Winnipeg based job

I'm 28 years old and starting my Class 1 training next month and got approved by both Arnold Bros and Bison for their Mentorship Program. I'm considering joining Arnold Bros, because they require only 1 year commitment (Bison requires 2 years). I don't have a big choice as a newbie so I'll choose one of those and hope they won't give me a hard time lol.

 

I would choose Arnold over bison. Neither is great. The industry is in the toilet. That said, we can’t get guys to stick on an 80,000 a year, home every day weekends off job. We work too hard apparently.

 

I'd show up for that.

 

Me too! XPO told me to piss off in Calgary lol

 

If you go to Bison, you won’t ever drive a truck again in 6 months (or less). That’s guaranteed, I still have a couple ICI buddies there, 100% of their students in the last 2 years, have quit and never gotten another trucking job in 3-6 months after signing up with Bison; it’s that bad. They had no issues, when they were training with my buddies. But once they got tossed into slip seat DFP hell. They either went bankrupt, insane or crashed due to pure exhaustion/fatigue. Also you’re forced to share trucks during Covid, zero sanitization, literally hot bunk slip seating!!!!

 

I went through all your previous posts few weeks ago as well as talked to two drivers that used to work for them and I think that reality there is a bit different than advertised. And did you hear anything about Arnold's Mentorship Program?

 

Just write the #### book and get it off your bucket list

 

Len Dubois? Paraclete Transport? Searcy? There was another carrier that I used out of Winnipeg that was also a decent one too, weird name that escapes me now.