Need a little insight

You are going to need to learn how to sit.

3 weeks aint much. But once you are rolling and making paychecks losing even a day will hurt you. Learning to wait on shippers etc is a valuable skill. Wife and I once had three dispatchers tell us to get to Americold in Salinas ASAP hot, and ended up sitting almost 3 days. It will never happen again. Ever. Such ########.

 

Welcome to the civilian equivalent of the Military.
Inspections on everything.
Never at home.
Food can be good or bad depending on where you are.
More regulations than NASA.

And most importantly

Hurry up and WAIT.

 

I know that feeling. Luckily I knew ahead of time while I was still employed that I was going o make this switch so I gave myself about 4 months of penny pinching to make sure I had enough to get me through school and orientation. Really wanted to make the move sooner but knew that financially it just wasn't gonna happen.

 

rolling roadblocks????? good one,lol

 

From all I have read on here it seems the general consensus is to stay away from Prime and Swift.

 

Gonna be going with Schneider on a dedicated Walmart account pulling reefer. Gotta get through school which starts Tuesday and goes 4 weeks. Then orientation which is another 3 weeks then I'm on my own traveling within 200 mi. of the DC near me.

 

I like Navajo and their full size trucks. Prime is ok, but probably drive a lightweight ECO truck.