Which LTL's will hire out of school?

Why wait? We talked to one Terminal Manager before we even went to school to learn more about the industry.

I emailed him to thank him for his time. Kept his contact information. Called him to say that we finished school and had CDL in hand could we bring by updated resumes. Then we were hired....

#TheDream

 

Speedy, what i was saying was they have the dock to driver programs. What you can do if you have any questions is call them. If you start showing interest and taking steps that most do not, that shows you have a higher interest than others. May look good on your part with the TM if you look or actually express interest into any company offering that option is what I was trying to get at.

Some of these companies will hire you to work the docs, without a CDL and go through their training and they do it for next to nothing and you dont have a $5000 school on a contract to pay back if you leave!

 

Reddaway has a dock to driver program. Most ltl companies do. Most of the hiring is done by the tm anyways so it's best to get to know them. The Estes tm just called me because I had talked to him earlier this summer when they weren't hiring and I was the first guy he called looking for a driver. The ltl side of things is pretty small and we all tend to run into each other. When doing city deliveries you might deliver to the same places as fedex, saia or old dominion.

 

Word has it our benefits are worth about $12/hour. Not sure about that.
I am also looking at quitting. What our TM doesn't realize is that 40% of his drivers are slated to quit next year. Some are moving and a few are retiring. I am destined to quit before the winter season starts.

Maybe others have it better where they live. We get micro managed and treated like crap.

We have the lowest pay in the area, yet they treat us like crap. How the hell does that work? I was going on about that several months ago. 20% of our workforce said "F-You" and quit. We can't hire anyone cause we pay the least and we have a reputation of mistreating our drivers.

Our TM's solution... Tighten your belts boys and cover the slack. I was running 30 bills at one point. I came to town with triples, got a text from my dispatcher that someone else was dropping me a 4th trailer to deliver. Happy friggin Friday R/R!

Then they have the audacity to tell me I am riding the clock too long cause I got three hours of OT. As of this writing, our dock workers mutinied and quit. Management's solution... Make the drivers do outbound dock work after running 30 stops a day.

Sorry... Really not posting anything useful for the op. Stay away from Reddaway.

 

How long is the school you chose?

 

Quick word of advice to the op... Get back to the DMV and do your endorsements. You will need everything except for passenger if you want to run LTL. Also figure out how long it will take to get fingerprinted by TSA.
In all cases, my DMV was backed up for weeks and weeks to test on hazmat. I had to flirt with a 400 lbs Montuffalo to get squeezed in between her doing driving tests.

Your odds of landing a LTL job are virtually zero without endorsements.

 

[QUOTE="speedyk, post: 5435699, member: 162834"
Montuffalo...trying not to imagine what that might be. :^)[/QUOTE]

Montuffalo... A Montanan the size of a buffalo