First trucking Job interview!

A month of school and I have a new career! Its nice to fill out an application, and actually have folks anxious to talk to you!

I put in a few, but fastenal got back to me in less than 12 hours. They have regional routes and are building a hub in my town. Sounds like its anout and back twice a week thing, maybe two overnights in a trucks, with a rythhm of four days running hard and three days off. Heard some of the more established folk run 3 days a week and pulling down great money. I looked up threads on site, and I have heard nothing but good things from people I have talked to that work for them. I am of course interested in opinions on here.

I had a big desire to go into tankers, but most work for that here is in tacoma and seattle, which I don't like, and put me with a very difficult commute.

Pros for fastenal seem to be:
some good exercise, pull up to store and drop cargo by hand, no wait for load or unload. I want to get really good at backing, but won't have to do a bunch of hard backs at the end of a long run. I'll take easy.
Positive from everyone I know who has worked for them.
A bit of everything in driving, seeing beautiful country, and I think a regional job would prep me better for one day owning a truck than driving around the port in a tanker. I still think tanker would be fun but there doesnt seem to be the market for o/o. Please correct me if wrong.


Anything I should be aware of for an interview? I have one ticket for 5mph over so that should not be too hard to explain. Other than that I plan on doing a warm up drive the day before with my school who offers that, since it will have been a week since I have been in a truck.

Anyone know if they use uniforms? I hope they don't, but not a huge issue.

I feel like not having to deal with a bunch of shipping and recieving is nice, but may not be the best training for one day owning a company. I may
Well find myself happy with the gig, and the company seems to want to make it good enough so you stay. The recruiter I talked to gave it to me pretty straight, and I didn't feel like he was exaggerating anything.

 

Yeah, I know they aren't excited to talk to me because of anything about me personally, or even thats its all
To my advantage. Even if I am just fresh meat for the grinder it feels good to have replies to resumes. I had a lot of education, experience, etc in my last field but it seems like when things went to heck I couldn't get anyone to give me the time of day.

 

Thanks to all! Glad to hear more positive about company. I worry that I'm settling for the first thing. I would rather move some freight by hand than bump a dock and hope for a short wait.