Tricolor/Knight Transportation

What would make you think ( from an employer;s perspective ) that bouncing from 1099 job to 1099 job is any different than going from W2 job to W2 job? It shows job instability, the reasons it was done doesn't matter. And I can guarantee you that arguing ( in any form ) will not get you a job with any large corporate type W2 company. Good luck and keep looking and if worse comes to worse the advice that recruiter gave you was actually pretty sound, go to a mega for maybe a year and get yourself on stable ground.

 

I can use big words

 

Amen Meltom, ain't that the truth! That's why I suggested law school to him in my earlier post. I was actually serious.
This board is like an X-ray machine, lay down BS, and you're gonna get called on it - every time. Folks here have given sincere responses, and he's still fighting. His original post was about the megas, now he's all worked up about the 1099's, and he's defending them and his job hopping. It's well known that the 1099 route is littered with stories of failure. And the courts are finally starting to see through the veils of of the big lie, at the heart of independent contractors classification. About time.
But back to the original poster, It's time to take the cotton out of your ears, and stick it in your yacker.

 

Tlalokay, I had the opportunity to sit down with my recruiters and discuss hiring a new driver. The plain and simple fact is that your bouncing around from job to job, whether it be on a W2 or 1099, is sending up a gigantic red flag.

It costs my carrier about $5,000 to hire a new driver. That is a significant investment of capital, and not one that will be undertaken on a driver with a job history like yours lightly. Add in an argumentative attitude, and your chances hit the "round file" almost immediately.

I get moving from one job to another looking for a better opportunity. Heck, I'm on job number three since September of 2013! One outfit I stayed at lasted two weeks, the next carrier lasted six months, and my current carrier is ongoing (because after kicking around in this industry since 1998 I finally found my home). So it is possible to find a good place to work with a less than stellar job history. You just have to research your carriers of choice, and when you find one SELL yourself as an asset to the company. Know their policies going in, be confident you can work within those policies, and show them not how many different people you drove for bit what your experience can provide that carrier.

The interview is a sales job. They are there to sell the carrier to you, and YOU are there to sell YOURSELF to the carrier. Good luck.

 

The OP sounds like the kind of employee that most trucking companies would avoid hiring.
Reading between the lines I hear a lot of unrealistic expectattions about this business.
His job-hopping, his argumentative nature, and his general attitude would be a huge red flag to any reputable company.
What I see here is that if he stays in this line of work for ten more years he'll be one of those "I drove for all those outfits and they were all crooks, and they all screwed me, and trucking is a crappy way to make a living" kind of guys. We see it all the time here.

 

Nonsense.