Star Trucking,TN - There are better places

Better places to work in trucking. No pay for orientation, they will tell you, "no", "because orientation is only a day an half long" (that should be your first red flag). No sign on bonus. Safety Manager that did his intro to the company was aggressive, confrontational and arrogant. After orientation, paperwork, drug test, driving test, last step will be an interview to let you know if they will hire you, (thought that is why they got you there, not so..). They go over DAC and MVR , again. Safety and polices are geared towards firing for infractions. You must sign an agreement to be responsible for all damage to your equipment or involved with, (trailers). They encourage reporting offenses, damages. Freight is mostly auto parts. You will do a lot of swapping trailers with other drivers, (they call it relaying). Sly way of cutting into miles and really working you. Drivers I talked with had almost no positives about working there. Pay is not competitive. Star is under umbrella of Covenant Trucking. "There are better places to work".

 

There's always one or two out there. Don't take this the wrong way but, I question your motivation. My experience is first hand. I realize that some truckers will put up with a tremendous amount of nonsense from a company because the only skill they have is behind a wheel. Truckers put up with too much from sub standard companies. BTW, Nissan closes down for a couple of weeks just like all other automobile companies. When your friends are fishing during that time, do they tell you about the big one that got away. Thanks for your post. There are better companies.

 

Sure I question your motivation. Your statement you work for a "competing carrier" proves my statement. If Star is such a terrific company as you paint, you would think your truck would be on their payroll and you could speak from experience. Not to offend, but you make your comments sound like a paid commercial. Hear say is just that, "hear say" and that is what your experience is concerning this company. It's not admissible in court and usually not reliable. Just a word of advice, I would stick to personal experience. The terminal has nothing to do with my post. Policy, procedure and personal experience is what I posted. There are better companies.
Thanks again...

 

Interesting.... text book personality and an emoji. Your parents should take away your keyboard.

There are better companies.

Thanks, again....