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Don Hummer Trucking
Abilene Motor Express
Magnum Ltd. - this company might work for you; they're based in Fargo.
Martin Bros. Distributing in Minneapolis
May Trucking Company
Jim Palmer Trucking - slipped my mind on this one @akfisher until I saw your thanks.

All the above hire new cdl grads.

 

Hello welcome to trucking. With that said, congrats on your CDL etc. The next problem is getting and keeping a job when you are new. I run into this myself even back in the 80's when I first got my CDL. I won't bore you with the stories.

In keeping with your request for companies, Look for those who run the kind of freight you want to pull. Such as flatbedding, tanker etc. You might even talk to local ready mix companys in your area to haul stone, cement or even a lowboy. That CDL qualifies you to run a Mixer too. Don't turn your nose up on the little ones. Heck when I was not running a mixer after I moved to Arkansas learning the road and area, they let me push rock and sand with a loaded feeding a ready mix. THAT was FUN, excepting some very serious and careful attention to everything and around you.

If you are intent to run cross country, save up 1200 dollars first. That way you don't go begging a comcheck (DO they still have those?) and create a debt against your pay that might not ever be caught up. Then look at the local truckstop for materials on companies, use the net to look up DOT numbers to see if they are accident prone and view recent reports. Talk to the safety depts of the companies you are looking at. Get to know some of the people around you. Yes you are new with that CDL and ready to go, but avoid being taken advantage of and burned up as a 90 day has been wonder tired and stranded 2000 miles from home after you told Dispatch where to stick that 200 mile haul for the 90th time.

I hate to say it, some of the better companies PAY you the moment your 5th wheel hooks onto the load you are given. Ask about that. Klink on your 5th wheel and then beep your satellite with your pay, deductions and so on. THAT eases much of your troubles.

I do not have any particular company I would like to suggest, half are out of business because we were running really hard logs etc be ###### way before 1994 using a 6 pack of beer to ease the pain of the bad concrete roads and no air ride.

I do encourage you to examine larger companies. And examine those who do a specific mission such as McKesson. You will find that they haul medicines up to a million or more in value and always back to the dock, stay in the cab until unloaded in a secure facility and then cardboard back to memphis most of the time. Once we hauled medicines across the GWB 9-12 in the evening because Connecticut needed them really badly after much of what they had was being consumed in the 9-11 attacks that day. Being a part of something to serve the Nation in a small way is a reward that cannot be measured in money, ###### or bling etc.

I hate to be so blunt. I remember my early struggles, and even discrimination due to my deafness and generally I was not supposed to have gotten away with a 30+ year time with my hearing aids and glasses against certain fleet managers who wanted to be sure I was gone. All I had to do was either quit or screw up.

I was so disposible in those days. Quit and 50 more drivers like yourself (No offense please) is filling that orientation trailer eyeing that tractor Im cleaning out to take out on the road.

As long this supply/demand problem exists young drivers are disposable.

You will have Daddies, You will have Teachers. You will. Learn what you can quickly and keep at it. At some point you will be a value to whatever company that hired you. But that takes time. Time sometimes you feel is too #### long. Consider that you have the rest of your life.. what? 50 years ahead of you? or 50 minutes until you run off your first bridge because you screwed up?

Hang in there. Do not let them push you around, ######## or lie to you. IF they will not answer questions, find another company.

 

Congratulations driver !

There's always something good out there. You just have to be patient and find it.

Good luck

 

henderson
crete
transport america
nussbaum
good luck and congrats

 

Did you take a trucking course? Or did you just test out for your class A? What endorsements do you have?

 

great

 

Knife river does require exp.Its not the companies that won't hire you but their insurance is denying you.I would suggest going with a starter company get your exp then move on to better companies.Welcome to the forum by the way.

 

Thanks

 

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