Change of career

Welcome Tom! What town are you from? I am from Rumford.

 

Northeast Technical Institute has a good program; 10 weekends of classes for the CDL. Get your CDL while still working full time.

 

Imho I'd say here "have a goal"
you'll blink and years went by, days are number squeezing through on in our log books and most of the special days will be missed.
Get in, get what you want, and go back to a normal life.
some of us have fallen onto the "Stockholm syndrome" and no matter how messed up it is we won't leave.

Good luck to ya.

 

I went to NTI in Bangor and they have a really good program there!

If you want tanker you can haul milk for either Lyle Peirce, Clark Milk Transport, or M.A. Haskell.
For fuel haulers you got JP Noonan, Deadriver, and Fabian.
Abenaqui, Irving, H.O. Bouchard and Hartt require at least 1 year TT exp.

If you want something else, try Sysco, PFG, Dennis Paper, Ross Express, ABF, Estes, and Central Transport. Some of them may require a year of TT exp.
I work for PFG NorthCenter. Its a lot of hard physical work, but it pays well, good benefits, home nights, weekends off, and its usually just a 4 day work week. We do 5 days in summer when its busy and new guys will have to do Saturdays, but its only for 8 weeks.

And then there are several otr companies to choose from. What ever you decide to do is up to you, but do your research on companies and choose carefully. Where ever you do go, try to stay at least one year and good luck with a new career.

 

There's several 100% no-touch freight companies around:

Pride Transport
Ozark Motor Lines
Celadon

Plenty more, but that's all I can think of right now.

 

Read your post with interest as I'm starting CDL school in Massachusetts soon and now seeking good companies to get started with serving the Northeast. Would be great to hear what you've learned. Thanks.