NEW CDL GRAD IN CA got rejected my werner and schneider

Try applying at a local ltl co. Start out on the dock maybe as a combo driver. Maybe foodservice company. Twenty hours of truck school is pretty much the same as you renting the truck and taking test by yourself. Did you have experience moving /backing tractor trailer around prior to going to school? Probably the school felt you didnt need much behind the wheel. As long as you have the certificate of completion, I dont think you will have a problem locally

 

This wasn't a correspondence course was it?

 

The 5 is far worse than the 99.

I run the 99 all the time.

 

Dootson has a good reputation locally.

A lot of the local companies use them for training drivers.

I do not know how you only got 20 hours of training.

There has got to be more to this story!

Have you asked them for placement?

 

I found this on their website:

 

More places to stop on the 99 if I remember correctly. I did the 5 one time and I was like holy crap-o-moly where oh where is there going to be another truck stop!

unloader

 

SWIFT would probably take him, put him through their OTR mentoring program.

unloader

 

Really?

That's exactly what I did and did it several times.

I walked into the office of my present employer, asked if they are hiring, the girl at the desk said "no" so I asked if I can fill out an app and she handed me an app, I filled it out handed back to her, plus my MVR and said thank you. Went home, made dinner and got a call that night for an interview. I've been working for them since October.

I've worked for more small companies than large ones in my life and many times I got hired by walking in the front door and asking for an app.

I don't get people when they say you can't do that - there is no national policy for hiring, you just need to get of your butt and put some effort into it.

 

This is exactly how I got most jobs in my life too. You have to make things happen for yourself. Be a go getter.

 

Swift requires 240 hours. Prime *may* take him, and put him with a trainer for 40K team miles (about 2 months).