Things to look for and ask for starting your 1st Cdl A Job as a rookie

They worry it for you. You’ve nothing to worry about. You’re covered!

Melton isn’t bad at all - they were my favorite of 25+ solid biggy company offers I had out of school. Ab fab - my 1st and only big company pick out of many. I attended 2 days of orientation with them before heading home to a last minute local job offer. Melton was the most appealing to me of the big companies. I only left because OTR was a last resort for me. I was holding out for something local and gave up patience a week too soon.

For me, Melton, that was a creme de la creme offer for a bigger OTR company. Truly stellar.

They’ll provide you with a decent hotel room, transport locally, breakfast and lunch and a bus trip there. I opted to rent a car and they reimbursed me for a certain amount.

As a matter of fact - they were even gracious enough to pay my way home when I was truthful about getting a different offer. That’s classy!

If circumstances changed and I became interested in OTR - I’d certainly go with Melton. They told me I’m welcome back anytime. I still get calls from them. I believe they’re fabulous.

A classmate of mine went to the same orientation date as me, continued on and absolutely loves it.

 

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P.S. - I left Melton to do local flatbed with zero driving exp. Relax! I’d wager OTR flatbed is less stressful than local (9 coils today).
Best of luck!

 

One of my questions was idle policy/APU cause I have a CPAP I gotta run at night.

 

Someone posted on here that Melton's new trucks don't have diesel APU. That may not be true, so call and ask.
System Transport still has diesel APU though.

 

yes the new trucks do not have an apu, that being said most likely you will not get a new truck. Melton is still merging all their trucks to autos if that's not a deal breaker.

 

I remember reading that like 6 years ago when I was first considering a cdl. Absolutely hillaruous. Grossly....and I do mean GROSS....exaggerated most likely, but funny none the less.