Wanting in the industry

You just need to find something tolerable for 365 days. Then you're gonna have 100x more options. They are immensely better than something like Swift , they have a fairly small corporate office and that could work in your favor.

 

The worst part is living with another guy who is your 'trainer.' After that, the alone time you get with this job is pretty nice. After 6 months you can hop to a regional job, and after 6 more months you can get a nice local job. once you hit 2 years, opportunities will throw themselves at you. I just got a job hauling gasoline, not bad for coming from a background of no opportunity and no hope.

 

Also, what part of the country are you in? If you are in a state that relies on agriculture, you can get a local job pretty easily once the harvest season starts up again. That's what I did, out in California. Started hauling grapes, got on with the union, never looked back, I've never spent a single day over the road. The local jobs are there (look at intermodal or port work); it's a lie they like to push on you , that you have to go OTR to get experience. That's just a fabrication , so don't limit yourself to these large bottom feeder companies.

 

Do they make you team for the first several months/40k miles like Prime does, or is it a brief period of 2-4 weeks with a trainer?

 

I like what Henderson has to offer, but hearing about this push towards teaming (if there is one) puts me off somewhat. I get that there will be an element of teaming while with a trainer and to be honest I wouldn't mind it at all if the trainer wasn't always sat next to me.

Once I am deemed good enough to be out on my own then that's exactly where I would want to be.