Advice for Flatbed Company that will train me to succeed.

Which town in Indiana is the terminal in?

 

tl;dr Great company if you have experience; I cannot vouch for it's training because my trainer left.

I worked there several years ago. It was my first trucking job out of school. I can vouch for it being an excellent company. I cannot vouch for it's training. My trainer, who left the company shortly after finishing training me, was a 21 year old, third generation trucker. He had a big hot head. He was constantly told me "Ed wants us to [perform a task] this way but he's a ####ing idiot." The trainer wouldn't let me secure the load by myself or drive the entire two weeks of "TrAiNiNg" (sarcasm added). Long story short, I had no idea what I was doing when I was finished with training. Honestly probably shouldn't have been behind the wheel alone after "training" with them--but I was too inexperienced and eager to work to know that.

That being said, the trainer left shortly after training me so this is likely not an issue anymore. Results may vary.

As far as the company itself is concerned, the work is honest, you won't be mislead. The mechanic (and terminal manager assisting him) are excellent at what they do. The truck is going to have something wrong with it almost every week; but, that is simply the nature of a ~25 year old truck. Report what's wrong with it immediately and you'll get a spare the next day while they fix your truck. There was even a time I recall an airbag popped while going through Knoxville from Birmingham (I don't recall my destination, but I was not going directly back to Clarksville, IN). The terminal manager, Ed, was able to coach me on how to secure the line with zip ties and vinyl tape over the phone. They got it fixed properly basically immediately once I returned.

 

What's the name of the company?
Spelling didn't come out right: tl;dr Great company if you have experience

 

The same company GhostInTheMachine was talking about, Capacity Logistics in Clarksville (or Jeffersonville) Indiana.

"tl;dr" simply means "Too long; didn't read" and its saying that line is a summary of the three paragraphs I wrote, in case anyone didn't want to read all three paragraphs.

 

I believe it's Clarksville. I had to look it up after seeing this. The mill is in Jeffersonville.

 

5921 US-31, Clarksville, IN 47129