Start at McElroy on Monday!

I bet you guys are getting tired of me asking all the questions

 

well I will find out next week I have to be there Monday at the hotel Sunday far as the labor part of the job believe it or not I'm looking forward to that and for the road test as long as they don't mind grinding gears esp downshifting I don't see how I would fail that I'm what you call a worry wart I worry about every little thing it sucks believe me

 

Retention in this business is unreal....I heard Werner ran over 10k drivers throughout there company as a whole last year alone. A friend of mine that works for Covenant in Chattanooga said they have over 6k a year. I heard large carriers is often above 96%, and a rate of 75-80% or more at smaller carriers isn’t uncommon. Sad too, this is a much needed profession, but the problem as I see it is that most of your large carriers care little about their drivers and have a "I can replace them" attitude. No wonder drivers have a poor mentality of bigger companies. Cheap freight has hurt the industry which hurts the economy and a vortex begins which hits the driver for lower wages in the end...... However it is a catch 22 and drivers as a whole are really the ones responsible for that because we do agree to drive for what they offer to pay......

JUST MY .02
tAc12

 

I also heard that get money from the government to hire students too so some will hire a student just tog et the money from the government keep them around a month and let them go and start it over again that is the bigger mega carriers I seriously doubt McElroy is like that tho

 

Anxiety my friend. Relax your gonna be fine just do what you did in school and your gonna be fine. As long as you keep the right attitude you will make it. You will find out that the instructors at orientation are real people. They have already been where you are going. So they understand.

 

I have an acquaintance of mine that I met during CDL that went to McElroy. I have also spoke to them on several occasion and everything I have heard about them has been TOP NOTCH....If flatbed is what your l@@king for then I hear they are the company to go to...A few others as well but nonetheless a good one....

 

Keep up on posting when you can Silverdrifter, and don't worry about the turn over rate.
Most of those numbers are really from people that just think trucking is something else than what it really is and the camping in a truck all year isn't for everyone.

 

I was just gonna report on how things are going. In my 2nd week with my trainer, and I'm really enjoying my time so far. Trainer says I'm doing really good and glad to see I use my map book a lot instead of the GPS. Only thing I'm struggling some with is strapping and tar ping a load, but I'm getting better at it. I did experience a bathroom emergency and why you should have emergency supplies. I woke up dead out of sleep, my stomach was hollering. Man I jetted out the truck and went looking for a bathroom. I love seeing those pretty peterbilt hauling them bull wagons blowing our doors off. Quite the sight to see that engine screaming as I drive my slow prostar. Only thing that sucks is as soon as I get my own truck I'll have to turn if in in a month to go of my 3 week military crap I gotta do every year.

 

MTL doesn't stand for McElroy truck lines, it's "Must Tarps loads" and yes all of them