Driver apprenticeship programs LTL

Driver Apprentice- Road in Saint Clair, Missouri | FedEx Freight

 

If your wanting to go Fedex Freight. Go apply for a dock position. It gets cold and dock workers will start quitting. You will have you foot in the door. And in the spring they should hire from the dock rather than from the street.

 

I would tell you not to go into LTL right away unless the carrier offers a training program of some sort.

you’ll fudge some feces up doing LTL as a rookie. No one really truly trains you to back down a cul de sac or a snake shaped road with low hanging trees in a 48fter. No one really prepares you on how to set yourself up to back into a dark hole in a 53 located right off of a main road with oncoming traffic either.

 

Yellow is the LTL #####. Decent pay and miles but lacking in benefits. Estes has a dock to driver program and if you run extra board you’ll start out at .685 cpm. ABF has an unbelievable insurance package. My father drives for them. They treat their drivers right.

 

Isn’t Yellow a teamster company?

 

Yellow has the same benefits as ABF.

 

I think you got that backwards. Yellow is far below in pay than other competitor LTL companies, and their insurance benefits are very good.

 

Yellow is an upcoming consolidation between our parent company YRC, and its subsidiaries USF Holland, USF Reddaway, and New Penn. We are supposed to merge by 1/22/22.

While many of us are union, some will most definitely be non union. It will all depend what his gaining barn used to be with if he chooses to go that route.

 

As a full-time YELLOW employee you’ll receive amazing benefits:

• 100% paid healthcare for you AND your family
• Great pay. Road drivers first year expected income $60-65k plus
• Paid holidays, vacation, and sick days
• Great home time
• Company paid hotel for overnights
• When the wheels stop moving we still pay you: hourly pay for load delay/layover

 

Think "outside the box"...

Another great option....besides LTL....is tanker.

As a fuel hauler myself, I have yet to talk to a driver in the tanker world who felt like going tanker was a mistake.

Their "mistake"...if there was one, was not getting into tanker duty, sooner!

Hauling fuel, I routinely meet drivers for Love's (Gemini Motor Transport) at the fuel racks.

I have yet to talk to one who was disgruntled, and/or looking for another job.

Thus--I would submit, that Chinatown's recommendation above for Gemini Transport (Love's) is indeed a great one.

Another perk, with tanker (especially, hauling fuel): no backing down snake-shaped roads...or cul-de-sacs.

With tanker, you're through bumping docks. Period.

If you get your tanker & hazmat endorsements before you talk to any relevant tanker employers, they will understand that you mean business (but of course, you'll need those for LTL work, as well).

Bonus points with the tanker world if you have a TWIC card beforehand, too.

--Lual