the 3 worst compny in the industry, im right or not???

As a driver with only 20 months exp, I hear what your saying. As to the part about paying my dues, HAVE I PAID MY DUES ???? YES SIR, THE CHECK IS IN THE MAIL !!!!!

 

Maybe it is the compensation, benefits and home time that they do not like. I don't blame them. The OTR industry doesn't pay worth a ####. That's just my opinion. Feel free to try and prove me wrong.

 

I start with cr england soon. Despite what I have been hearing, its better than my current job

 

I don't think you read my post correctly. I am not now a recruiter...I used to be.

I guess my question is to you - Where can the "vast majority" of new trucking students get their start in the industry and not go with an OTR company? Again please note the "quotes"... Please don't tell me with a local mom and pop company. There aren't enough of those jobs to go around.

 

Good luck to you. Regardless of what anyone says about the company YOU choose to work for...it is whether or not it works for YOU. I wish you success.

 

One company I have worked for that I believed had a good training program was May Trucking i didnt train with them but i did become a Trainer for them for close to a year. They wanted the trainers to have the "newbies" do as much driving as possible granted not all trainers did this i know a few would run it as a team as soon as possible just for the miles. Personally when i would get a new trainee i would start the first trip driving for the first 2-4 hours then turn it over to the trainee and he would do a majority of the driving as long as he felt comfortable. I had them do all of the backing duties until they were confident they could do it without any trouble. And once they had the confidence i would slowly work it to team style driving if the trainee felt he could handle it. But that was my style of training some might say its the wrong way to do it but it worked for me and all but 2 of my students went on to become trainers themselves so I personally think thats how all "Newbies" should be trained its how I would have been preferred to be trained when I first started in the Industry but I started with PST in 97 and they stuck me with another student right after school had no trainer at all.

 

Good point. When i first drove a TT it was in 1982 in the panhandle of TX. International an Mack 13 speeds with NO sleeper berths, and NO Air Ride suspensions or cushy seats. Today the trucks and driving conditions are more than 100% better than way back....an attitude of gratitude goes along way today. food for thought eh?

 

I am just finishing up cr Englands refresher course. I will give them a little credit, we used good trucks, 2010-2011 freightliner Cascadia, we had good instructors. But for a huge company, I felt like I was staying in a prison barrack....wait, sorry, prison barracks are far cleaner. Hell, county jail is more sanitary than this place.

 

This thread gives good advice and basically what I have figured out is that some hate some companies and some hate others. It is the attitude you have that seems like it makes a difference to me. Thanks for all the input!

 

The worst three companies in the industry according to most drivers it seems, is the one they used to work for, the one they currently work for, and the one that other guy works for! Not necessarily in that order. Sometimes a bad company can become a good company to you if you just learn a little more about them, try to understand, from managements perspective, why they do certain things, and change your "me, me, me" attitude. And trust me, we all gotta work on the "me, me, me" attitude every day. It is really hard not to think "me, me, me" when we spend so much time isolated in our trucks.