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Swift, Werner and Covenant should hire you, you will need to check everything out before you decide to work for them. if you dont want to drive teams dont go to covenant. there is going to be people talking trash about every company, but you need to take that with a grain of salt. everyone will have their own experiances, yours might be good or it might be bad. find the company/companies that will hire you and figure out who you want to try out. also check the medical and dental plans, if you dont you could get caught up in a plan that is taking 75% of your take home pay. covenants benifits cost about $600 a week for medical and dental for the wife, kid, and myself. hope that helps you out.

 

Well; you already have a CDL. That should help some. Depending on how long ago you went to school you might need a refresher. A lot of co's run up N/E so you are at least in a freight lane. I would check around and see what trucks are up there and start contacting those co's and then check them out. On here as well as talking to some of their drivers.

 

Pick between Swift, Werner, Schiender, etc.

 

Trans Am uses only automatic transmissions and some say stay away from that until you can learn to shift standard well.

 

That better be a typo. 30K a year for health coverage??

 

Welcome to the board.

First let me state, driving a truck is FAAAAR more than just being behind the wheel getting the truck down the road. There's lot's of other work involved including but not limited to. All of us experianced driver's could write all you new guy's many book's on hand to go along with the FMSCR manual, and Haz-Mat manual not to including all the book's, paper's and manual's the company you go to work for will give you and then stack that up with the CDL course manual(s) if you don't have your CDL.

Then you move onto contract's, 3 day's worth of filling out paper work trying to get hired as the first app. you send online is only a prehire but does not guarantee you the job even after you have made that long ### bus ride to where ever you may go.

Then you have the job duties including but also not limited to maintaining a DOT logbook which play's by a lot of federal rules, driving the truck, inspecting the truck for any damage or anything that would make it illegal or unsafe to operate on a daily basis, time management, load and trip planning, proper loading and unloading of your truck by whom ever else does the work, money management as the pay has gone to hell for the average truck driver and truck stop's will eat your money like a child with candy even just for food alone. It's good to be mechanically inclined if you break down in the middle of no where so you might be able to trouble shoot and possibly fix the problem if it can be so you don't have to sit and waste added time for a tow truck. In the truck beside's all the paperwork you will have to deal with is normal everyday household chores which a lot of driver's are to lazy and have some of the most trashed out truck's I've ever seen. That depend's on how clean of a person you are like me, I'm OCD when it come's to being clean. I don't like anything being out of place where I can't find it or dirty if DOT ever stopped me and asked to look inside.

Scaling (weighing) sliding tandem's (or chaining, straping and tarping if your flat bed), drop and hook empty and loaded trailer's making sure all your info is correct and you have a copy to be paid for the miles you ran on it but making sure the other driver get's those bill of lading to get the load where it need's to go. Finding place's, watching for low over hang's, wire's, bridges, RR crossing hump to steep causing you to center out and end up stuck and more than likely getting hit by a train, washing out contamianted trailer's, writting check's and dealing with company money on top of your own, keeping track of mile's rolled vs miles paid so you do get screwed.

On the qalcom with dispatch. On the phone with dispatch, customer's, load planner's, safety, OS&D (overage, shortage or damaged) doing case count, what was O/S, what was damaged, finding product number's for those case's, getting claim number's and being put on hold while the log book is running and time is running out for you to make it to your pick up on time. Etc, etc etc.

This is just some of all that has to be done. I haven't even gotten started on the ungrateful ### people driving these car's who don't have any respect for truck driver's that will put you in some crazy and dangerous situations weather you avoid them or not, and some of it will piss you off to some level of degree at least once a day if not more.

With just this said, do you feel you can handle it? As for that conviction, I hate to say and I'm not trying to burst your bubble but it's gonna be difficult getting a job with that no matter how old it is. That's a big deal to a company unlike a simple parking ticket or DUI/DWI.

 

1990??? #### i take it your like 40..........but anyways try covenant you might not like it but get your year in...if i was you i would try to get that removed off my record