Falcon Transport, Good or Bad?

My age of 21 is what's killing me, I'm going to try Roehl and Hunt transportation tommorow, Hunt requires you have taken atleast a 240hr class, luckily for me I did. I just want to have talked to as many places as I can.

 

21 is a federal law for interstate.

 

I know that, but most flatbed companies want you to be 23 or older.

Checked PI&I website, 23 or older.

I have a local job when construction picks up, but I can't sit around and wait for my unemployment to run out and me to lose everything.

 

I didnt see if your fresh out of school or if you have some experience but DM Bowman will hire you but most likely put you with a trainer for a couple weeks. Most of their flatbed stuff is local though out of williamsport or fredricksburg--they do require you to be 21 yrs old. Their pay is average but they are a good company to work for with decent benefits. Good luck to ya!

 

I got outta school few month's ago, I have no problem what-so-ever with going with a trainer, I need to get out with a trainer to drive a tractor trailer, especially flatbed. I can drive a straight truck as I have some experience with that, but no tractor trailer other than a 240hr course at a local school.

 

How long you are out of school is going to be a clincher too. You may need a "refresher" course. Falcon pulls dedicated dry van also. I see them in Nashville.

Gotta admit now is a tough time. You'll get something. Keep hanging in there.

I went to driver semi after 1 1/2 years of straight trucks. My driving test was check the oil. Take the owner for a ride down to the 4 lane, do a U turn and take him back to the shop. It was easy as the trailer was a 38ft flat bed 180" tractor.

Those were the days!

My second job driving semi was fuel tanker. I trained at night after hauling sod all day. I would go to Tampa from Ft.Myers, or Ft.Myers to Ft.Lauderdale and home.

 

I'm not willing to take a refresher, I'll go work as a laborer somewhere until construction picks up in spring summer and that local job is there for me driving class B truck. I don't have the money to go for a refersher.

 

Or get a job at a freight company like Estes, Saia, etc working on the dock with them knowing you have a class A.

 

Thank's I'll check the website out. It seems like I may have to wait it out until late spring for that local job, I called alot of places today and they all said they would want a refresher. Sure seems like getting drug through the mud to me. I'm not stupid and willing to throw my money away on a refresher course.

 

That's the way it goes amigo. You want your dream? You do what it takes to make it happen. My school does refresher courses 15 or 30 hours I forgot. My school is 218 hours.

The companies don't write the rules. The insurance companies do. It is what it is.

If you took a 3 week CDL mill school you probably don't know much more than how to get your CDL. I read elsewhere on this site about a woman who is getting a refresher at Swift.

I watched a guy come to my school in the evening who was 61. MVT wouldn't hire him without it. Lots of experience, out of the truck for 6-12 months.