I just graduated from Luzerne County Community College's Professional Truck Driving Program last week with no problems. Anyway, one of the recruiter's from Shaffer who normally comes in couldn't this time because he was on vacation for a few weeks. He'll be back on Monday (which is when I plan to speak with him). I'm 21 years old, and I noticed on the website that the minimum age requirement is 22. Am I screwed? Just wondering whether or not I'm going to need to contact that Schneider recruiter or not.
He and a recruiter from Swift came in during the class as well. Of course, after what I've read here, Swift isn't really number one on my list. Schneider, however, was my first interest (again, before I started coming to these forums). They don't seem to get a ton of praise here, but I still wouldn't count them at yet, at least as a good place for me to start and get my year of experience in.
I've been looking into other companies as well. Seems like most of the higher rated companies require 1 year OTR. I'm hoping to get in with Crete/Shaffer right from the start. I've read a lot of good things about them. I don't think I could do much better starting out with no experience.