Driving student has questions for interview.

1. Airgas
2. 2 years
3. The money, home every day and weekends off. Paid holidays aren't bad either.
4. 11 years total
5. Driver hygiene
6. Stay away from the #### companies.
7. Can't give advice. Never been an OO.

 

1. Horizon West
2. Going on 4yrs
3. Freedom, no one micro managing you.
4. 30 plus yrs.
5. Go back to Regulate trucking like the old days.
6. Start with a small company .
7. Work a few years as a company driver,and ask all kinds of questions. Last save a bunch money.

 

Answers are in red becuase I couldn't keep them straight without them in front of me lol

 

1. What company do you work for? Transport Services Unlimited
   
2. How long have you been with your company? 4.5 years
   
3. What is one thing you like about working for that company? No hand holding, micromanaging.
   
4. How long have you been a driver? 14.5 years
   
5. What is the #1 thing you would change about the industry? Reduce the amount of regulations and red tape.
   
6. What advice would you give someone entering the industry? Start small
   
7. What advice would you give an aspiring owner operator? Can't do that, I'm not there yet.

 

You cannot substitute forum input for actual face to face with truckers in the truckstop, buy them coffee and listen to what they tell you.

With that said, I'll just summarize your list of questions by stating I got 30 years more or less in companies that are no longer with us all due to a variety of lawbreaking greedy motivation that buried them when the 1994 rules came along for the CDL and eventually really buried them.

Get through your first year or two, and never stop learning. What you learn today might not be used for a couple decades, but when something pops up where that filed knowledge applies use it.

Your first year is the most dangerous. You alone decide if you have a future or not.

 

1. What company do you work for? Hood River Juice
2. How long have you been with your company? 10 years
3. What is one thing you like about working for that company? Pulling food grade tank, and having the ability to have my dog with me on the truck.
4. How long have you been a driver? 21 years
5. What is the #1 thing you would change about the industry? More, safe parking.
6. What advice would you give someone entering the industry?
7. What advice would you give an aspiring owner operator?

 

Congratulations . job well done.
When you start your trucking job ask all the questions you want. the only dumb question is the one you don't ask.