Fresh Graduated first offer !! Please HELP

Never jump into something you don't reasonably understand.
Doubly so when you are so new to trucking.

A year or two OTR with dry van will give you the time to get some skills, and some decent knowledge of the rest of the industry.

 

You should call a few of the big companies. I just recently returned to driving and I talked to KNIGHT in order to get started. Didnt sign with them, yet.
They offered 3 days indoc, paid, hotel paid, ...then drive test with them...then OTR with a trainer, $800 a week. 4 weeks.
AND THEY WILL REIMBURSE for truck school. In fact I have read the online offers from many companies that will reimburse you for CDL school.
Car hauling looks like it would be a #####! Think about it....What do you do when you load a big SUV up on top and you have to exit the car...!!! FAAAK! Watch out!! No thanks. Like the other poster wrote,....go pull a dry van. easy, but some minor pros and cons but a lot less hassle in my mind.

 

You need real training. Find a company that has experienced trainers.
I got lucky and ended up with an excellent trainer from a medium sized company. Others within that company were not so lucky and got pretty crappy trainers.
Demand a good one

 

If you want to haul cars , find a larger company.

same goes with regular cargo van or flatbed .

find a company with at least five trucks and pays on a W2.

 

800 weekly on a 1099 is no money. Drivers are taking that home easily on a W2.

 

i always figure 30% out when I did 1099 and 800 your making 560 give or take if you have other stuff taken out like state tax 560 i made more driving buses less hassle too id sooner work for as a bus driver then make that little and that much headache

 

@Hammer166 , your on call

 

You had a good formula. I didn't have ti worry about state tax because Tennesee doesn't have it lol. I figured about 20 to be on the safe side. I agree that it's a lot less headache to go somewhere reputable. OP is rookie sonja has no reason to go that route. I understand going 1099 if you have to clean up your record for a while, but it's no way in hell you can make a career out of it.

 

Which part of NY? If it’s NYC then hell no

 

Jeez, like I'm going be any help? Lol.

But let's start at the top with the 1099. Anyone who wants to pay you 1099 doesn't want the hassle of doing things right and act like an employer in the legal sense. Most of them still want to treat you like an employee, but you'll have none of the legal protections of an employee.

As far as training with someone with 6 months experience? They don't even know what they don't know yet. You'll learn a little, but more likely it'll be bad habits.

Jumping straight into carhaul? It can be done, but the only guys I've seen make it work are the ones for who driving came easy. Too many new drivers are spending too much time operating in information overload, and that's a recipe for disaster with extra workload of carhaul. The nightmare of the 95 corridor will not help that situation.

As far as learning carhaul? From a newbie, or over the phone? If you're lucky, you'll learn to be a guy who hauls cars, the chances of learning to be a Carhauler are almost zero. Sure, you can watch guys you load next to, and ask questions about it. But the majority of those guys are doing it wrong, too. As is human nature, the lazy way is the path most traveled, rather than the correct way. Maybe you'll get lucky, and talk to the right guys, who can tell you why it should or shouldn't be done a certain way, but it's not likely. And your bosses don't sound like they know.

So, if you are a natural driver, and you can look yourself honestly in the mirror and say that is so, I'd find one of the companies that will train you in carhaul. I don't know who that would be, that's not my part of the world that you're talking about.

But for most new drivers, you need to get a job to where you can learn be a proactive driver, to where you're always ahead of your truck, not behind it being reactive. Once you've reached that stage, then you're ready to tackle the extra workload of something specialized.