Best 1st company?

Marten Transport

• Minimum 6 months recent qualified CDL-A driving experience

 

Yes private is the way most will tell you. But the job market seems awfully thin right now.
So going company training and passing will assure you a job for now. But you also might be tied to that company for a year

 

Yes. Chinatown was just pointing out that Marten , as one of your choices, requires 6 months.

Swift does not require 6 months, as they are also a training company.
Swift has a bad reputation in many circles, but I have been with Swift going on 13 years.
In fact, nearly half the drivers at my terminal (Menasha, WI) have over 10 years and are 1, 2 or 3 million mile drivers with Swift.

 

After you get your CDL from a tech school or a community college, you could try these guys:

Werner Enterprises -- Fontana, CA -- hires & trains new CDL grads with no prev exp

This of course assumes they are in fact still hiring when you later get your CDL.

Right now....and for the foreseeable future -- the job market for new CDL grads is pretty thin (as explained above). You will likely need to take a job (like this one with Werner, if available) when you later graduate with your CDL -- if you can get it.

-- L

 

It depends on the dozen requirements you did not mention. The best shoes are the ones that fit you, not the pair most people buy. If the shoes don't fit you, the fact a lot of other people like them won't prevent the blisters on your feet.

Time at home, how often you get home, location of the terminal near you, cost of benefits, rider policy, idle engine/ APU/ inverter, type of freight, freight lanes, etc etc.

 

Find the job THEN decide about school.