questions from a wannabe

Hi All, Future Driver possibly, I have looked at many posts and gathered lots of info. Here's my questions.
Crete and Maverick seem the best . Any other suggestions?

CR England & Werner seem to be the joke of your industry who are the others?

I am 50 years old and need a career change (third time in 30 years of working) Both previous careers lost to technology changes which killed jobs. I can handle hard work done it my whole life,but the time away from home starting out can most wifes take it? Still have one kid at home in High School and 2 in college.

I will start CDL training this summer and be looking to start a new job in August. Not rushing into anything .

I know I need to learn the ropes, Figure put my one year in then look for a local job. Any and all suggestions welcome . Thanks!

 

Thanks ! I will look in to Crete also . Do you have anything to ad about them. How do the companies look at self employed? Had a very good business for 18 years that due to the economy I had to sell in 2007 . Have been self employed in sales since then making little income but that actually was a benefit with 2 kids in college we were able to get more money in grants and scholarships for them, Go figure? But they will finish school and time to find a decent income .

 

Just looked at Watkins Shepard and looks interesting. But I am not in there hiring zone . If there advertising is for real it looks like a really good company and I haven't found any complaints with a quick search

 

I just Drove from Chicago to Vermont for a family ski vacation. Based on what I saw on the road,Schnieder was the most I had seen moving followed by Crete and then Swift.

Interesting was between Chicago and into Ohio Roehl was moving the most trucks but died off once you hit PA. & NY.

Werner only saw 3 trucks on the road but maybe 10 sitting in a truck stop. CR England only 3 on the road and 2 in a truck stop , So these 2 companies do not seem to be moving very much.

Also saw alot of Central Refridge trucks .

 

Thanks American-Trucker, That's info that is very helpful to me and I"m sure others. I live suburbs west of Chicago and looked the other day and I thought I was outside of Watkins Shepard's zone.

Schneider Whats slip seat? 60mph to slow

Thanks for the list of other companies, I need to look at all of them , certainly haven't heard of all of them . Lots to learn

Skiing is darn good in Vermont! worth the trip .

 

Navajo = 62mph nice new KW's, they do NOT allow GPS or Inverters in there trucks

No GPS? And why is that not allowed? Inverters fine but I love a GPS system.