Help.. hiring freeze in Florida

Armellini, used to get some good money on their loads. $2 - $3 a mile + stops back in the early 90's. Light loads, in my case, dropping at florist shops in the middle of the night. Hit the dock, secret code, in the door, hand unload to the walk in, leave the bills and off to the next victim. Worth every penny.

Mike

 

If you live near Tampa, on Columbus & 50th st is CTL/CCC. CTL is a local chemical tanker company that trains drivers on 5 & 6 spd MACK trucks. You must have a HAZMAT endorsement. It not a OTR and they are not 9-13 spd trucks, but they can give you the experience you need to start, be home everyday, pay is not bad for economy compared to OTR training pay. The dispatcher and the rest of the Admin staff were really easy to get along with and as long as you stay within your 12 hr time frame of driving daily, you can make extra money by pulling another load. They pay by load, not by mileage. Slip seating trucks as well since they run 24/7 365. You work 5 nights a week with a guaranteed 2 days off a week, but I sometimes volunteered to work a 6th day just to make extra $$.
CCC in the same terminal lot does the OTR, but very few are hired to that job as the positions are filled. I drove for CTL until I went back into the Navy. I went through National Truck School in Green Cove Springs, FL and the Navy paid for it, but I liked driving locally and it kept my skills up as a driver. Not by the experience you would receive OTR and shifting with gears higher than 6, but with daily traffic and sometimes hitting the interstate, was not so bad.
A job is a job, especially in these times. Hope this helps.

 

armellini run teams only according to their website.

 

Florida is the worst place for sure. It will, most likely, get much, much worse once all the retirees in Florida get cut off from the automakers and others. Florida is, just like one other poster said, a consumer and retiree area. So you could think of Florida as America's blackhole...everything goes in, nothing comes out, lol.

Most companies won't hire out of Florida because it is hard to get them back out and the one's they already have on need to get home, etc. I am sorry to hear all this happen to you. But, seriously, I would move out of Florida if I wanted to get started and move back if you want. Now, if you lived in New Jersey, you would have these companies licking your boots right now. GL!

 

My cousin just got a job with windy hill. He is currently on the road with his trainer and he says he likes it. They sound like a good family run company and my cousin says it is pretty relaxed. They do floral like armellini but I think a good part of their drivers are single drivers. Sounds like the run mostly midwest-eastcoast. Typical floral. Terminals in Fl and Wi

 

I believe he left out wed night. His trainer is curtis. I just talked to him and they are shut down in Tenn. because of weather. I guess they don't have to deliver till mon. in Wisconsin and the company didn't want them to be on the roads.