newbe needs advice on a couple of companies

Here are two pennies for your thoughts:

1. Get a local paper in Phoenix and look in the help-wanted ads. Oh, no, you're not looking in the classfieds for an actual job. You want to look there for those outfits you want to stay away from. The newspaper will give you plenty of company names you want to avoid. There are good reasons why those outfits have ads in the paper begging for people. "Replace a quitter today, BE a quitter tomorrow." 'Nuff said.

2. Pull out the yellow pages and start calling outfits in the Phoenix area that are not in the help-wanted ads. Somebody among those outfits is bound to take a chance on you.

 

Good advice!

 

Have you checked with the recruiters for these two companies to see if they hire in your area? Some of the data on recruiting websites is no longer accurate. I know for Willis Shaw the recruiter told me that I lived too far west and I am in NM. Living in Phoenix you do have several companies that hire regional as well as OTR. My trainer hired on at Ruan driving locally with some opportunity for OTR.

 

Are you sure you don't want to retire to a large motor home that you can drive slow in the hammer lane while seeing the sights? LOL

 

I'm not a CA kid (born in a state that is currently seeing more water than they care to) but grew up in Orange County. About the only thing I miss about CA is the beach.

 

LOL - and you want to get into trucking? Every ONE of us is nuts.

As for me, I'm not planning to retire anywhere in the lower 48. Too many *people*. I don't want to see my neighbor's lights on a dark night, much less hear him fart in a windstorm.