Opinions on Melton’s home time in central KY

Look at the hometime options with Roehl Transport (pronounced, "rail"):

Industry leading home time for truck drivers

-- L

 

I started at Maverick and my trainer was from Kentucky-he hadn’t missed a weekend home in a decade.

 

What they say.....vs what it really means:

That sounds like a veiled way of saying..."we are not currently hiring in your area"....or similar.

If....you came to them with a year (or more) of flatbed experience (plus a clean safety record)...by the response you got....are we to really believe they (still) wouldn't hire you?!?

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-- L

 

If recruiters won't shoot straight with you -- try looking elsewhere.

Maverick is aggressively looking for drivers in some areas.

You are easily inside their hiring area...as of the time of this writing.

You probably won't find better flatbed training anywhere else.

A bonus: after you pull "normal" flatbed loads with them for about 6 months -- ask to move over to either their glass....or marine division -- & get some varied flatbed experience.

-- L

 

#### that's not unreasonable. What does gypsum pay a year?

 

Melton pays average or slightly under and expects you to do a lot of work for little pay. There home time was around 1 day home for every 1 week out (I was there 9 years ago). They are a micromanagement company. But they do teach you the correct way to secure and after your time at Melton you will be qualified to work a better paying job.

 

Maverick is where you need to be looking. I regularly ran loads in and out of KY, when I was there.