Looking to get into trucking field

Oops... My bad. That is a good company. Rumors that they are owned by Prime.

Right now, Chinatown's mind is churning. Will soon post highly detailed suggestions for you. Get ready...(sometimes I think dat boy is a bot)

 

Ohio puts you in the area for many choices, including Wil-Trans.
Jim Palmer Trucking - coast to coast refrigerated trucking.This company is owned by Wil-Trans. Wil-Trans runs only eastern states.
Contract Freighters - www.cfidrive.com - coast to coast dry van.
Roehl Transport - flatbed/dry van/refrigerated. Personally, I like their "Dry Van National Fleet", because they run coast to coast.
Millis Transfer - need $500.00 up front for fees. Dry van & runs easstern half of USA. School in Trenton,OH
FFE (Frozen Food Express) - coast to coast refrigerated trucking.

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There's more choices, but you can probably find what you want off this list. Meals & lodging are provided, plus transportation to get to the school is provided.

 

Wil-Trans and Jim Palmer had/have a contract to haul Prime freight. I read somewhere recently, they're ending the contract, but that may or may not be true. Super nice trucks too.

 

I have never haule dry van only reefer. That being said i would go reefer. People always have to eat.

 

Wil-Trans is a very good choice. Chinatown gave some others also.
If you want to talk to someone at Prime who knows what she's talking about. When you get to the list of Recruiters... go to Nikki Yost. She's really good. Some others... I fear they're just panicking to get the workload off themselves....
Yet... you're doing good with Will-Trans...... I've heard they run east...while Jim Palmer runs west.... mostly....It's just gossip....

 

That's just personal choice. I did reefers most of my career and liked it real well. There's a lot less stress with dry van, but I liked the hard running coast to coast pulling reefers. Elogs will slow that down though. No more, "Which log book do I show the DOT officer when he walks up to the truck."

 

Swift is rotton, but even on a bad week, you should do $500. They are easy to get hired on. I came back to trucking after well over a decade off the road. I did 6 months with Swift and moved up to a great company. I knew what I was doing. It was part of my plan to do the 6 months and move up. I knew, from previous experience how to play the game. Megacarriers are pretty much the same.

The key is to learn, keep your nose clean, no tickets or preventable. NONE! Then you will have lots of options available.