What are the companies with highest beginning salary?

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GOOD MILES AND GOOD HOMETIME! You need to pick one or the other. If you are concerned about hometime save your money and do something else. Not trying to be harsh but this advice will save you time and money. Trucking schools and recruiters make money getting you to sign up for school. They are going to sugar coat it all. Kind of like a navy recruiter telling you that you will be based in Hawaii! Please do your research before paying thousands of dollars. As for good companies and miles, there are plenty of them. Maybe you have a friend or can hookup with someone that can take you out on the road with them. Good luck. pm me if you need more info.

 

You've got to get a good list of as many trucking companies as you can. Searching for trucking jobs I believe is a mistake. You'll pull up all the companies that are desperate. A good company has no need to advertise for drivers outside their own site. I would recommend looking under Fleet Directory.com. You'll get a better spill of information with alot of companies. The better companies you'll need to go their site and look under careers. They are hard to find but the harder the find the better the payout.

If you use a company to pay for your schoioling then you're asking for trouble. They want their money back and then some. They've got you where they want you and most of them treat those drivers as slaves. So it's best to start out armed with information than to start out looking for some.

 

It sounds like individual problems and not the company themselves to me.

 

Not always there Big Red. Alot of times these companies will "punish" the trainee if they ask for a new trainer because it cant be worked out with their current trainer. Then again not everybody is meant to be in this business. Only the trainer and the trainee really know for sure.
The company will always take the trainers side of the story because they are the known entity. As a trainee you are nothing but a way for them to get cheap labor. You can argue all you want with me, it wont matter, when you start with a company it might be great during your training and then you sit for a month waiting for a truck and then you dont have a job because you sat too long. That kinda crap happens all the time. I hope you dont have that happen but in reality it's a 50 50 chance with the big boys anymore.

Good luck and be safe

 

See how the company pays, is it Percentage? or is it off the Hub (paid for every mile you put on the truck) is it from PC Miler, or Zip to Zip. Some companies can cheat you up to 20% of the miles you actually drive and more.

 

oh yeah its a fun game for sure

 

No problem, thanks for the advice. However, what I will say is this...sometimes people just need to suck it up. Give you an example of what I am talking about, and why I feel the way I do.

I hear a lot of people that complain about Swift in particular. There are other companies that are being complained about, but I hear Swift the most. Couple points on this as well. Swift is huge, tons of people work for them. The happy ones won't be as loud as the people the are not happy. If you have an axe to grind, you tend to make a lot of noise.

Friend of my family drove for swift for about a month before he quit. Said it was because of this and because of that, the company wasn't taking care of him and whatnot. Well, turned out the real reason why he left is because of his girlfriend. She wanted him to get a local gig so he could be home more. When I asked how that worked out for him, the answer I got was "it didn't".

I suppose what my point is, akin to the military, you don't hear about the stuff that goes right. But if something goes wrong, (or when someone has that axe to grind) people are going to hear about it.

The best advice that was given to me about which company to look at? Hear them out, then use your own instincts. Just be smart and don't rush into anything.

 

A happy customer will tell 2 of their friends and unhappy customer will tell 20. That is a fact.

Now to the title of the post..... I your main concern is money don't get into trucking.

 

Schneider stopped their truck driving school some time ago....

 

Lupe, there simply isn't a quick easy answer. You're going to need to do what the rest of us did: use the search feature that Baack advised, spend time to read the mountains of information on numerous companies, call recruiters and ask questions, post specific questions on the T'sR to drivers of specific companies to clarify answers. And to be blunt: this time, effort and work that we're telling you to put in, is only the beginning. The whole schooling, training, occupation requires it.

Good luck on your research and on your career choices!