Nervous to get back into trucks.

Sign up with a company that uses automatics or gives drivers a choice of automatic or stick shift.
Don't worry about the traffic; you'll adjust and be ok.

 

Pride Transport is probably a good place to get started.
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You can communicate with him on the open forum or private message; your choice.
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I’m more, “nervous“ driving around in a four wheeler on my days off than I am this giant truck now. Yes, we do indeed have to be much more aware of our surroundings, plan things out a bit and so forth but it really does become second nature to how we drive overtime. I feel out of place Driving a regular vehicle now. Lol

 

I’m going to have to disagree on Pride as a starter company. (Unless they changed their policies in a big way).

I was going to go with them a couple of years ago, and backed out due to their policy of requiring new drivers that came to them already having a CDL, to team with another driver for an extended time. I recall it was a couple of months, give or take. During that time, the pay is low, and worse, if anything happens and you must leave, you contractually owe them for “training”, even though you are already teaming for them, earning them extra due to it, plus had your own CDL.

If that policy is still out there, run, don’t walk away from them.

 

Same here.

 

He has zero experience. He'll need some time on the road with an experienced driver.
There's several choices for him though.
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Kold Trans will hire him. The company is owned by Knight, but much smaller.
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Agree, but I feel there are safer options for new drivers that have a fresh CDL. If Pride changed their policy, then it may be a good option. I’ve talked to experienced drivers that are happy there, and from my own research it’s a good company. Just not for starting out (again, unless they did away with that policy).

 

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