Retiring Military looking for OTR company

There's more with the apprenticeship program:
Melton Truck Lines
Jim Palmer Trucking
Contract Freighters (www.cfidrive.com)
Keim TS
Wil-Trans ~ stays in Eastern half of USA. This company also owns Jim Palmer Trucking which runs coast to coast.
You can park the truck at home or a safe place nearby.
Don't let CPM be a deciding factor; look at accessorial pays also. I was making .36 cpm but at the end of the year made $65K due to accessorial pays and lots of miles. Ran legal also.

 

Some accessorial pays are listed on the websites and some you have to ask what they are.
An example is "tarp pay" which is pay for tarping a flatbed load. Many other pays that vary by company.
Here's accessorial pay off the Contract Freighters website:
Additional Pay
Pay for common scenarios
Stop-offs: $35 per stop (not including first pickup and final stop).

Canadian border: Earn an extra $25 per loaded crossing.

Certain ZIP codes: An extra $50 for deliveries to or from certain zip codes mostly in New York City and Long Island.

Cartage and other local: For trips shorter than 100 miles, earn your mileage rate plus an extra $20 per load.

Layovers: After 48 hours, earn $75 per 24 hours of layover time.

Noncustomary work: An extra $17.50 per hour for assignments outside normal scope of work that don’t fall into other additional-pay categories.

Bonuses
Holiday bonus: Earn an extra $60 per day for working on New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, the day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve or Christmas.

Northeast bonus: Earn an extra $0.05 per mile driving in Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Virginia.

HAZMAT bonus: Earn an extra $0.03 per mile while carrying placarded HAZMAT loads.

Performance-based bonuses: Bonuses for outstanding achievements related to safe driving, mileage, productivity and more for solo, regional, team or dedicated drivers finished with training.

 

First thank you for your service. If it was me a lot of companies are basically the same with small differences.So make sure of what you want to do, home time,is there driver unloading,what part of the country do you want to run in,Ive never worked for Schneider but have heard they are one of the top hiring companies of military personnel.And cpm isn’t the most important.Flats are going to be more labor at first until you gain experience tying down and tarps.Reffer have more wait time loading and unloading typically.Make a list of what you want and see who comes closest.Good luck squid

 

On a 34 hr. restart away from home, I had a choice of $50.00 cash or a hotel room. I always took the cash and stayed in truck. I'd pick a nice parking spot at a truckstop and just relax in my apartment on wheels.
Some trucks are really nice with refrigerator/freezer, power for flatscreen TV, computer, video game equipment, auxillary power unit so you can have electrical power for everything plus air conditioning & heat; without idling the truck engine.

 

Check out Roehl as they have a Terminal in Conley. Good training company with good equipment.

 

How far is Winchester Tennessee from you

 

The companies on your list are all good for entry level. Also, your military background will be a big help. I imagine you retired at least a chief petty officer. Your supervisor and management experience will come in handy if you decide to take an administration position after a few years. Or perhaps you'll spend twenty years sailing down the highway. You're at the perfect age to start Otr. Best of luck and thanks for your service to our nation.

 

Having driven for both Schneider and McElroy I cannot recommend either but will say that McElroy was the better of the two.