Finding work

YOU

need to call them !!!!!!!

 

I hate to tell you, but many times after NOT driving for as little as 30 days, you're going back to school.

"Sounds like", Waste Management, am I right??

Since you are "refusing" to go with any "big starter companies"(???) you sealed your fate. This is YOUR PROBLEM, for refusing to go (OTR and such), ASAP right out of school.

So what, no matter the length of time, you "put up and shut up" and get it done. Obviously, you think that you are above and beyond the requirements of starting in this business. We have ALL HAD TO do things to get started one way or another.

We "just did it".

Now many of us, (i know me for example), have been in this industry for over 20-25 years, and I CAN go where I WANT TO, REFUSE ANY JOB I WANT TO.

But you as a newbie??

You got no such "leverage" to even say, "BOO" to anyone.

 

stop calling them and just go to the office.

Or call the secretary and make an appt.

 

in miami fl,

that office may be a LONG ways away...........

 

I know. Rural Minnesota isn't much better.

But when you are talking full-time employment, it's a small investment.

It's also tax-deductible for job seeking expenses. So record and keep those receipts/expenses too.

 

First things first . No good company is going to come to you .

It is your job to go to them and prove that you are worth their time to hire and train you and not some other hot shot wannabe right out of any monkey can be a truck driver school .

I have never gotten a job or quit a job without looking the man I am going to or have been driving for in the eye before doing either one .

If you want to work for someone you need to convince them that you are the best thing out there and they would be doing a disservice to them and their company by not hiring you .

They get phone calls and emails all day long from lazy arse people you need to be at their door when they open and check back with them until they tell you to leave them alone or they are calling the cops !!!

When they ask when you can start tell them you have clothes in the car and can leave right now if needed. Be as willing to do whatever it takes to get the job!

You dont have to let them screw you to death but just remember that you will be tested to see if you can hack it so suck it up and get the job done .

That is just the way I have done it in the past and it has always worked for me but like any other advise it may not work for you .

So good luck and don't stop looking

 

Squeaky wheel gets the grease!

This career is going to be an uphill battle for you if this is the way you approach things. No one is going to babysit you and you will find yourself sitting in your truck for days on end at the truck stop. You need to be very, very proactive for yourself in this industry or you aren't going to make it. I think you have gotten a few months of experience on that already!