Starting orientation/training next week CT Transportation

Great plan. I sort of have a similar plan but I might try to get established as a carrier then put my son in the truck and create a nice cushy office job for myself in retirement and run the truck from home and pay him a decent wage to drive

 

Sure thing.. Might be a little ways off for me..All depends on when I can start collecting my pension check...Good luck to you as well and Ill be here following your thread as long as you plan on keeping it going.

 

can you give me some details about the physical tests they give during orientation? do they have that step test where you step up and down for a minute etc? i live in greensboro nc and the home every weekend and southeast runs sound good. when do you usually get home and leave out as well? thanks

 

Dont buy the southeast bs especially since you'd be running out of the Mocksville terminal, I've spent a fair amount of time up into NJ, NY, PA, CT, and OH, even jumping into MI and IL a couple times since I started. As far as getting home and such that will differ from driver to driver, since I got out of training theres been maybe 5 or 6 times that I wasnt home on Friday or even Thursday sometimes, and leaving out if determined by where your load is going. For me an average monday delivery has me leaving around noon on Sunday, but times like this weekend I dont leave till monday

 

ah ok...they always make it sound so nice lol. hows the company as a whole? any new trucks on the horizon, hows the pay, average miles per week etc......can you give me some details of what they make you do during orientation? i see your in graham lol, im in kernersville

 

Hinshaw im from Burlington. .and got a prehire with CT. .same question. .pay? Miles? ..also got a prehire with Arnold. .leaning towards Arnold. .

 

Well as far as I think and I'm sure mph would agree with most of this as well, but I see it as a decent company overall. I've been home every single weekend since I started in late April, never had a problem with any staff (except for some lazy mechanics in unnamed terminal locations), its a good place to get a . START in flatbeds. Pay is fairly low from what I hear from other flatbed drivers, starting at 30.5 loaded and 20 empty but it starts bumping up little by little pretty quickly. Now I havent had this problem yet but what I hear from older drivers is that if you hit the 40cpm mark your miles will drop like a rock.. so most drivers get experience at get on down the road. As for the equipment..thats where my main problems with CT are.. the tractors are 2005 and newer but have been rode hard and put up wet, and the automatic trans give more problems than anything. Most trailers are also in just amazing states of rusting away and such and some of the 45' trailers are older that I am.. Don't get me wrong we dont have a 100% junk fleet but the better things are just harder to get ahold of. But they have said that new Internationals were in the works to replace the ageing Mack fleet but thats been being said for a good while now so I'll believe it when I see it. So pretty much from my point of view I take having a slightly worn truck and being home every weekend over having a brand new truck and living in it months at a time, but hey that's up to you

 

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Orientation is kinda fuzzy for me.. but best I can remember it wasnt all that special, it's alot of taking small tests like you're in CDL school again and listening to guys tell you if you look at a truck the wrong way it will flip over and burst into flames killing famlies of small kittens.. but for the psychical tests I honestly cant remember the details.