What's up with companies not hiring from California?

Good man.

 

California only hire the best of the best. The Megas don’t count. They fly in or bus there recruits.

 

Too many rules for most companies to deal with as far as special pay and break schedules that California requires, even for drivers just passing through the state. They were requiring a paid 30 minute break after 5 hours on duty, but the feds overturned that in December. While in California, drivers are still required to take a 10 minute break for every 4 hours on duty. Most carriers don't want to deal with it so they avoid the state altogether.

There are thousands of mostly Hispanic, Indian and Pakistani drivers in the state with very old trucks and trailers who haul for dirt cheap. Next year they'll no longer be able to register those older trucks (pre-2011), so it will be interesting to see what happens to the market out here when they can no longer afford to drive or haul cheap freight. My guess it that it will improve things a bit for the O/O's.

 

This is true. I just had a phone interview with Schneider today ( Just giving myself a lot of options, don't give me ####!). Offering me a regional, western 11 job, doing 11 days out, 3 days off, but it's slip seating, so meh. I am in Bakersfield though. Luckily, 30 minutes after getting off the phone with them, I got the call I was waiting for from a local gig.