Just got CDL, who do i go with?

I have contacts with several of those carriers you just listed. Last I heard several of them will not hire without at least 24 months experience. I will not name them until I get a chance to call or send an email to my contacts and verify because I may be wrong now.

Edited to add: It is not so much that they bend their rules because most of the time these are insurance driven. It is many are not fully starter companies, but have a limited amount of training situations available. Your right APPLY you have nothing lose, but don't get your hopes up to high.

 

We need to catch up didn't realize you are from Charlotte.

 

I know it sounds like I am "picking" and maybe I am but my intent is so new CDL holders get good reliable information. If a driver has been through company sponsored training the hiring company should have already made them a conditional Job offer and they should be set. However many drivers get CDLs through tech schools and through government paid training. Most of these get job offers because their schools have good placement histories because they give a #### and have great people in these offices. I am friends with many of such people. However unfortunately there are schools that just go through the motions or not at all and leave the new CDL holder in a lurch. These guys are often times bewildered by what I will call the system. I spent several hours a few weeks ago talking to such a driver that finished a school right here in Hampton Roads. We drivers that grew up in trucking like myself and others that have drove since Moses was a pup sometimes don't understand how confusing it is. This is one reason I will not post carriers willy nilly. Unless you are 100% sure a company will hire a recent school grad I think you should restrain and not post. Just in this thread alone I could post maybe 50 names of carriers I restrain because I don't know all these carriers or their training or hiring policies. If a new CDL holder comes in these forums and asks these questions and then gets a few carriers names and makes contact with 3 or 4 carriers in row that won't hire they can get very discouraged and just drop out and not use the CDL. The guy I just refereed to was such a case. (it was another website not TTR) In his case I told him to contact USA Truck and today he is with a trainer and happy as a clam. I don't own this website and I know people have the best of intentions but I am not kidding you can rip the heart right out of a new CDL holder doing this. abusus non tollit usum.

 

Don't jump on the first job offer; shop around with several companies. Remember, if you plan to stay in the truck for long periods of time, for example, running coast to coast then ask what the companies idle policy is and do they have diesel APU. If no diesel APU, do they have EPU and do they allow inverters so you can have refrigerator, tv, computer, etc.

 

Actually I don't recommend you call just yet. See if Schneider does online applications and fill one out. If Schneider can use you or are interested further believe me they will call you.

 

Do online applications before calling; then call and say "I'm checking on my job application."

 

1600 miles because HOS impacts? Please explain.

 

I doubt he'd even have to call. An online application with Schneider should bring a phone call by the end of the day. 2 days tops. Pretty much what @Exrayman4000 said. OP, I don't know of any positions at Schneider that start from day 1 at .37 cpm. Bulk maybe but they put the brakes on hiring inexperienced drivers going into the winter because of lack of freight. That's pretty much why I wound up going Dedicated.

 

On a side note I saw a really nice Old Dominion commercial on ESPN. Not a recruiting commercial at all. It was for whoever need there freight moved etc.