First interview with Dot Foods.

Yes, all the trucks are automatic. I tell you its a dream when stuck in Boston traffic. There are a lot of pros and con's, but pros outweigh the con's. Home time depends on what schedule you'd fall into and what you like doing. Local drivers run Mon-fri usually the full 14 hr day, but your home pretty much every night. I do 3 loads a week beginning on Sunday. Home Mon, weds, Fri nights and full day off Sat. They could also run you out for a whole week, everyone has to rotate through that to be fair. I personally like doing it and going out west once in a while for some carefree trucking. New England takes its toll on you mentally with the congestion and low bridge, weight restrictions.

 

Training is usually 8 weeks long unless you have experience. In NY they give you a week in the yard, week in classroom, then 6 weeks with different trainers. Your first few runs will be transfers to get windshield time to get you comfortable. Transfers for NY go from DC to DC or to drop locations. We in NY drop in London, Oh- Ft. Chiswell, Va- Cambridge City, IN right in front of our IN DC, Lebanon, IN to meet Illinois drivers and bring back product for due outs. There are other drop points but these are our main ones along with going to the DC'S themselves. Illinois also does Shuttle runs, full delivery loads you meet the driver so they can drag them the rest of the way to the customers. I've gone to Numerous different places with theses.

Training pay is kind of hard to get by on if your in Debt, its only $500/wk but you also get your meals free while working.

 

Thanks for the info

 

I've found DOT is very particular about verifying all prior employment and employment gaps. If they can't get in touch with who they need to get in touch with to verify employment/unemployment, your app process will stop there and they will maybe not call the applicant to see about getting a better contact means. So if you worked somewhere that is no longer in business or was bought out, you may have difficulty getting through the verification process at DOT.

 

hello guys
I have got the call from Dot Foods and they told me i could come up anytime for my interview. But i have one problem they gave me a number of a driver and the driver wont answer or call me back so now i want to know how this company really is I've seen the smoke in mirrors before. I'm ready to do something different driving wise so if any one can tell me any thing about this company beside they r good to work for i need to know more than that about a company

 

No I understand I've been there too. But I would like to know if the money is there and the time off is like the guy said I don't want to jump in to the unknown. He told me 2-2.5 days aweek but I would like to know a steady yearly figure on income and is the days off consecutive or broken up

 

I used to work for them and their interview process can take awhile to do. I remember mine took almost 3 months to complete from the 1st phone call/interview, then there was the in person interview, and then the ride-a-long which you go out with a trainer to see the kind of work they do and to see if that's what you want to do. Then you do 8 weeks a training...1 week in house- paperwork, lots of training videos, road test. Then 7 weeks of training where you will be with a trainer for about 2 weeks and then switch to a different trainer for 2 weeks and then typically be with your final trainer who is typically the driver trainer manager guy who makes the final decision with you.
Good company to work for and you can be making a little over $70k in a couple years. Hopefully there Mt. Sterling location isn't full of BS like their California location is. Also hope you like automatic Volvos.