Best Companies by State? How about FL?

Surratt Transport Is In Dade City,the Only Problem Is They Run Teams Only. Your Out For Min. 5 Weeks They Pay Percentage Of Load Value. They Average 1200 To 1500 A Week And Might Take Students Depending On The School

 

If you get this before you leave PM with your number and I will give you a call. I live about 5 miles from MTC. I will be talking to them on Monday am.

 

Anywhere in Florida is too south for most companies. I know because I've lived there for 16 years. I had a short stay at Raven, only because the guy that runs Raven use to be the owner of Silver Eagle, before Silver Eagle was bought out by Arnold Transportation(which was bought by Roadway, then sold by Roadway then bought by ????(mystery investors), then sold by ???? to the CEO of Arnold, then he sold 49% to USeless Xpress.) They were nice at Raven, but my dispatcher would overstep her authority and set things up, only to be changed by her supervisor. Over, and over, and over. I didn't know it was two people sending me msg's. I though she was just confused...a lot. After the first half dozen times it happened, I started to get grumpy so maybe she would make up her mind. That's when I found out that it was the supervisor changing things. I found out when they called me into the office to offer me a ride home, after they took my keys and fuel card. Only company I was ever asked to leave in all these years of driving.

 

Since this is the forum for posting comments about GOOD companies,I will word my comment like this. McGriff Transportation based in Cullman AL, has a terminal in Jax. If you want to work for a good company,go somewhere else.

 

I drive out of Jacksonville. I run flatbed for Roehl and love it. We share a yard here with Star and Gypsum Express mainly, so you might look into them. Raven is a great company from what I hear, but won't look at student or inexperienced drivers. ComCar has a terminal in Jacksonville and all of their companies (CCC, CTL, CT, WSE) hire new drivers. I see a few TMC around here and they have a terminal in Live Oak. Stay away from Cypress, bad news. You may consider getting on with Publix in their distribution center and moving up to driver when you have your time in. They are a top notch company all around. Hope this helps.

 

I wouldn't work for heartland, and I worked for raven for 7 weeks. It took that long to realize what a bunch of braindead idiots they are. I work for Crete, but they hire from a select few schools. Once you have a year under your belt, Crete isn't a bad place to work, as long as you can put up with their rules and regulations. They are very anal about logs, (since you are in jax, you may have heard about the driver that killed those 7 kids a couple of years ago, that's the reason for the strict log policy) and they just turned down their trucks to 62 because of high fuel cost. But even with that, their pay is one of the higher ones in the industry and you can still make a decent living.

 

How about South Carolina????

 

Bush has done the same thing that all the previous administrations have done with NAFTA. Except unlike Clinton, Bush is running out of excuses and legal challanges to keep it from taking effect. Any one seen the flood of Mexican trucks taking over??????? I haven't seen one outside the original trade zone. By what I have heard, most don't want to come up here. Once here, they have to pay the same price for fuel, parts, lumpers, permits, etc... the only cheap thing they get is labor. But they have to pay for a visa or passport to enter the U.S.

 

In fact, the last I heard they are wanting to extend the pilot program due to lack of participation. Everyone blames Bush for it but just remember, it was Bill Clinton who signed the treaty forcing the hand of a future president to follow through.

 

I spoke with a representative from ComCar who had no trouble getting me a position with one of their companies. Only problem was they were paying an unrealistic low mileage rate. I believe it averaged out to somewhere around $29K-$30K a year.