Future driver .... starting to plan to get in the industry....

You can probably make a lot more money finding a carrier in your area. There's lots of flatbed companies and tankers in your area. Gas and oil is big industry and also containers from the ports. Besides this, sugar, paper, rice, seafood, logging, etc... are also big in Baton Rouge. I go through there 3 times a week on the way out to Texas and we usually cut across 190 to Opelousas then up to Shreveport. Off of 190 I have seen a ton of companies hiring for drivers in your area. Also right there in Shreveport is Tango. I have heard they are a decent company.

Stay away from the mega-carriers! You have to many other great options. Your chances of success with a smaller company are significantly higher than at one of those mega-carriers who is just going to use you for cheap labor!

Good luck....

 

IF your an experienced driver , do like i did go take the tests , renew your cdl and get a job working for a local company , get your seat time up and then move on..... No sense working to pay off a trucking school then get stuck with a trainer working for nothing then being locked into a year to pay off the schooling you don't need. Most schools just teach you to pass a dmv skills test anyway btw i called jb hunt and i had to have min 6 months recent experience if i remember correctly. I am going on a reefer team gig for a local outfit. Running c2c pays good and non of this rob the newbie bs.... I swear half the posters on here are recruiters for the mega carriers with free truck driving schools. Lol

 

Our old friend manual labor with help you keep your girlish figure and keeep you in a size 3 lol, my god my air seat in my new truck is twice as wide as i am... Must be made for fat a-- truckdrivers.

 

one thing for sure, you wont be hitting the gym while you are on the road. I have worked for Knight for over a year and a half, wasnt bad, but i left them. i worked for werner too , wasnt bad, but i left them. Thing to it is, you have to get in good with the dispatcher, dont give him any headaches. but first you will find all that out because you will haev to go with a driver trainer for 6 to 8 weeks before you run solo... so really what you can do to choose is ask on here, go to a truck stop and get a truck stop book and read the ads in there and talk to some drivers in the lounge ... the ones with the big mouths in the TV room i would stay away from, its the quiet drivers and the ones in their 40's or older who will give you more sound advise .... just my 2 1/2 cents for the almost 17 yrs i have put into this thing of ours so far ...

 

I think you should try in the companies where they are offering permanent jobs rather than contractual job. Just few days back California Labor Commissioner prevails in misclassification case against port trucking company in Long Beach, California. What I think California is the one of the best suited place for truck drivers.

 

You mean that trucking companies can't classify employee drivers as "contractors" and pay them on 1099?

 

Bookey what is it you want to know that you are not getting a specific answer for? You seem to be frustrated with the answers to your thread.