Which of these three jobs would you choose?

Aren’t Swift and Knight the same thing?
If you started at a mega carrier that hires student, going to another carrier that hires students isn’t a step forward.

If home is where you want to be, why not look for a local company?

 

Of those choices, I'd go with Mesilla Valley and that dedicated route.

 

Mesilla Valley is the smallest I think. That is where I'd startstart and look for reasons to eliminate them.

 

None of them. If it came down to that I would just get out of driving and sit at home.

I would never compromise my License or my Integrity.

 

Lots of bad s

Tuff about Mesilla Valley if you search the forum.

 

I would only make a choice after I talked to current drivers working on the accounts you are considering. Recruiters never give enough info to make a good choice. All they know are averages and "up to" pay amounts. You want to know real-life pay and schedules. Think of someone considering joining the military and then telling his Drill Sergeant "my recruiter said I could sleep until 9am and have Tuesdays off." What the recruiter tells you is more like a commercial than a contract.

The info from MVT is a little more solid than the details you post from Crete and Knight. The info for the last 2 companies is what you can get from 1 Google search. That's not enough. Someone is doing the job on the account they are hiring you for. Have the company have one of those drivers call you. When is he home? How much is he making? How long has he been there? What is good/bad about working on that account?

 

Talk to drivers with all three companies if possible and come to your own conclusions. Recruiters tend to say whatever you want to hear and tell a lot of lies. They get paid for putting warm bodies in the driver's seat, and don't really care how they do it.

 

Look on a job site like Monster, Indeed or Glassdoor. There are tons of local jobs around your area if it’s LTL freight, construction, Ag or retail distribution, fuel, bulk commodities, refuse... the list goes on. Start researching companies that you see with day cabs that will take someone with a year experience. Going home every night and getting paid vacation and good benefits is where it’s at in my opinion.

 

If it came down to the best choice, that would be the first one. I would take a look at that contract carefully and make sure it’s your name on the dedicated account and not the truck number.

Also, Denver is one of the stops? You ain’t doing 700 miles going to Denver. The company is probably looking at it from a gps point of view.

I would not even show doing 2100 miles in 3 days (700 mile a day). If I did, I might as well bend myself over and get ready for big daddy IRS audit to come over.