stable work history

TexaSean. I talked to Chris also. The company is ITP out of Crown Point, Indiana. I checked the web site and it only had a phone number. I think something is fishy also. He published that he had freight from So Cal to Canada. He told me he was "renting not leasing the truck in Vegas" whats that about? He talked about having connections in Canada and nothing about established routes. I dont think this guy knows much about this industry and is just seeing if he can get someone to take a risk. The only thing I had ever hauled out of New Mexico was used newsprint paper.
I would be careful.

 

Last I knew. I was free to move on to the highest bidder. This is america and screw their stable work history thingy. We're not slaves.

 

Only thing I want to know is, where do they get these HR people?
Every one that I've ever met is a twit! (or a wanna-be Commissar)

some sort of racket right there.

 

Yep, HR people are true idiots. Went to a job interview (non-driving) years ago. The HR lady kept asking a guy that was... maybe 55 and she kept asking him for his HS Diploma, when he kept telling her he had his BA degree with him, but couldn't remember where his HS Dip went to as he had graduated before she was even born! I passed up the job on account it was a 1 and a half hour commute, with a minimum wage training period of 1 month and I was expected to pay for my own background check.

What a joke!

 

Brother your turnover is 50%, during the past decade turnover industry wide for OTR was near 130%. It's the Economy not you.

 

Just doing my resume, looking back over the past decade I've had about 5-6 jobs.
If I eliminate the ones that hired me for a short period of time then decided to go with someone else, (like the car dealership that had 2 sales positions and brought in 10 people to see how many could last)
Let's review

Last job: trucking, quit, was tired of the POS equipment, not being home, and having a supervisor in another time zone.

Before that: Good job, badly run company, company had too many managers not enough workers, most of our customers dried up when the housing bubble burst, laid off.

Before that: Moved to a new city and worked at a Temp Agency, good stable work, most of my co-workers were drunks though, held a certain negative stigma, worked at one company for over a YEAR before they actually brought me onboard. (the fact that they used a lot of temps for full time work is part of the reason why I though they were poorly run)

Took a chance on a dream job, desperate to make enough money to get out of my Mother's house (mid 20's) dream turned into a nightmare, passed over twice but kept on as both people promoted over me turned out to be flakes (and quit or were fired). Didn't make enough to get my own place but saved up enough to move to a new city. (show's how much cheaper to live PA is vs. NYC) also the company has since gone under. The founder was very sick when I worked there and even though I worked for one of the sons it was looking like after the old man retired the whole company would melt down into familly infighting.

Was assitant manager for 3 years at a retail place, some days made more than the owner (because I was paid hourly, he made profit from the store) but couldn't afford rent for my own place so I lived at home. Left to TRY to get better pay, (or at least more hours)

Worked at the same law firm as my mother, started as a favor while I was between jobs, turned into a REAL job because their filing system was a complete mess and nobody understood computers at all. I'd never consider myself an IT guy, but basicly I was there to reboot computers all day long. So I couldn't exactly use my n00b experience in another job because nobody else could possibly be as out of touch with computers as these people were. I do take a measure of pride that my filing "system" is still being used today. Essentially I designed it.

 

Same here. I tried to get on with Knight Refrigerated and was told the same thing. These employers know they have the upper hand now because of a saturated unemployed public. We're not only competing against other drivers theses days.....

 

I honestly don't care if they approve of how many jobs you've had in 10 years. The point is that if you never stop looking for a better paying job. And they think that we don't know there is little chance of advancement in our field. So the only way to make more money is to move on to someone willing to pay it.

Like I stated before, this is America and I won't be forced to keep a job. That isn't willing to pass up pay raises for not losing any loads or causing any vehicle damage. And especially running without tickets and causing their insurance premiums to go up because the trucks not moving.

These large outfits think we are stupid and thats why most of them have a bad turnover cause the drivers eventually move on cause they aren't willing to keep a valuable driver. I say let the big companies fail over their stupidity.

The rest is just the economy.

 

With the cost of going to a "driving school" going through the roof, and the new guidlines that will be put upon these schools...if you have an active CDL right now, it would be foolish to let it go and go back to a regular license. Now the extra cost of the haz-mat endorsement is a personal choice (let mine go the last renewal...just don't do placard loads with this company), but never let your CDL lapse...keep it even if you don't use it as your license for employment. You might want it back if the economy turns around to the good for trucking.

Just my humble opinion!