New driver...best company for home time in Virginia (Richmond, Fredericksburg, etc.)?

If trucking companies focused on hiring candidates that have stable work history (rather than just filling seats in trucks with warm bodies), they wouldn't have to resort to something like this to "encourage" truckers to stick around for a full year. Lets be honest here...this is a one way commitment. i.e. Virginia is an employment at will state. Either the employee or employer can terminate the employee/employer relationship at any time and for any reason. Van Wyk could kick the employee bound by this one-way commitment to the curb at any time for any reason. Knowing that...why would anyone that has other options even consider working for a company that has such an arrangement?

Van Wyk might be a great company. However, I doubt that I'm the only applicant that said that they weren't interested once the bit about the one year agreement came up during the phone interview.

My 10+ year work history consists of only two employers. I don't need to be taught discipline, but yes...I have a LOT to learn about the industry.

Yup. After looking around locally, it seems like the endorsements that you mentioned are required by most of the employers. I'm going to go to the DMV on Saturday and see if I can get those knocked out.

 

The logic I was given is that as they have to pay to put you through their company training program, they want some assurance that they'll get a return on their investment.

I spoke with Jeanie. Very nice lady. The phone interview went well until this topic came up. At that point, I thanked her for her time and said that I was no longer interested.

 

If someone has other options, I have to assume that those include pay and benefits.

 

I was told that the one year commitment would be linked to just the few weeks of OJT that I'll have to complete. That being the brief period that literally every company has just to show you how they do business and make sure that you're safe.

I would totally understand it if they wanted a 6+ month commitment if they were paying $4,000+ for me to get a CDL through an in-house school (i.e. CR England). I'll already have my CDL completed and be through a CDL school and will have my CDL-A in-hand before I check in though.

Unless I find a local gig, I'll likely go with TMC.