Recruiter Phone Call

Just call one and you'll certainly find out very quickly!

 

Some of these people just work from their home , nowhere near the business. They dodge questions about trucks, etc. They are just trying to get an app out of you to do a background check. They are like a secretary or screener. If you look half decent and no red flags they pass it to safety.

 

Remember, you can drive a truck, they can't. Get a pen and paper and write down what you want to know and check it off. Then make notes on what they say. If they talk money ask for an email confirmation. Hope half of what they say is accurate. Then go online and Google the company for employee gripes. It can be telling.

 

Recruiters are trying to do exactly that. Recruit.

The way I see it, you are doing reconnaissance. In talking with the recruiter you should be doing the interviewing and asking all of the questions that you want to know especially about pay breakdown pay layover pay detention pay mileage pay percentage pay vacation time Home time, etc.

Keep track of what they say in like the other person said let them send you written confirmation on the pay and what they're going to promise you because the recruiters will lie because their job is to recruit.

Your job is to interview them and to weed through who is giving you the BS and who is going to give you the better job.

So if I were you I would think of it as you are doing the interviewing.

 

Start calling random trucking companies so to get used to recruiters, or the owner of a small company. Just say your looking at carriers to consider Applying to.

 

It is more you interviewing them than them interviewing you. In this market getting a job is the easy part. Finding a company that will treat you with respect and pay you what you deserve is the hard part. Relax, take a deep breath and you will be fine.