What is a good Trucking company?

There was a similar topic posted recently: http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...5-soon-driver-choices-choices-company-go.html.

I'm currently in school, and one of my instructors says Werner is the best company there is; another says they're okay. On my first day of class, a graduate came in and talked to us about Schneider; they sound okay except for a one-week training period (I'm not sure if that's standard or not, though). I'm unfamiliar with Roehl.

 

You're welcome. My best advice is that only you can determine the best fit for you, and take everything with a grain of salt. I'd also clarify the training period length with Schneider.

 

forget Werner, they along with CRST and CR England are the unholy trinity from hell. You have two of the better ones in Roehl and Schneider. Go to Roehl if you what to learn flatbedding and go to Schneider if you want to learn dry van.

 

In the "Trucking Company DAC Reports" section, there's whole sub forums dedicated to each of these companies.... I'd recommend you do some poking around in there.
I think your instructor is the only person I've ever heard of claiming Werner to be the best company there is... kinda makes me wonder what their incentive is for making that claim. We have a school here in CO where the school trucks bear the Werner Enterprises logo on them, which seems to me that Werner leases the trucks or sponsors the school somehow.. kinda make me wonder if it's a similar case there.

 

Or skip all of them and look beyond the "Big 10". There a lots of companies that will hire recent grads. Many don't advertise. Look in your local yellow pages and start knocking on doors. My first company was great, and they only hire in person. All their drivers come from referrals of other drivers, recommendations of the driving school at the community college, or people with enough motivation to seek them out. I started in dry can at .36/mi and by the end of 3 months I was at .40 ran 2800-3000 miles a week and was home virtually every weekend. Lots of gems like that out there if you look beyond the obvious.

As a side note, we had the Werner recruiter in when I was in school. I felt like I needed to take 3 showers after listening to that guy..........

 

I suggest selling yourself to a smaller,say <25 truck,outfit.It can be done even if you are a newbie.Smaller equates better,not necessarily regarding pay,but the overall "big picture".no qualcom,no 63 mph truck,no elogs,no whatever.I have never driven for a big carrier nor did i go to a driving school.I am basing my opinion on all that i have seen and heard in the over 20 years that i have been out here.

but then being so seasoned/calloused,i rarely believe anything i hear and only half of what i see and we all know about another's opinion!

best of luck no matter your decision.

I must add that it is not always about the pay.you could make bookoos of moolah and be absolutely miserable driving and being miserable carries over 24/7-365.you simply can not escape that miserable feeling when your job makes you that way.That driver wannabe is a fact.so a few cents more or less per mile ain't always all that-

 

Smaller companies also have there share of problems. They are more vulnerable to going broke if they loose a customer or two. A lot of them will push you to "fix" your log book to be able to deliver on time and/or keep rolling when you hit your 70. IOW, no place is perfect and you'll need to decide what you can put up with and what you can't then choose a company that best matches those likes/dislikes.

BTW, I like to drive 60 and let all the super truckers fly by me so a 63mph truck is just fine with me. It's a lot less stressful and it pretty fun to count how many times the same truck passes you in a day. A lot of times you'll both end up setting at the same truck stop at the end of the day too. If your running legal there really is not much of a difference between e-logs and paper logs.

 

so you still drive 60 mph in your car and you count the trucks that pass and you still go to truck stops to hang around at the end of the day? kind of strange since your profile says that you no longer drive a truck and that you only drove for 7 years.

i will assume that you now run a smaller company and are knowledgable regarding pushing a driver to "fix" his log book to help keep you from going broke since you lost a couple of customers.BS.smaller companies do not push their drivers any more than the large elog companies.the big company/elog runners are always the nastiest looking and stink because they have to shut down whereever and go w/o showers for days because that elog will run that truck,not the driver.hell,they can't even drive 10 miles out of route to go to a truck stop because of that elog.look at the typical us express driver or covenant driver.

yeah new drivers need to be run like that.