Starting out for rookies

Yea, my kids are grown and on their own and the home time isn't as important as it once was but I really don't want to stay out weeks at a time. There is a good thread about Schneider here:
http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/schneider/
Keep watching these pages. If I find some other good local or statewide companies I'll let you know. Good luck and keep us all posted.

 

Yeah I know alot of good local companies near me want experience before they will look at you. I think its more of an insurance issue than anything else. At least that's what I read. Some of the Mega Carriers self insure so they can take the risk on a newbie like you and I. If I make it thru the new driver gauntlet after a year or two and still have a clean driving record than I'm sure more doors will open. But for now I am just gonna worry about learning and safety! The money will hopefully come later.

 

Ditto. I love the hand-over-face smiley! Perfect! Brevity is the soul of wit---and you have displayed 40 tons of wit!

 

In my first hand conversation with a Conway Recruiter in July 2012 I was informed that six-month experience is required to be hired as a driver at Conway. I am just saying...

 

That is what schools do---get your tuition and have you smoke the promisedland-utopia pipe. Universities especially.

 

I know. I have 2 bachelor degrees and just finished 2 masters (double major) and am driving a truck and do not see any prospect of an "office job" in the future at least not one that pays as well as training on the truck.

 

-There's so many driving trk that attended college because they could'nt find employment or did'nt pay to do that type of work.+

 

Try Valley Transportation-a flatbed company in central Ohio. I don't have the contact details. I did a refresher course with Great Lakes Training south of Cleveland, and the recruiters where there every week looking for students. They will train you and home at the weekend with good equipment. Also, Stevens out of Dallas recruits students. You will have to go through an OTR traing program with them however. Stevens has a high turnover rate (112%) but you will have to endure for 6 months or a year then you can tell them where to go. When you get 6 months or a year come on down to Hollywood Fla and work where I do-Trans American Express. I make 45 cents a mile for all miles and average $1800 a week with paper logs, no touch freight, little Northeast, and drive solo in a 2009 big bunk Volvo. Trans American in a small company and seeking to grow. They can put you team also. If you cannot get on with any regular OTR carriers, start calling some container companies that run the ports such as out of Charleston, Savannah, Houston, Chicago etc. You may have to relocate at first, but after you get a year or so you can be making good money. Anyone who has a local company near-keep hanging around their terminal, keep talking to them, and eventually they might put you with a driver for a few weeks. Also, look like a driver when you talk to a recruiter-not wearing shorts and earings and looking more like a computer geek than a driver.

 

Ditto here. Bachelor and 1 year of postgraduate-realized I was wasting time and money. On a course to make 60K this year driving OTR.

 

You are still listed as a student. Did ya make it bro?