New to driving, looking for good flatbed co.

www.sennfreightlines.com
2699 Hwy 121 & 34
Newberry, SC
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I think Senn uses stick shifts. Call and ask.

 

Thompson Trucking hires new grads from South Carolina.
Thompson, Inc.

 

Halvor Lines, Official Site | We Go The Extra Mile | Apply Now

 

Gypsum Express
Trucking Terminal - Georgetown South Carolina

 

Flatbed Trucking And Transportation - Swift Transportation

 

Premiere OTR Flatbed Trucking Company - Melton Truck Lines

 

Boyd Bros. Transportation - Boyd Bros. Transportation (drive4boyd.com)

 

TMC has a terminal close by me and the recruiter came when I was in CDL school. He was well informed, answered every question, and showed me driver paystubs when I challenged him on it. One of their trainers used to be one of my instructors and I hear good things.

Their trucks are nice and they give top notch training, BUT videos on YouTube says that the pay sucks. Who knows. What I personally saw was $1500-2000 a week, but I’m sure that he cherry picked which stubs to show me.

 

My best recommendation is to do enough research until you settle on which company to work for BEFORE you decide about going to CDL school. CDL school IS JUST ABOUT PASSING THE STATE TEST. You will learn the other 95% of this job from your first employer and their trainer. You will NOT have time during 3 weeks of CDL school to sort through the trucking companies or verify anything the company recruiter tells you. In fact, the answer to every question you as a recruiter will be "yes" or "I'll have to find out and call you back." It doesn't matter what the question is. A recruiter is a "car salesman" the answer to every question is you need to buy a car.

Make any company you are considering working for put you in contact with current working drivers working in the division of the company that you want to work for. Retired drivers form the company or drivers from a different division cannot tell you the answers you need to know about the division you are working for. 80-90% of new CDL drivers leave the industry before they work 1 year. Most of this is newbies do no or little research. Matching a company and a driver are like picking shoes. Nobody can pick shoes for you. Expensive shoes that are the wrong size will not be good. Cheap shoes that fit you are better than other shoes that don't fit you. You need to decide how often you need to be home/off-work, the minimum time you need to be home/off-work, how long you can stay away, what pay and benefits you need, what region you can or will drive in, and many other things. And the hardest part is deciding between 4 or 5 of the things you like plus one thing you REALL don't like or do you work somewhere that has 3-4 of the things that you tolerate and nothing you REALLY cannot tolerate at all. You have to decide on the fit of the trucking company and you.

Complainers always remember to complain. Not every satisfied employee spends as much time telling people about the employer they like. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE WORK FOR CR ENGLAND, even if ANYTHING.