HELP!! Anyone who knows this business!

Wow that is horrible, I hate hearing about drivers getting hosed like that. There is plenty of freight out there, especially with you being on the east coast. I live in Phx and my company keeps me midwest and east for that reason. You shouldn't have any trouble getting on with a decent company that will up your miles and pay.

 

Have you been looking for another company?I with with some work while you're sitting you could find many companies but stay away from the starters it'll be dajuvue all over again.

 

Abilene Motor Express in Richmond,VA is a decent company and also has fast trucks @72 mph. A couple of their female drivers post on here sometimes and really like the company.

K&B Transportation has a guaranteed minimum weekly paycheck of $1125.00 so if you're in the hiring area check them. Require 6 mos experience, so you're good there.

Freymiller is one of the best refrigerated carriers out there with top notch equipment.

Magnum Ltd. already mentioned.

Tyson Foods drivers post good paychecks.

 

OP, are you on Indeed.com? Fill up a resume form there. Make it public. I get phone calls almost daily from recruiters from all over the country. Good luck!

 

Try to find small to medium size carriers.Some may work on a case to case basis.You're close to that one yr mark they may consider that.

 

There is or was a cider house called White House near Martinsburg I believe. They would be tanker country or otherwise reefer/van with cider by the jug. There is a little bit of careful lumping that will need doing with those things.

Busch in Williamsburg might have something in the beer side.

Norfolk is the military and container base, Im pretty sure you can find something.

Regarding living on a budget.. it's about eating a little bit twice a day but not a whole lot and maintaining your fluids more than anything. I think we did 20 bucks a day at most. which isnt very much against retail but if you had the ability to get bulk out of a store and maintain it it will be cheaper. That was how we did ours.

 

Fill out the online job applications with the companies I listed and you'll probably have 5 job offers in a few hours or less. Many time you get a phone call and a job offer before you finish the applications, so it's a good idea to put them in the priority you like best and submit them in that order. This way you don't have to be hesitant when you get that first job offer.

 

I'd like to take a moment to address this issue. You are getting plenty of other information on the topic you requested, so I'm going to go off topic, but reply to this.
Yes there are brutal responses on here. There are some real jerks on here. There are some people on here, (the vast majority,) who honestly want to help a person out, if they can. But we are all human, and sometimes a lot of us will either post with an angry response, or the old "posting while drunk" bit. And we get a few trolls. They usually show up on a Friday night or a Saturday, make a few asinine posts and either get locked off, or give up and go back to their coloring crayons. (Eating them, not coloring with them.)
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