more of a statement than a question.

Doubtful.... Very doubtful

 

Not only that they are also on foodstamps and welfare, so yeah...quite a score for them

 

not a trucking job but last year i needed some money so i applied to fedex ground to unload trailers i applied almost 3 months before i was out of school for summer just so i could get the ball rolling and could start the next day i finished school. well i told the recruiter and put it down in my application cant start till i finish school. i get called for interview and discussed my situation and she said "oh yea of course no problem". did interview and next day get called for orientation. i tell them we talked about it already i cant start till i finish school and again "this is only orientation and we will setup the start date". at orientation before we left they told us see you all tonight at 3:30am. i was mad but i tried it after a month i had to quit no way am i going to school full time and had another job doing 30 hrs i had only 2-5 hours sleep on a good night. moral of story never trust recruiters glad i learned my lesson.

 

My last recruiter told me that I would only travel the 11 western states. "We don't do the east coast or anything like that" was EXACTLY what she said to me over the phone. I was like, "Cool! I'll never be too far from home."

My first load was to Pennsylvania, and the second was to New Jersey. I just wish I had recorded that conversation because my trainer manager didn't believe me when I told him.

 

When I first started years ago, I was in an orientation class much like some of you newbies would have been in. Ok, I was in a classroom with guys from all over the states, east coast, west coast, mid-west. Tell you what too, when we were assigned our trainers, the east coast guys went west, the west coast guys went east, the mid-west people, God only knows, we never saw'em again, they may still be out there, after all these years, poor saps. I think that the companies do this, to get you away from your home base area, to see if you can handle the long time away from home. Then too, if you bail out, it's a LONG and expensive bus ride or train back home. Maybe they think they are teaching us a lesson? But, and only from what I was a witness to, it seems normal to get the people to a different part of the country for training. Not too many big mountains in the east, not too many Philly cheese steak sandwiches in the west!

 

What was your training pay? How many weeks did they keep you on it? Which mega were you with? Report take home numbers only.

 

I don't see the pickle you're in. $30 an hour for 60 hours is $1800 a week. That's not something you just do for a year. That's a really good deal that you can make $85,000-$90,000 a year at.

 

Take the job. You're not going to do much better than that.

And no, your tractor trailer experience won't be washed away. Most small shops only care about whether or not you had a CDL within a certain amount of time, and will view local driving as experience.

 

why deal with a recruiter? walk in the front door of company X and introduce yourself and ask for an application,fill it out right there on the spot,hand it in and tell the receptionist or whomever THANK YOU.

the new breed is hung up on online apps and the like,(thereby forcing the recruiter to have to deal with yet one more out of the hundreds of e-apps as opposed to in person)which in my opinion(mine is all that matters as i type this) is extremely lazy and less than personal and suggests to me that their job search in less than sincere. so what if you have to drive an hour or more to apply,in person,to a particular company? doing so will make an impression and just may get you hired on the spot.