New to trucking! Been sponsored by USA Truck but havent left yet. Seeking info

Go to the community college if you can afford it. Why put yourself in indentured servitude for a year or maybe more?

 

I had three (maybe four) offers before I even got out of school. Didn't take any of them, but that's just because I had a specific niche in mind. Recruiters visit the schools regularly.

Of course the offers were all contingent on my graduating and passing the road test. But they were solid offers from recruiters who visited the school. Not only that, they were willing to reimburse my tution, without a contract. I just didn't want to work for those types of companies.

If you can afford to pay for your own schooling, do it.

 

Avoid company sponsored school, pay for your own if you can.
Why? If you're locked in most companies take advantage of you because they can/

If you want to know about pay, contact the company.

I would say to avoid USA truck, Werner, CR england, Swift, US xpress, Schneider, Stevens.. off the top of my head.
Those companies will pay you garbage and treat you not much better.

Averitt is a lot better, along with Crete, Rohel, Maverick.. off the top of my head.
With them you'll at least start if the 35CPM range and will find a lot less negativity about them compared to others.

 

Better to pay for it yourself! When I got out of school I went with Werner and they turn you as cheap labor. They left me hold up in a hotel for days while theydebated if they were going to fix the raggedy truck they put me in. The best thing was I didn't owe them anything and after I left the truck at the KW dealer and went home. I was able to get a local job and move on. Most of these companies will try to hold hostage for no money and put abandoning the truck on you record if you quit, and make you pay back the money for school. Keep your options open!!! Try to find drivers from the USA and get the real scoop from them. If this is a decent company they should be able tell you all their policies about pay. Definitely stay away from Werner and I never heard anything good about CR England.

 

Kentucky is a great state for trucking; good freight lanes running through the state. Go to a community college CDL school and get all the endorsements plus TWIC & a passport for the better paying jobs. Don't worry, dozens of companies will hire you with that CDL school diploma. Start researching companies now and submit several applications the day you start CDL school. You will have plenty of job offers to choose from. Some of the better companies you may not hear about in CDL school, so ask questions on here about those.

Here's some, for example, but there's more:

TMC
Melton Truck Lines
Superior Carriers
Schneider Bulk (tanker division)
Trimac Transportation
Keim TS
Watkins-Shepard (Berea)
Tidewater Transit
Sue Vinje Trucking
Navajo Express
Halvor Lines

There's more & you can apply online the day you start school.
Your classmates will be surprised that you're so informed about options they've not heard of.
As for USA Truck, many drivers post they make a good living working there.
One of the secrets to landing a good trucking job is to ignore "experience required" on the websites, and apply anyway.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ8WKscGo8I check this out

 

here's another good one, USA truck trains well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2iZkL_x0V8