Recent Grad question

$20 an hour is more than most jobs with a big rig pay. Take the job now! Benefits or no benefits $20 is more then training companies pay their CDL drivers.

Keep your CDL. You can apply to other companies and jobs later. Some will say you have no experience in driving. That is BS. Most, not all, of those companies aren't worth driving for in the first place an pay far less than the $20 an hour you are offered now.

A lot of truck driving is the same set of skills. Driving a hotshot, flat bed, van, tank, dump truck, or what ever will have a lot of the same skills in common. This experience thing is just an excuse for office folk that don't know the job in the first place, to discriminate and differentiate between drivers. All but the brain dead can pick up one segment of trucking and learn the others within a short time.

 

There is always a way up in the scale.
It's your call if you get the offers.

 

Take the job keep your life

 

You don't like the job or it does not work out for you, you can always apply to one of the training companies. Most of them will accept you within a year or two of your training.

Way to many of us get caught up in the particulars of a job, like what kind of truck you drive, what brand of truck a company has, how big is the company, who the company hauls for, ect. All that stuff does not mean anything compared to the paycheck and your family. Far to many loose sight of that.

If this guy is paying $20 + benefits, that is straight money, not commission, percentage, CPM, take it now, stay out of trouble, no tickets or accidents, and you will find another trucking job later if need be.

 

It may not be an outright lie....but the industry revolves around the freight....so be prepared to be flexible.