30,000 Applications per year?

I read thru the entire email and then looked around the website a bit but could not find any real details.

 

They were one of those companies that got huge advertising on youtube through some sketchy characters. Then after a lot of people signed up and got first hand experience they jumped ship back to wherever they came from. Same thing happened with travel Loco a while back.

 

Companies can say anything they want. You are assuming the statement is true, and many of us are saying you should not assume what a trucking company is saying in an email is true. It might be true or it might be a lie they created so the people that get that email think they are one of the very few selected to receive such an invitation to work at such a company. Trucking is full of liars, not everyone. But because it is spread across a huge country and most people in the industry are always moving around you can tell a lie to a stranger you you may never see them again, ever. People lie. Some people lie daily. Don't believe everything you read.

 

Turnover is a fickel mistress and while I can't speak on the company OP listed; I can say that some companies are more 'selective' than others.
When I left the Chem tanker side of trucking where expereince was throughly documented and the insurance bar was high [1ticket or accident in the past 3 years] to the intermodal side I know I had to change my expectations to meet the drastically lower 'standard'.

After three years of 100% turnover [we had 165 owner operators at ten locations] where I retired 167, 166, and 165 files for my first 3 years; I realized why the 'standards' were less.

A container of consumer goods is a lot less insurance exposure that hauling loads of "1.2.Kill Ya Quick".

 

Why would they lie?
What possible motivation could a used car salesman or a pharmaceutical company or a paid-by-the-head trucking recruiter have to not be 100% honest - don't they know God is watching?

 

About that 30,000 figure. I would be willing to bet that less than 5,000 of those applications get past the computer algorithm. One such is an address. ALL US Addresses can be checked. If you don't live in the proper location your application won't make it through. These applications will sit until a set time and will get purged. If not enough applications are sent in the company can adjust these settings. 30,000 applications are just over 80 applications 365 days a year. My daughter discovered this address thing last year when she tried to order a pizza with Marco's pizza online. They would not accept my address. She had to call the order in. As to that 2% figure that depends on how many job openings they have. Good carriers with low turnover rates generally won't hire many drivers because they have enough warm bodies in the trucks!

 

What they didn't say is that 28,000 of those applications came from India, Pakistan, Eastern Europe, and Africa.

 

Guess what, you will be in the 2% if you got the experience they require.and a decent driving record.

 

They also claim to be the second or third highest paying company in the country. Oddly enough, I’ve worked for two companies since them that have paid more. Not sure how that math works out.

They are a good carrier if you’re interested, but they’re certainly not some crazy good, unmatched carrier. I’d work there again if I had to without complaint, and would recommend them to people, but there’s plenty of other carriers that can offer the exact same thing or better than them. They take hyping themselves up on social media and advertisements to another level — almost feels like a cult. They hired me at 21 with only local experience, so that should answer how stringent they are with hiring.

 

Walmart Transportation would tell ppl similar things after you were hired. Like out of 473 applications you were #7 to hire on out of that pool. And there would always be someone in the orientation saying man were we lucky to get on at such a great place. Not sure if they do that anymore since they can't seem to keep drivers now.