more of a statement than a question.

My 1st choice was Prime when i 1st looked into this and after a bunch more research they seem to be the most upstanding with the best rates. Just afraid if i didn't qualify with them i would have to work for the other outfits that are not so upstanding.

 

Buddy I hear ya loud n clear on that. My thoughts exactly.

 

might be the gov. subsidy they get for work place training.

more money if your from a depressed area.

 

Recruiting jobs are sales jobs. Part of their income is based on closed sales (signing up drivers), which leaves the door wide open for "stretching the truth." Look past what the recruiters say, research and then "go with your gut" feeling as to which place is the best fit.

 

Govt money, Student Loans, GI Bills, Workforce retraining programs etc.

 

Have you ever seen some tv news reports on panhandlers? Some "get caught" leaving the corner, walking down the stret a little bit, then getting into thier Mercedes, Volvo's, BMW's. So panhandlers do quite well these days.

Now as for "some" recruiters, also known as "head hunters" they get a base pay, either hourly or salary. Some get a commission on the bodies they recruit and go to orientation, From there, thier job is done. Long before one gets to orientation, the recruiters will often "go by the book" of head hunting basics 101.

They learn from that book, "tell them what they want to hear". As a result, many wannabe's and newly licensed CDL holders are hungry as all hell, and willing to eat shoe leather for a job that pays over $100,000 a year, free meals and free lodging. Only problem with the free food and lodging, it is not when you are on the road, but at orientation, but the newbie only hears, "free".

Common sense "should prevail" over stupidity or blindness or in some cases, "selective hearing". If the head hunters know that one only wants to hear what he wants to hear, then they got 'em by the short hairs. It is an on going problem, the recruiting staff and the company has going to obtain new drivers. Let's not forget too, that most all trucking companies nowadays get federal training monies for new drivers. All the company has to do is show they are hiring job qualified people, and training them, and the feds pay up.

When a newbie fails a road test, or a physical, or has an accident, or fails the background check, the company kicks them out. But as long as the companies can show the student was hired, and trained, they still collect monies. In regards to the background checks, yes many times it is done during orientation. But I have been personally checked long after I was put into a truck and had been working x number of weeks. I never failed any background check, or anything else in orientation, but I had up and quit after x-number of weeks, when I could see that it was of no use to continue working for x-trucking company.

So the morale of this story, take anything a recruiter says with a grain of salt. If you want to believe anything they say, and live by it, you set your own bed, now sleep in it. It's a job they have. Like the job you have, to drive.

 

Because driving experience beyond a year or two is not an asset. Rookie gets the load there for less money, and is more subservient.

Might not seem like much but an extra penny x 144K miles = $1440/year. Multiply that for the ~500 drivers of a medium-size carrier and that's ~$720,000/year.

 

You know why I started with Lessors? Recruiter told me "It's a trucking job. We will try to give you 2500-2800 miles a week. No promises". 7 years later (with a break in there) still here. Usually run over 3000.

 

This is how I got my current job. The supervisor put an ad in Craig's List, and I responded. He flat out told me that he does not want to hire younger people as they have no real work ethnic, and prefers people closer to retirement age. As far as "any training" went with me, I did go on the run for 2 nights with a fill-in driver so I could not only learn the route, but the customers locations specific unloading procedures at each stop and of course the alarm systems do's and don'ts. No head hunter needed, no commissions paid out.

 

Which in turn brings us back to the reoccurring saying of "you have to put your time in somewhere".