Thinking strongly of taking the plunge into Frozen Food Express schooling - ????????

May Trucking has a terminal in Pensacola.

 

Yes, MCT is all owner-operators. You will drive an owner-operators truck, but you don't have to buy one.

Yes, FFE/KLLM owned by some holding company.

 

I don't know how the system is set up. Don't want to speculate. Call that number on the website.

 

I started my career with FFE and cant complain too much since every company has issues. My complaints were first of all the pay sucked. .29 cpm back then. The other thing was the Frozen Beef Loads out of Denver and north of Denver could be a real pain. I waited once for 3 days because it was for export headed to Laredo and hadnt been inspected yet. I had that happen several times to various extents of time. I switched to Transport America later on and loved it. I was making decent money about 3500$ a month and all was good. Downside was lots of Fed Ex loads that were time sensitive.

 

Pensacola, I drove a school bus for six months and I feel your pain. It was truly awful, even had a sixth grade girl tell me to F off and all she got was a week off the bus. Not even a day off from school! I had two other girls cooperate and pretend that one girl had jumped out of the window, she was hiding under the seat. Nothing happened to either one.

The kids run the show these days, like the inmates running the asylum.

 

Just my .02, MCT I believe is no longer a Owner/Operator company, They do have a few but it's become a training company, that's why they no longer advertise O/O or small fleet owners, they used to have all the names and addresses of all small fleets depending on where you live. I called a recruiter, they are in Florida and are Comcar recruiters, I went to hire on and drove to Sioux Falls from Wisconsin to find out that they more or less became a training company since the merger of Willis Shaw and the torn up equipment in there yard changed my mind and left. I talked to a company driver in Georgia that was with Willis Shaw when the merger happened, there is a short video on MCT's website, and was told by him that they pretty much changed things around with the merger. I do believe that MCT would be a good starter company but I also believe that they are no longer the good O/O company that they once were.

 

Sounds like you aren't afraid to work. You might try a food distribution type job. I did it for over two years. Worked hard during
the week but home every weekend. After awhile I knew most of the places we went to.

I enjoyed seeing the different food products we delivered, knew where most of it came from. It gave a different angle
to trucking, wasn't just hauling another load.

Many of those companies are struggling to find drivers, might start on the dock and transition into a truck. Main thing
is finding a terminal close to where you live.