Questions To Ask Recruiters

Ask them if they were born a liar or became one later in life

 

All in writing, signed, please.

 

$50K - $60K plus cdl school tuition reimbursement is pretty much the norm these days.
There's also plenty of decent outfits with the same average pay or a little more that don't have cdl school tuition reimbursement, but still good outfits.
You don't need job postings from the school. They usually have a standard list they use, such as Schneider, Werner, US Express and a couple others.
We can give you good leads on this forum and we won't BS you because it doesn't benefit us one way or the other.

 

You can make inquiries to companies yourself and ask if they will hire you at cdl school graduation:
SRT - www.southernref.com - up to $6000.00 tuition reimbursement
Dot Transportation - www.drivefordot.com - tuition reimbursement program
A&R Transport - www.drivewithar.com - recent graduate from an accredited truck driving school.
Decker Truck Line - reefer division - www.drivedecker.com
Old Dominion Freight Line - new grads from accreditied truck driving school.

 

Home every night and making more $$$ than OTR... Ask them how many cases you have to finger print every day loading and unloading your own truck!!! Or how many pallets you have to roll up and down ramps... Basically how much physical labor is involved... Not that I'm against physical labor, but I want to know about it before I sign that dotted line.

I run OTR and have made just over $32k as of the end of June. 100% no touch freight.

 

And notarized... In triplicate!!!

 

A recruiter will hang up the phone if he feels like he's being interrogated.
Can't blame the recruiter either; it's not like we're applying to be the CEO of some major financial institution. It's just a simple driving job.

 

Will he tuck me into my bunk every night and read me the tales of "making money and not being taken advantage of by a recruiter"

 

You would be lucky to make $50-60k. People don't quite trucking because they are making that much money. You never will get home. Well every 4-6 weeks you will get home.

You can drive about 120,000 miles a year. So just 120,000x your pay per mile. So say 120,000x $0.35 is $42,000 a year. The recruiters love to talk about average pay or our top drivers. If they said you will make $42,000 working for weeks no sounds so good. Then you have a big parking problem in trucking, you need place to park every night but the truck stop fill up. Ask if they going to pay for parking. You have one law saying you can't drive anymore. Then you don't have any place to park.