The BEST company YOU have worked for!

Hey if you want check out Ruan each terminal has different pay rates our terminal pays all miles home weekends good insurance and have no complaints been there 2 years after being union local driver for 23 years yes job change due to old company going under. Ruan has been better to me than old place and I'm doing tanker

 

Color Spot Nurseries ....I drove out of the Walnut Springs Texas facility. Loved it.

 

Gordon out of your list would be the best. They have good trainers and better pay than the pumpkin. They also have apu"s on there trucks. There trucks are slow 60mph out west.

 

Check again. I think you will find that stevens requires that the truck be parked at a "secure" facility. This can be a terminal, a dealership, they even have a deal that you can park at ThermoKing dealer. No takey homey.

 

My favorite jobs were local. But my best OTR job was Storey Trucking out of Henegar, AL. It's a small laid back company that pays percentage running to Phoenix-LA area and produce back to Atlanta. All trucks were governed at 80. Since it's impossible to run nonstop round trip, I would do a restart at the Commerce Casino in LA and play poker which I'm good at. Then I would come home and take another couple days off. They paid you as soon as you got back. It was a pretty good setup while it lasted. The owner retired and his son took over. The first thing he did was go to an all team operation which I refused. But I think they are back to having solo's now.

 

pgt for me is the best .but the only one to lol

 

Since you all mentioned different companies (I've done the multi quote), and they're quite a distance from me - Do companies hire drivers from a completely different area? If so - is there a general "how many miles away can I be" guide? I'm in Victorville, and the closest area where I know of trucking yards (hub. lots, etc.) are Fontana and Ontario areas. Would my training for the first month or so be out of a complete different area that local to me? Would that mean that I could only get hired by companies with a "yard" or "lot" that's local to me?

Thanks, guys!

 

It's not uncommon at all for you to work for a trucking company that might be half way across the country from where you live if your running OTR.

If you want to run "local" then you would need to live within a commutable distance of wherever you would report to work each day.

 

Im sorry. I just named the best company that I worked for. I realize you are doing research, but I was just putting that out there. The one that I worked for was local.

 

I'll be looking for OTR. Local will come later, but not sure in how long. Still looking for a decent company that will hire me on, being that I live in the high desert in SoCal.