Asking for a friend

I don't know what to do now. If you are the driver using military benefits to get CDL and you took a job with an employer that offered to hire you faster than another company, which is who I think I am writing this to, I suggested you NOT just work at the companies that would hire you the quickest so you can get experience. If my memory is wrong then I still don't know what to do. Now you have bad experiences and multiple jobs in a short time and a lot fewer options. A period of unemployment after CDL school while you found a job where you can work for 1-2 years and get experience was my Plan B. Plan A was to find the job before CDL school so there would NOT even be a period of unemployment before getting the 1-2 year job, experience, and good habits. I'd rather lay in a ditch until I'm dead than have chaos. So I make choices to avoid the chaos. Once the chaos begins I don't see good options because the stress and the "decide now" pressure causes me to have short-circuits in the brain box.
Some people recommend construction jobs and dump truck work for people with problems. Maybe try them.

 

Get your endirsements. You have to realize the longer you are out of a truck is bad as well. Too long and you're basically seen as a newbie.

 

About job hopping. Most times, that lush green grass in the other pasture turns out to be Astroturf. There is no such thing as a perfect carrier. If all you do is seek the impossible, all you are going to do is find yourself unemployable.

 

Don't change jobs because someone you don't know, who doesn't work for that possible employer, is guessing it might be a good job. Do whatever it takes to talk to current drivers at that employer and listen to them describe the job as they are doing it every day and do that long enough you get a feel for what kind of driver or person they are. The Hard Chargers will quite a job if another company delivers 2 CPM more and then expect both past and future employer to have AT LEAST the same amount of freight or the legal maximum amount of work the HOS allow. CPM and Miles are nothing like the same thing. The Hard Charger cannot for a moment consider any company would not have 200% more work than can fill the HOS and understands sitting waiting for a load as a personal assault by the company owner or dispatcher on his children. The people with more bills than money think higher CPM will rescue them from their future bankruptcy. It won't. Everyone has a reason why someone else must do A LOT more so they can have a better outcome. They better be prepared to put it more effort than those that owe them to great results. They are the ones that benefit from the outcome.

Most jobs I liked and stayed at I knew someone working at that company for a year or more and I could get honest descriptions of the job AT THAT COMPANY before I applied for work. That's the only way I know how to find a good job. It seems everyone younger than me would rather drink acid and eat glass than find any info except on the internet. I get it. People are massively difficult to deal with. I will be living off-grid eventually. But web sites, and recruiter talk, and what the company wants applicants to know plus guesses from strangers is NOT RELIABLE. It either comes from a biased source, is outdated, or the world has changed since that advice did work.

 

Type B are close to being crap drivers. They are the ones who have to have some hand-holding, never really satisfied with working within the company's limitations and acting like they are such an asset.

Type C are crap drivers who just are there for the money, nothing else matters to them. They are the ones who are most likely to quit without notice, leave the truck somewhere hard to find, and then b***tch about everything that happened to them as if they are so special they are in the spotlight all the time.

It is up to you what you want to be in life, not me. Ping ponging between companies is bad, no matter who is going to look at your work record, they will be clear, "why?" is the question that they will ask, and unless they just want meat in the seat, they will toss your app in the circular file no matter what your answer is and just move on.

There are thousands of driver out there looking for work, like I said to another (she/he/whatever it was) thought they were smarter than someone who hires and fired for a living - you have to have more than your ***** to offer a company to get into the best place you could ever work for.

OK, so go to Whataburger and get a job.

Helpful?

NO, I wasn't being helpful other than telling you to stop *******ing around and stick to one thing because this industry is growing tired of job jumpers, and the prospect of robots and autonomous trucks is looking better and better every day for fleet owners, large and small.

Toxic?

Exactly, a driver becomes toxic to a carrier when they are not more than meat in the seat for a carrier, not going to do much other or allowed to do much other than to be a steering wheel holder.

 

Well.....I wouldn't have left the orange company until I had a plan. I think you should go back and do that dollar account.....it's June. It's hot everywhere. This is the time where you'll have to evolve from delicate flower to a thorny rose. If you don't learn to like the taste of ####, you will always job hop in trucking. As I've told you before, experience is the most valuable you can have in this current market, even moreso than endorsements. Endorsements do you no justice until you get experience. 1 year minimum is what really good companies need in order to hire you. Things will get uncomfortable, but you'll need to coming to Jesus moment and learn to endure.

 

Did you not talk with the 2 i told you about?

Way better than Welfare Express & Pumpkin runners.

 

Take a look at Marten Transport.
Hires Las Vegas drivers.
Check this page about Marten Transport:
Marten Transport | CDL-A OTR

 

Tell any company you apply with that you resigned from your latest job because you had to get all your household goods out of storage and moved into your Las Vegas home.
Just throwing money away paying for expensive storage.

 

Given your tenure at CDL jobs thus far -- this one (in above quote) will be hard to beat.

I've talked to at least 2 different drivers with real time in at this carrier; both had nothing bad to say about them.

-- L