Dealing with a shady recruiter

Whether you meant it as an insult or not, I'm not taking offense, but I think you're missing the point. I've chained plenty of times before. And who said anything about "shutting down every time it's snowing"? It's always a judgment call. Plenty of times when it snows, but not thick enough to cake up on the roads, and so no need to chain at all. There are times when snow is coming down in sheets so thick, you can't see more than 10 ft in front of you on the road. Other times when there's nothing more than frozen sleet coming down, but the local DOT has put the chain law into effect anyway, because of what they're anticipating. If you refer back to the text of my original post, I was asking about what the company's policy is on chaining. Why am I asking about that? For those who have never dealt with a dispatcher before. When the conditions get nasty enough, that the only logical call to make is to shut it down, chain up if you have to, in order to just get off the road to a truck stop, wait for the snow to let up, and the road crew to plow and salt the roads. That's when I want to know if I'm gonna be getting an annoying phone call from some jerkoff, sitting behind a desk in a nice warm cozy office, b**ching at me because I'm sitting still, despite having signed a document in orientation, acknowledging that company's requirement of drivers to "chain up when required by conditions". Get what I was asking now?

 

A lot of companies offer drivers based in western states, western regional positions, or as most of them like to call it, "11 western", but the majority of those companies that do offer it, are usually the ones that happen to be based in one of those 11 western states (NM, CO, WY, MT, and everything west of the Rockies). Celadon, based out of Indy, is rare to be offering that kind of thing, but I have talked to plenty of other companies, east of the Rockies that do also offer it.
And like I said, they're not at the top of my list of the companies I'm looking at, but I'm weighing all my options. I wouldn't say that everything the recruiter has offered me thus far, stinks. Just problem is, I'm trying to get to the truth behind what he is offering me, and what's the usual bs to try to get me in through the door.

 

Lol. Not all recruiters always lie, all the time, in my experiences. Some of them do, because they just plain and simple just gotta get you in through that door, one way or another, and they just don't care what they've gotta tell you to do so. Some other recruiters, if I level with them about what I'm looking for, and what I'm willing to compromise on, will shoot straight with me. But regardless of the company or recruiter, there's nothing you or I can do to control what comes out of another person's mouth.