Are There Other Options?

Use the google

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/jobs4newtruckers/
http://www.fleetdirectory.com/bylocation/florida.htm
http://www.bigrigjobs.com/Trucking_Carrier_Listing/Florida.html

 

May trucking my company hires out of p cola

 

Try Rohel, they hire out of Florida, but I don't know if they will get you in the Miami area. They have a drop yard in Jacksonville.

 

Apparently I did a double post-- sorry. My post is below.

 

I'm no expert, and I am a newbie myself, but I am also an older person and have seen this kind of thing again and again. If you live nowhere in the middle of farmland, you have to go to the city to get the job. If CRST is the only one to reply to you, and you can't move to another area, you suck it up and go with them for a year, and then switch jobs to something you like better. If you read this forum a bit, you will find that this is a central theme. I have learned to silent my "great expectations," and know that I will need to be a soldier and do my time like everyone else before I can start asking for things. Your first year is about learning and gaining experience. As a new driver, you'll get the worst loads, the worst home time and so on anyway. You cope and adapt. I think the only option is to move to St. Petersburg.

Also, even though many people print negative things about a company that does not mean that they will screw you. After you get a year of hard time in, you then will be able to pick and chose a bit. Like someone said in a great post I read, (and which deepened my understanding) they are not there to make things convenient for the driver. This is all about customer service, and you are not the customer they are talking about.

Someone also said that you have to look at your first year as though you were in the military, going through boot camp and deploying to a war zone. There is no "home time." You are lucky if you get it once in a while. As you prove your value to the company, they treat you better, but at the beginning you are pretty interchangeable with any other goof off the street they can find.

I too, came into this thinking I could pick and choose. Now I'm thinking more like I am glad to have a job that pays anything.

 

Yes and May is a reefer co so they might be able to get you to south FLorida. Many dry box companies dont go to south Florida b/c there isnt much freight for a dry van down there and if you do find freight its cheap paying. Gotta remember tho from Pensacola to North Miami Beach is between 650-700 miles, thats a long ride to get home when you are just coming off the road, been there done that. I live 45 miles east of Pensacola and many companies didnt hire from my area, not much freight even tho I-10 are I-65 are nearby. Your 1st year is rough in all aspects,but hang in there it gets better....kinda. Back in '89, my 1st year, I hired on with Wingate Taylor Made (anybody remember them?) out of Albany, GA for 18 cents a mile and I was glad to have it . I routinely was kept away from home 4-6 weeks and then they would only get me into the Albany terminal so I still had a 100 mile trip home, that was a long ride after 4 weeks in a truck, a cabover truck yet.