced me to one of their drivers and I jumped up in the drivers seat and off we went. Took a 15-20 minute drive around the area and back to the yard. He signed me off saying I did fine! Went back to the office and we talked for a few more minutes and he handed me a sheet of paper and sent me off to drug test! Said that as soon as they get the results back that I'll be getting a call from HR to come in and do paperwork and get processed into the company! So I should be starting towards the end of the week or the beginning of next week. I'll be driving a mixer truck to start out on but will eventually move on to other stuff. Training on the mixer should take 2-4 weeks then I'll be out on my own. They do mixers, tanks, dumps, bottom dumps, and transfers and I'm hoping to learn all of them. The great thing about this job is it's Mon-Fri, normal hours, home every night, decent pay(with regular raises), benefits, and I'll get experience on more an just one thing. I'm pretty stoked right now!

 

Thanks! Bob is a cool guy. He's the one who taught our class. Funny guy.

 

Yeah he's an old school trucker that's for sure and he definitely smokes, A LOT, LOL. I was thankful for that too. Spend a few hours learnin, take a smoke break. Breaks up the day so you don't feel like you're trapped in a classroom all day.