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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;R2_, post: 541175, member: 10584&quot;]I don&#039;t like the idea either, the reason I started this thread was to find out what training companies run to Maine on a regular basis, because at some point all drivers would like to have some home time. Based on my online reading and research, you stand a better chance of getting home more often if you live either by a terminal or shipper or receiver.</p><p>&nbsp;If there was a company that ran Florida to California, chances are that they don&#039;t hire drivers from Maine because they can&#039;t get them home with a load, or back to their freight lanes with a load.</p><p>&nbsp;Like I said before, right out of school I wanted to go with Wolding or Roehl, but they don&#039;t come this far North any more. They used to haul paper out of Brewer and Old Town, and recruited drivers from this area. That makes good sense. But now they only do business in Southern Maine. So they don&#039;t want adrivers from this far North because the driver would spend 2 hours getting home with the truck and 2 hours getting back, burns a lot of fuel and takes a bite out of your work day, maybe not allowing you to be able to have enough hours in a day to get the load where it&#039;s going. I didn&#039;t always understand these things, lets say it wasn&#039;t in the truck school information packet! This site has really helped me to understand things better.</p><p>&nbsp;The whole reason that there is a truck school in Bangor is that at one time there was a demand for drivers from here.</p><p>&nbsp;Some companies still hire out of Maine, hell some of the bottom feeders will hire guys from here with no intention of ever getting them home, the drivers just quit and they get new ones, they don&#039;t care, they make money just putting them through training.</p><p>&nbsp;I guess I&#039;m just going to have to bite the bullet and&nbsp; go with a company to get my training, and not worry about home time, can&#039;t blame a guy for wanting to have the best of both worlds. It&#039;s a lot harder for guys with families.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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