Trucking Companies and Schools Database

Sounds like a good idea. I know you can get most of the policies and such online from the different company sites but to have it all here would be very informative and beneficial especially for smaller less known companies and ones that don't have the info on their site. Some that come to mind would be detention pay, breakdown pay, layover pay, cpm/% pay, hometime policy, pet policy, req. exp., equipment (make, manual/auto, apu, inverters, trailers, sleeper size, etc.), rider policy, insurance policy/rates, avg. weekly mi./driver over previous year, 401k, tuition reimbursement, contact info, qualcomm poilicy, fleet size, primary running areas, hiring areas, pay policy (comdata, direct deposit, etc.), use of DAC, terminal locations, training availability, safestat ratings, financial standings, and any other facts about the company.

 

Try to obtain detailed information from the trucking companies about the areas they are currently hiring. i.e. the U.P. of MI.

 

I would think a project like this would need to be community-edited, but that's probably too ambitious - going through and updating only yearly is going to result in a lot of stale information, since a lot of it (pay, hiring status, etc.) probably changes almost weekly.

How many staff are going to work on this? Cataloging every trucking school in the nation (let alone the trucking companies) is quite a feat.

 

Acredidation, cost, length, days nights weekends, instructor student ratio, need permit before starting or not, equipment

 

I would say the way some schools are taking students knowing they are not hireable would be do you have job placement or what about refresher courses for those that have not been hired in the window most co's want?