Need a little advice from another perspective.

Spoke with a recruiter from a company with a hub here in phoenix for a flatbed job. he said 30 days training for 500 a week, I would have to have a passport , hazmat and out 3 weeks at a time which contradicts the 2 weeks the web site clearly states. After training it would be 34 cents pm.

I have currently drive a daycab/48' van delivering local and accross AZ state for the last 2.5 years and am doing between 1-2.5 hours of real labor loading and unloading every night with a 4 drop min. up to 9 ,( post office and what not drops also). I keep a log some weeks, some I don't depends on my route/stops ( distance of course ).

my goal is to get a year or two flatbed experience ,otr and anything else I can get overweight,oversize,hazardous would be a bonus.

here is where I ask your advice ( btw I'm 38 and have good job 10 year history, and no tickets or preventables, don't smoke , decent shape and clean person.)(( drive a truck well for my experience))

what should I expect to get starting out in flatbeds and what would you settle for if you were me . I have read many may many posts and tried to figure out what I should shoot for but after the last convo figured I would throw this out there.

thanks for your input btw

 

thats was the cpm he told me , nope - I thought it was low but who knows I have to at least ask before making a judgement it contradicts most of what I have read

I work local now so yes , even when I go across state I can make it back easily.

Well I want experience in different areas of trucking to be a supertrucker or whatever and be able to work at places I want to work and not be limited by what I have done particularly when a open job requires a type of experience ie. the good North Dakota oil field jobs and who knows what else opens up in the future.

 

Not too too worried about being home every 2-3 weeks however I need to be able to spend some time home.
I will definitely fill out a app and call them and talk to them, who do you drive for ?
and thanks for the info.

 

Hey Noggin , I can't PM you but I do need your First and Last Name for Shayla if I get hired there , for the hire referral bonus thing. maybe you can pm it to me , so far it sounds like what I am looking for , I would of course like more but who wouldnt. seems like a pretty easy fit for me to get into , thanks a lot for suggesting it.
wasnt quite 38 or 40 but they will do timed bumps and put it in writing so I was happy with the cpm they offered and will be at acceptable cpm in no time . I also like the longer loads if you dont have to go home every possible second.

 

Well , hired on with Melton , went over about 4-5 real possible companies before deciding on these guys , I will update the post as time goes by .

Some of the things things I liked about Melton were

1 pet policy , not sure if I will bring one but I like the option
2 Rider policy , I have a lot of family and I think this is a viable way to spend time with them vs. constantly having to get home to see them in their boring house with all their boring problems even though I love them to death
3 Equipment , how can you cry about Kenworths
4 governed at 65 , my current job is governed at 65 and this is good for me , probably has saved me a few tickets over the years and I'm not in a bigger hurry than that , I have passed many trucks going slower possibly governed lower than that and that would make me crazy.
5 asked me some good background stuff , I hope this means they weed out some rif raf and I can respect the company I work for , not important for everybody but it is too me.
6 said I drove the truck home on my off time , one company I talked to said no on this and that wasn't gonna work. so even though some people expect that I wasn't going to hire someplace I couldnt.

Feel free to comment on my reasons but its the little things sometimes that people want and they are the ones that have to make it work.