I need to vent WTF !!!!!!!!!!!

Reps are nothing more than salespeople trying sell seats to butts, ignore them and take the advise you find here...We had lots of reps come to our school and all made their companies sound like the greatest thing since sliced bread, then I found this site...

 

trucking is trucking.

 

Most smaller companies will not hire with out experience because they get a break on insurance.

 

What a freaking baby. Your new to trucking. Deal with it! You have to start off on the bottom just like everyone else you crybaby.

Why would a good company hire newbie when they have plenty of other drivers with 500,000 to 1,000,000 miles experience? You don't know crap bout trucking yet. Put your time in like the rest of us.

 

Do you understand that when you run team that you both are paid for all miles, not just those you run yourself? If you are being paid $0.14/mile with the split and both of you together drive 1,000 miles in a day then your pay would be $140. That really isn't too bad. It may not sound like much, but you don't have any experience. Most companies will not start someone new out where they are making over $100/day. The average team should run between 5,000-7000/miles per week. At a minimum you should earn $700. I would certainly NOT call a company that gives me an opportunity for a new career a bottom feeder. When you first start out you have little to bring to an employer, whether it is driving a truck or working for a factory. You must be trained. Just because you have a CDL doesn't mean that you are a professional truck driver. It only means that you have the credentials to learn how to become a professional driver. I would have much more respect for a company that would give me such an opportunity and pay me $30,000-35,000 my first year to learn a new profession. Where else can you go to work where you are paid that much to learn a new career? If I felt that way about the company that I planned on working, I would find other employment.