Start at McElroy on Monday!

I don't know anything about Averitt's flatbed division. Seen a couple of their flatbeds out on the road though. Their starting cpm isn't bad at all for dry van actually compared to other dry van companies. The question seems to be the amount of miles. At least it was for me.

Im not averaging taking home $700/week. Never actually did an average on take home. I do know I've had only two weeks in which my take home was less than $630.00.

 

I'm glad the thread has been a decent resource for you. And let me thank you so much for your service, & also congratulate you on your upcoming retirement! Godspeed to ya!

 

Things are going well! Things stayed just fine at MTL. However, I recently made a change & have moved on to Tidewater Transit, a tanker company. Pulling tankers is ultimately where I wanted to be. TWT has given me an opportunity to get there sooner than I'd hoped. I have nothing at all remotely bad to say about MTL. They provided good training & followed thru with everything they'd ever promised. They were very professional in handling my notice & my last couple of weeks with them. Very appreciative of my time & the folks at MTL.

I'll be based out of TWT's Decatur, AL terminal, so my bride & I will moving to that area in the near future.

 

I appreciate that! So far, through orientation & a couple of days of training, I'm really liking it. While getting it all set up I had a couple of opportunities to sit down & have face-to-face conversations with my terminal manager. He was very gracious with his time, answered all my questions, & always encouraged me to come up with more questions. Looking forward to finishing up training & getting out on the road!

 

Well, orientation is only two days. Training is typically a week (unless a driver is straight out of school), depending on how quickly one picks up on things. My terminal manager told me that even if the trainer says I'm good to go after a week, but if I don't feel comfortable/confident, just speak up & they'll keep me in training a few more days. As far as going out with anyone, I've been out with a city driver/day cab guy for two days already. Probably go out a couple more times before this next week is over. If all goes well this week, Thursday or Friday I'll head back to Decatur, AL to get assigned my truck. I'm training at the Kingsport, TN terminal. As to how long I'll be out, it really just depends. I'm told they prefer their drivers not to be out more than ten days. Some are home on weekends, & some even make it home a night or two durin the week. Just depends on how the loads are going.