New CDL GRAD

Try to start out with a company with a terminal or their main office out of Texas, which you posted as being your location. This way, you might have a better chance with home time.

Right now, you may want to concentrate on getting all the driving experience that you can get for the next 6 months to 1 or 2 years, to be able to apply at other companies if you choose to do so.
34 cents per mile for a beginner starting out is O.K., not great, but still O.K..
After you get more experience under your belt, then the better paying jobs should be opening up to you.

Good luck to you! God bless you and your family!

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

Congrats, Kwan~!!!

He has his HazMat also. Any tanker companies out his way?!?!?

 

Wouldn't be my 1st choice. . . . they are quite "intolerant" of "small errors" that many new drivers come across in the 1st year.
Keep looking; apply like crazy.

Look into tanks, since you DO have your HazMat. Everybody "says" its a learning curve, but then again, you have nothing TO unlearn....ie: no bad habits yet.

What say you, @slim shady ???

 

Get a good year or so under your belt....no tickets or bump ups and you should have many choices..
A buddy of mine pulls tanks for Foodliner....Makes good money and likes it.
They have terminals in TX and all over...About all new equipment too..

If you get into tanker you will be glad you did! I would never want to go back to a van or flatbed after driving those for over 30 years.

 

I drive for ffe in NJ just got raises start out at .38 after 1 year goes to .40 then 2 to .42. 30 dollars a stop 20 detention. More raises coming in few months I'm local now making 24 n hour after 3 goes to 25. Not bad a lot of people complain bout them but every company has a problem it's how u make of it n ffe got me a lot of stuff to be proud of..kllm sucks most of them guys come to ffe. My terminal does ltl thts where u make money not linehaul do not lease with ffe tho u will sit company side is better n there getting better

 

There is tons of tanker in Texas. All kinds of tanker. Where in Tx.?
Yes, looking into Schneider. They have gotten very anal and micromanaging. Not good. Management needs to change.

 

His post is old; he's working, I think pulling a bottom dump locally.

 

Dummy me needs to pay attention to dates. Yup.... tanker is so bountiful in Texas it isn't even funny.