WHO IS HIRING AS OF JAN 30 2009 OTR/DEC/REG - FLat,Dry,Refer

I live in Detroit, Mi im trying to get back on the road otr,dec,reg. whatever i know it slow who's a good company thats hiring i called 50 company i hear not hiring in michigan or try back next month....Is it because i livein detroit ... oh yeah one other question what trucking job would be better to looking into refer,dry,or flatbed im still kinda new at this ..............one last thing DONT WORK FOR COVENANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats why im unemployed now

 

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You may wind up doing what I'm doing. Taking some time off, until a company schedules an orientation date.

I know that's not a good thing, for some people. But those of us who can, will just ride it out.

I'm not finding many of the larger companies that are actively bringing in drivers for orientation.

I'm finding jobs, that's not the issue. But many of those jobs, I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole. POS equipment etc etc

Air freight is down by 23%. I don't know the exact numbers for OTR freight. But it has to be big, to affect Air Freight in this manner.

Produce will pick up in another month or so. And companies will be hiring drivers left and right, for a short period.

Just hang on if you can......

 

System transport is hiring out of spokane, WA they told me they

got a midwest fleet they got a yard in Gary,IN and they said they pay for

your flight to there orientation in Spokane,WA

 

Man I hope so, I can't deal with all this sitting around crap for to much longer.

 

its tough to say right now, you may just want to hang tight right now, maybe look for a loca job ** non cdl local job ** till things pick back up again.
but you may find a company, i no western is still taking people, browse around on here, you MAY luck out. but it all depends on your background

 

Try TANKER

I know its not FLAT, VAN, REEFER but it is a cool deal... RAW materials CHEMICAL tank is the most money. But food grade is ok altough it pays a little less.

Companies hiring

SUPERIOR CARRIERS (my company best pay package in tank industry)
CARRY TRANSIT (owned by SUPERIOR CARRIERS our food grade div)

others

MILLER TRANSPORT
INDIAN RIVER
BYNAM
OAKLEY
HIGHWAY TRANSPORT

They are all hiring I can tell you SUPERIOR CARRIERS is owned by
SBL (SUPERIOR BULK LOGISTICS) they own SUPERRIOR and CARRY and own the BULK DIVISION where we do haul flour, etc and have a few PNEUMATIC trailers very few and are dedicated . the bulk division also runs RAIL, and PORT freight also

I will give you some pay for SUPERIOR CARRIERS (chemical)

20 load
20 unload
10 bunk pay each night
15 border cross (paid in and out)
10 drop
10 hook
hrly pay 13.34
41.5 loaded
34.5 mt
37.50 per wk benefits (family) 80/20 BCBS dental w/orthadonics scripts
restart pay (hrly) no cap
layover (hrly) no cap
20 tank wash or drop hook pay depends (same either way)
free uniforms
log LEGAL
pants allotment 75 per yr

CARRY TRANSIT (foodgrade)

38.0 loaded
31.0 mt


GREAT atomsphere and GREAT people ... they care about their drivers if you want some more info just PM me I am just passing on information .. But remember this is tank so it is a different world but I would never do anything else.

TURNOVER % YEARLY

SUPERIOR = 19%

CARRY = 23%

* includes retirement, transfer divisions (food grade to chemical), death, fired, quit, ***

if not included I would say just by quitting i would say it would be less than 5% for both got folks that switch divisions allot and retirment has hit them hard lately so number are up a bit ....

anyway I sound like a recruiter I AM NOT I am a COMPANY driver for SUPERIOR ...

Let me know if you want any more info I dont know much about the other companies listed above...

 

realtyme i have a good job possibility for you.Dedicated from mi to kc..I cant put it in here.I have a direct line for you if you are interested...

 

Have a good relationship with my dispatcher, and we were talking the other day, and he says we are hiring. No layoffs planned, considering we posted a 4th qtr profit for 2008

 

how good is hometime living in mo?

 

weekly ...

I work out of the MEMPHIS TERMINAL

Assigned trucks etc...