Trimac- is it true

What, in your mind, is so bad about snbc that you would rather shred your cdl then drive here for a year and get that asphalt job you want so badly?

 

So basically you wanna play ball right now! but if you don't get the ball right away, you're going to quit and go home? Go ahead! See ya!

That 'mega-carrier, which you know zero about, offers some of the best training out there and will catapult you further ahead in the career,which apparently you're not even remotely serious about if you're going to quit so easily, than not driving at all.
Lose that attitude. If you are serious about this being your profession, then you do whatever it takes to achieve your goals.

If you have to drive for a Mega, to get the better job down the road, that's what you do! If you have to drive dryvan or whatever to at least get driving experience to get another company that will train you, to even look at you, then that's what's you do.

Tanker work is being patient and methodical and observant. You miss one of those and you just rolled that truck of sulfuric acid on an offramp, or when you're hooking up your hoses, open the internal and external valves and start pumping product, but you blow your line because you forgot to open the customer valve as well and now you have ferric chloride spraying from a whipping hose, or you just mixed sodium hypochlorite with hydochloric acid because the fittings where right next to each other at the unloading station, and you just created chlorine gas and potentially hurt yourself and anybody that was near you.

Truck drivers don't haul tankers. Professionals do.

 

Our closest terminal is Markham, IL... Not sure how close you are to it. In an opinion, Trimac and Superior are near the top of the heap for tanker work. I started student with SNBC with the goal of gaining experience and am now with Superior. Without experience, tanker haulers look more closely at their candidates. Typically you have to get passed one of their evaluators (drivers). If you can get a green light there you should be set. It's entirely up to you, but gaining experience thru a company like SNBC, has its merits. There a good company to boot, many stay. Bottom line though, with experience or talent, you will do better financially outside of the training barns.

Good luck driver...!

 

Here is Chinatown's list of tanking companies that hire new grads:
http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...s-hire-direct-cdl-tanker-hazmet-grads.208580/
I pretty much went by this list when I was a new CDL grad. I guess I'm waving my pom poms and putting on my Chinatown shirt, lol.

In addition to Superior, you can also check out Tidewater; they train but I guess you'd have to commute to their Chicago terminal. Superior has a food grade division, Carry Transit, if you're interested in that.

 

Actually schneider is pretty strict with their qualifications. For example, i am not qualified to work at schneider but i work at a company thats much better, pays more and im home every night.

Schneider is an excellent starter company. You obviously have no clue what you are talking about.