Millis update

Hey Spanky (or anyone really), where are your main freight lanes with Millis?
Is it mostly beer, bottles and paper?

Just curious, could you shed some light?

Have they gotten any T660's yet?

K, stay safe guys....... Thanks!

 

we run mainly east of the mississippi river with some runs to texas and california. run alot between wisconsin and chicago area to georgia and southeast. run mainly beer, glass bottles into the brewering and paper. also run alot between wisconsin and the northeast. only have 1 t660 over the road truck and a few that are regoinal trucks. we mainly use the t2000 and the t600 and a few cascadias for over the road trucks. most of the southeast regoinal trucks are the freightliner columbias.

 

Thanks spanky!

southeast regional ? got any info on that? does millis have any dedicated?

just curious.

So do you hit alot of the same spots all the time with the beer and bottles?

Thanks again.

 

the southeast regoinal runs out of georgia have to live in georgia or the surrounding states and the dedicated we have is for budweiser in georgia being in southwest in i dont know what they will have besides over the road.

 

Fixing to start back to work, found a job doing what I was doing before I was laid off. I took a motorcycle trip up to Ohio last week, was funny seeing Werner pulling the AB trailers after only seeing Millis pulling them around here. Take care......

 

Depending on where you are in the country depends on what carrier is pullinf the AB loads. (I'm sure you know that though) Around St Louis it's all about J B Hunt. Up in Oswego NY it is Gypsum Express. You see Werner has Ohio locked down.

 

Does anybody know if Millis hires student drivers that have there cdl but did not get it through MTI? I am going to be starting a training program next week at a local college where I live and was curious if they require you to have previous experience if you are coming from another training facility other than MTI?

 

I was told you have to attend their school unless you have at least 1 year experience.

 

Hello IL newbie. I too am from IL and have been accepted to the millis program and should be starting class on august 24th.

I am far from knowing anything about anything nor do i get paid for the litlle bit i do know, but one thing is for sure.

If you have no experience , you will have to go through Millis training regardless if you took classes or not.

I am personally ALL for this and consider myself nothing more than a very dumb truckdriver wannabe, who will be at my trainers mercy, willing to suck up every bit of OTR knowledge I can like a thirsty sponge.

This is IMO, one of the best companies you could work for as a new driver starting out, and have one of the better plans to pay for it as well.

The way I see it, there is no way not even in 15 years of driving you can know it all or have enough training( JMHO)

 

From what i've read, MTI is pretty fast paced in the classroom. They cram alot of stuff into a 3 week class, then send you out with a trainer for another 5 weeks or less. During that time with your trainer, is when you test out in your home state when he thinks you are ready. That is one step you can skip with your cdl in hand. So, I believe that going to a community college for training and getting your cdl, then going to MTI, is not a bad choice. Some will say why spend the extra money, but I look at it as, the more training the better. Plus, you could qualify for a government grant and the CC won't cost you a dime.