Please Help

I am a wannabe trucker and I need help deciding on a company. I have to go to a company that has a school and I'm willing to sign a contract but I want to pick a good company and not one that I'll be miserable at for a year and get a bad taste in my mouth for the industry. I've all but ruled out Swift for obvious reasons and I'm looking at American Eagle Lines really close and that looks like a good possibility, however right now with the way the economy is I was told by them that they are able to be alot more choosey now as to who they hire and their hiring area is very limited right now. For example I have a spot clean record the only thing that may hold me up is that I have 5 jobs listed in a 3 year span and the only reason why is because I moved alot during those few years it was nothing I could really do about it. Anyway they may hire me and everything maybe alright but I want to have a back up plan just in case. I know right now is not the best time for the industry but I have no doubt it will pick back up stronger than ever. If ya'll could just give me some good starter companies that are good to students and have the least amount of problems it would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you for the insight the reason I said for obvious reasons about Swift is I hear just horrible things about them and not just on this forum. I have looked at USA truck and PAM before, but I heard PAM laid off alot of drivers recently so that kinda scared me away from them. USA is still an option I just didn't know if anyone else knew of any companies that had a school besides Central, Stevens, and the other reefer companies, I'm tryin to stay away from reefer if i can.

 

Have any of ya'll ever heard of Driver CDL Staffing? Supposedly they're a school I looked at their website and called them 3 times got no answer left 3 messages and never got a call back and i applied online and got the standard email letting me know they would be in touch reguarding my application but that I could call them and expedite the process which i did and still got no answer and left another message. Just seems kinda weird to me but I'm new at this so maybe its not weird.