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You have plenty of time to shop around then.
USA Truck would be a better choice.
Southern Refrigerated Transport might give you a shot, if you don't mind doing teams to the west coast. They also have solo positions.

 

Lots of drop & hook for one thing. Research both companies on here; upper right hand corner of this page is the search.
Try Contract Freighters Inc. also. Coast to coast dry van.

 

Swift has a good terminal in Greer, SC. I did two years with them as a company driver, before moving into my current gig. I know there's a lot of Swift bashing on this forum, but I did well with them. That two years laid the foundation for what I do now.

I believe Greer is a good terminal for flatbed with Swift, if you are so inclined. Flatbed will open more doors of opportunity for you than pulling only dry van. My one regret during my stint with Swift is I didn't do flatbed. I was a raw rookie when I came aboard the company I am with now, in terms of load securement.

But, as Chinatown said, you may need to take what you can get to start with. Keep a good driving record and plan your next moves from there.

 

How often do you need to be home?

The reason I ask is another option might be in oil field work. West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and eastern Ohio are in the middle of the Marcellus formation. Oil field companies can't hire enough drivers. There's a premium on crew members for fracking operations that have a CDL.

This kind of job has ALL the "Three D's": Dirty, Difficult, and Dangerous. The things you will need to do with a truck, going where a truck shouldn't go, will melt your mind. You will end up driving all kinds of different equipment and NONE of it has automatic transmissions. But I guarantee after a year or two you will be able to get into any truck with any company and drive it like a true professional.

This might require being on a job site for a month at a time, then drive trucks to a new job site or get some generous home time in between jobs. Most of these jobs will mean working a job on the Frack crew or being a rough neck on an oil rig in between moving sites.

There are also companies that serve the industry with flatbed, or provide drivers on a "drive away" program. Moving a frack site means moving dozens of trucks, of all kinds. Maybe only 10 crew hands have a CDL, so the company contracts for another company to supply DA drivers. On a frack move you might get to drive three different trucks in a day. Oversize and overweight, Hazmat, or maybe even a crane. All kinds of different MANUAL transmissions going through STEEP dirt roads in sometimes slippery conditions.

It's a hurry up education.