Looking to get into flatbedding and then learn heavy haul

Apply with Paul Transportation even if you don't think they'll hire you. I know for a fact they hired a new cdl grad in Texas.

 

Honestly, It's hard to find a decent outfit with less than two years experience, if you want to stage yourself for heavy haul, unfortunately I would actually recommend Roehl or Melton. It's not going to be rainbows and Unicorns, but it will give you the experience to get a better company when you do have 2 years experience.

They're likely to get you home a decent amount of time. After that year, pick a company that has RGNs, it doesn't really matter if they regularly haul os/ow loads as long as it's verifiable for the companies that do. Then start looking at who will take you from there.

It helps to look at trucking like a union model: for the first two years, you're like an apprentice, no one really trusts your ability; after two years, you're like a journeyman, okay they can trust you,but not for serious, important, and dangerous stuff that has the potential to make a lot of money; after 5 years, with a clean record and experience in whatever field you want to go to, you're pretty much considered golden, "in the club" as it were.

Also, in my experience, having friends that do whatever it is you want to do can help a lot, and get you in the door at some places.

 

You’re gonna want a western company if you’re interested in getting home... most flatbed companies that have been suggested don’t have consistent western state freight... some that do are...

RAM Trucking out of Oregon
White Mountain Trucking out of Phoenix
Smokey Point Distributing out of Washington

 

Apologies if I'm breaking the local board etiquette here by adding to this thread rather than starting my own, but the topic is exactly what I'm looking for.

I'm about to get my CDL (well, hopefully, anyway. ) and I'm looking into flatbed as an industry segment of interest to me. Chinatown, you've been suggested as source by others, do you know of any flatbed companies for people based out of Albuquerque that will hire brand new drivers?

(And someone, do please let me know if I should have started a new thread to ask this question.)

 

Y'all need to stop living in areas have terrible flatbed freight lol

 

Well, that's certainly a possibility.

Like I said in that other thread, I'm so new to this I don't even know what I don't know, yet.

 

Dont get discouraged if you get a lot of no's and have to work for a few turds first to get in with an honest operation. You gotta pay your dues.