trucking companies and APU's and Inverters

You also have 4 years experience.

Does Pride also take new drivers?

Those kind of places usually require some experience to get that nice equipment.
And they should, since new drivers tend to tear up trucks in more ways than three.


Swift is a very good place to start - usually.
A bad DM or terminal rules can make it hard, but for the most part Swift is a decent company to work for.
If it were not so, I could easily find work somewhere else.

 

Pride does have a training program, I can't say what the prerequisites are though. They would have to call the company and ask that question.

 

Earl L. Henderson Trucking has CDL school and Tripac APU's.

 

Henderson only has APU's on the KWs. There might still be a few older Freightliners in the fleet that still have them. The APUs were apparently costing them too much money in maintenance and none of the newer (ordered after October 2013?) trucks have them.

 

Averitt has apus and 1500 watt inverters

 

APU's are expensive, if they put an APU in the truck it affects their bottom-line, also an APU is heavy and if they install an APU its weight they can't haul<br><br>if they install TV's, inverters that also affects their bottom-line,

somebody has to pay for APU's and TV's and other "luxuries" the company isn't going to take money out of their pockets to give you these items they'll pass it on the customers, and the customers will go somewhere else, why should they have to worry about their drivers?

also, if they put TV's in their trucks they'll be worried you're too busy watching TV instead of sleeping, or working

to put it simple, its for 2 reasons 1) it costs money 2) its not their business, they don't care

 

Trucking companies don't pass the cost of amenities along to the customers. APU's, TV's, XM radio are provided by some companies as a way to slow attrition of drivers. The trucking company eats the cost, not the customers.

 

trucks with apu's also get a weight exemption for having them so it doesn't affect what you can haul either

companies are adding these "luxuries" to their trucks to have driver retention

 

NOT in California

and how's Prime's retention? they have APU's on their trucks

i'm sure there are other companies who put all these fancy luxuries in their trucks and still have high turnover

 

We have APUs and inverters. The cost is offset by less wear and tear on the engine, less engine hours, and less fuel used making better MPGs. An APU can pay for itself within a year when fuel prices are $3-4 a gallon, as they have been the last few years. Personally, I would not run for a company without them, considering I'm warm in the winter, cool in the summer, do not get ticketed for idling, and have the luxuries of a fridge and microwave and single burner.