Need info about Celadon Trucking.

I don'tthink they going to team two rrookies together. Unless one of them is your trainer and u. Together u and your trainer become a team ..I just need to talk to a recruiter for more information.

 

Gotta pay your dues. If you love it, them, stay on. If not, move on.

 

I don't know much about the school. I started with celadon in July 2013 as an experienced driver. There are several ways to get good miles and be successful at this company. I will list a few below.

1) Tell them you want to be in the reefer division. This opens you up to every kind of load they have available that goes into a box trailer. If you don't start in the reefer division and you just get a regular DM like most people do, that DM will tell you that everyone pulls reefers. This is only partially true. Reefer drivers have priority on all reefer loads. That means if you and a reefer driver are waiting for a load in the same area and a reefer load becomes available, the reefer driver will get the load. Period.
2) Get a DM that will actually give you more miles when you ask for them instead of giving you excuses.
3) Don't complain about short runs. Short runs often lead to long runs. One example? You might run from Indianapolis to West Virginia with a load of motor oil. It's only 300
miles, but the receiver in West Virginia also ships loads of petroleum lubricants that go to the San Francisco Bay Area. I know because I've done a few of those. There are many other examples of short runs that lead to long ones, that's just one example.
4) Take every load you're given and run as hard as you're comfortable with running.
5) When you're assigned a load, figure out when you can actually get there to pick it up. Even if you're not able to get there by the appointment time. They will either reschedule or give you another load.
6) When you're done getting loaded at a shipper, send them a macro 7 which gives them an ETA of when you can arrive to the receiver, whether that ETA is later than the appt time or not. If you can't make your appt, they will reschedule. If you can't make an appt, then you can't make it. You absolutely MUST let your dispatcher know you're not going to make it AT THE EXACT MOMENT that you realize you're not gonna make it. I cannot stress how important this is. Your dispatcher needs to know about anything and everything that happens that has any effect of any kind on your ability to pick up and deliver on schedule. If you can't make your scheduled delivery appt for any reason, it will be rescheduled.
7) If you're thinking about coming to work for Celadon and you're expecting to make good money and get home often, this is not the company for you. At this company, it's one or the other. The more often you go home, the more your paychecks are going to suffer. This is true with just about any OTR job, but it's especially true at Celadon. You don't make enough per mile to be able to be home more and run fewer miles without taking a big hit in the wallet. These are just the cold hard facts.

Any questions not already answered above....feel free to PM me or reply to this post.

 

There is good money to be made with this company. You must have a good DM, and you must be willing to stay out longer than a week or two.

 

Is their any in class room test you must pass for this school? Map test, logging test etc?

 

Thge only thing that confusing me is after u finish their school , why u gotta team drive to complete their required miles before going solo .. Im just having a strong issue with this and would someone to clear this up . thank you