Its official may orientation 6/4/13

Hey thanks for sharing your thoughts & experience. I am about to do my DMV test in a week or two and am giving serious consideration to applying at May Trucking. I'm in Southern California and spoke to a May recruiter at my school. It sounds like your first month was just about like she said it would be. What kind of truck did they give you when you solo'd out and how many miles were on it when you got in it the first time? I figure you spent some time at the yard in Colton CA, Would that be a good place to call home base? Are you on dry goods side or running refer? Getting out of that Phoenix heat must have been a plus too.

 

did they change it from 2 week for dry and 3 weeks reefer to 3/dry and 4/reefer?

and yeah, big difference im sure between swift/werner and May

 

Don't believe a recruiter who tells you that you will do better financially the longer you stay out. I used to run 48 at May and as soon as I came off hometime in Brooks and got my dispatch going out east, I would put in for hometime 10 to 14 days out. That way they couldn't stick me running up and the eastern seaboard or back and forth from the midwest to the south.

 

Enjoy the new truck!

I hate to disappoint you though, dm's don't assign loads or new trucks Keep that in mind when you hit your first wall, because it will come

 

YUP YUP
your DM is just a messenger ^.^ they basically have no say at all about anything... kinda sucks for them, they get yelled at when they do something from peopel above them, and then get yelled at by us lol... i just always tell em its not personal, its just business

I got a new 2014 freightliner about 2 weeks ago or so... its nice inside but eh... its like a big prius... the turn signal shuts off automatically after a turn, the jake brake you have to like tap the gas to get it to come on for some reason, like it flips on and off every time you touch it, its soooo quiet compared to my 2007 columbia I was in, the dash just look like a cars dash, the lights in the sleeper fade on and fade off like in a car...

 

Blue is your truck automatic.

 

nope
their old trucks were automatics, then they swapped over to 10 speeds, they didnt like the autos, i had an automatic when i first joined cause I had a really old truck, but it had an apu also so I didnt complain, but now i idle this thing like no ones business... was over 110 according to the truck here in vegas, sat almost all day cause i delivered at 8am and didnt pick up next load until 5pm, truck was on most of that time i aint melting!