New to trucking. How will CRST get me home to Northern Calif?

I have no experience and a fresh Class A with all the endorsements. I am considering CRST or Swift. CRST looks like a tighter ship for taking on people with no experience, but Swift is closer to where I live east of Sacramento with their terminal in Lathrop. I've talked to a CRST recruiter who says they can get me home because I can take a truck home, but there is no place around where I live to park one. They seemed kind of vague about other places to the south like Stockton and Modesto for places to park a truck. But if I had a car, I still would need a reliable commute between where I live and where ever the trucks are and a reliable place to park. I don't have a car yet and so until then I need access to a bus at least.

Are there any CRST drivers out there in Nothern California? How do you cope with the lack of terminals up here?

 

I've been looking on Craig's List, that's where I found Swift and CRST. I don't see anyone else taking on inexperienced drivers at all on Craig's List. I took a clue from the image you posted for Con-Way and had a look to see if they had something in Northern California and they didn't as near as I could see. Whatever else you can say about CRST and Swift, they are ready to take you on where ever you are at.

Maybe you could suggest somebody in Sacramento. We do have a lot of freight moving around up here. They used to train new drivers to haul tomatos around here, but they don't do that any more. In West Sacramento I see a lot of trucking going on, but if they are looking for drivers with no experience, I'm not seeing it. I'm ready to do more homework, but I don't see any clues to hunt down further.

And I'd still like to hear from Northern California CRST drivers or anyone who knows about what a Northern California CRST driver can expect for getting home.

 

Does CRST own the yard? Could I park a car there? I did a quick search for "drop yard" and "Stockton" and came up with an address about 5 miles south of Lodi. Is that the place? That's a lot closer than Lathrop. And Lodi has an Amtrak station.