Whats Your 20????

It's more about it being a tourist based economy when the country is trying to recover from a bad reccesion. No jobs, high foreclosures, beggars in every parking lot and street corner. Not that it was a great place to live when it was booming, but at least you could support yourself there.

 

They gave me a load from Payette to Milwaukee, then Hood River,OR back to Meridian, ID. What the f--- is up with Troutdale, freaking TA is almost full at 3 in the afternoon. Going on hometime, so I am stuck on the West Coast for the next 2 weeks. No offence to you West 11 guys, but I ########## HATE the I-5 corridor.

 

I just google mapped my delivery in Meridian, it is a storage facility, like the kind they open in Storage Wars. Called up the directions on Qualcomm and confirmed it. How the heck am I supposed to deliver there. There appears to be no way to get out once I get in short of backing out into the busy street. We take some screwed up loads.

 

would you recommend may for new drivers.

 

In my newly assigned rig in lebanon, TN. some quick rundown on the truck with the shop and then should be heading back out on the road ^.^

 

Hood River, OR near the Dalles. Shipper doesn't have a dock either.

 

May has been okay to me, they have some good programs for starting drivers. There is BS but from what I read about other companies, you will find that anywhere. For entry level, my advice is pick a company that matches what you need the best, and know you won't get most of it initially. Consider things like pay, benefits, hometime, obviously, but also factor in things like where you will be likely to run, what type of freight, what kind of relationship you have with DM's, ect, can have a big impact on your satisfaction with job.

May is a good entry to the industry, but so are about a dozen other companies.