Help me out? I don't know what would be the safest way to start my trucking career.

Have an EX PRIME driver ( in fact 2 of them ) and 1 did his CDL training there and has shown me his pay statements to prove the $ paid for training periods and he was paid more than $0.10 / Mile and NO he was not pushed to lease a truck 5 minutes after getting his CDL or in the 2 years he drove on the company side