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Don't rule out Werner,my son is w/ them since 1/3/11 and has no complaints. His 2 trainers were both veterans w/ many years under their belts and they taught him a lot.It looks like,after he gets his first truck, they are putting him and a team mate on a Harley Davidson dedicated account, he will find out next week.

 

You want a bone here it is. I lived in Las Vegas and had to find a job driving too. But instead of calling and using the computer I went out and spoke to the people face to face. Vegas is a hard place to find a driving job in the first place because of the location. The town sits in the middle of the transportation system and very few companies have a hub there. So you can look on the computer or even the newspaper and you'll be lucky to find a decent job.

I went there with 10 years experience and ended up at a low ball LTL company pulling triples. But that job allowed me to know the area and where to find the better jobs. Which I did. A few years back you could find work easier than today. You could pull 2 40' belly dumps and make good money. But the construction has fallen off.

What you need to do is get out and find as many companies as you can in town and talk to them. For every 1 company you see an ad for there's 10 more without ads. The town is laid out so you know where the companies would be. The gasoline haulers are out by Nellis AFB, the freight haulers are off Losee rd or out off US95 or I515 in Henderson. There's other areas that have warehouses and they are easy to spot also. What I mean is it's not like Los Angeles where companies are everywhere. The industry is new in town compared with other towns.

There's one item that you got going for you and that's your clean record. Your degrees do not have a big play in driving like they would if you went for management. They may even think you're over qualified and you may move on if you find something in your field. Companies want experience and nowadays they can be very picky. That's why I believe you should show up in person to sell yourself so they know what they would be getting. If they tell you to apply on-line that's fine because they have a face to put to the paper. I would never hire anyone over a phone call or an e-mail. We always figured if you can't come out and see us then you don't want the job bad enough.

A couple of gasoline haulers that might give you a shot are Fredericksen Tank Lines and Rebel Oil. I know they have hired new drivers in the past. But if I were you I'd get in my car and drive around town and find companies you may want to work for. And shoot for the best and work down. You've got to be creative and get away from what everybody else is doing. You never know. Good luck.

 

Don't let the experience requirement get you down. Sometimes they can by-pass that if they need a driver. Keep looking because you're getting a good idea on the market. Not only does the company check you out, you check the company out too. When you see a yard that's dirty and trash everywhere you can expect a company that doesn't run their operation up to par.

Don't waste your time at the truck stops because those drivers are just passing through. However, you might want to go out there and buy the regulatory books like the FMCSR pocketbook and others that cover hazmat and overloads. I also recommend taking the Hazmat courses at CCSN especially the transportation class.

I recommend searching out a company that hauls it's own product. There in Vegas the bigger companies are dirt, gasoline, and sheet rock haulers. Sheet rock is hard to find because there processing plant is most likely near their rock quarry. Same with dirt. I know there's a few trucks that come down Lake Mead BLVD out of Sunrise mtn so you'd have to go out of town a couple of miles. Some other rock plants are located way out in Overton. Sometimes you just need to follow the trucks to see where they load. Keep records and score points.

I made a list of what I expected out of a company and would grade them after I checked them out. Las Vegas Flyash was a company that paid $80 for 16 hours of my time. Plus the big clue I saw was their trucks parked on the side of the road way out in the desert where the driver was getting a couple of minutes sleep. Later I found out that company would force their drivers to run illegal hoping they'd get ticketed so they would have to stay there. So of course I passed and went and hauled triples. So keep at it and you'll get the big picture.

 

have you tried Watkins Shepard yet???



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Just remember it's much easier to say no over the phone in person. We would not even bother with phone calls because we could not see what we would be getting. 100% of the phone inquiries were responded with "No we have no opennings", even if we did.