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JewelsnTools · Joined: 11 Mar 2007 Posts: 104 Location: IOWA

Okay...it's time to name names...
I'm seriously looking for a new spot. Does anyone know of a mid-sized company that hires 1st year drivers for 2-600 miles per day, in the Midwest?
No bottles (pepsi, coke, etc.), tanks, or reefers, although I don't mind "tailgating" boxed or palleted loads.
Dock to dock would be great, too, but I'm a realist. I'm prepared to move my homestead, also, if necessary.
Oh, and a company that's heard of "restarts"===at least one per month... :oops:
Jewels

JewelsnTools · Joined: 11 Mar 2007 Posts: 104 Location: IOWA

Okay, what are you not saying?? Please leave some sort of comment, opinion, etc. Am I not, maybe, looking at things properly? Is there something else that needs considering?
Help? Pretty please? :wink:

WarHorse · Joined: 03 Apr 2008 Posts: 69 Location: Madison County, IL

Lots of folks are still rolling - give them a chance to settle in for the evening and boot up the ol' electronic brain. ;)

Otherwise, just do what so many of us others do - a web search.

Uturn2001 · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 6:15 pm Post subject:

Are you looking for OTR, regional or local?

Do you have any experience at all?

BigWheels · Joined: 26 Aug 2006 Posts: 560 Location: Milwaukee, WI

Care to enlighten us a bit with why you desire a change?

Freight is kind-of-slow all over....

vavega · Joined: 26 Feb 2006 Posts: 305 Location: new jersey

what's wrong with schneider? they have dedicated runs in iowa

Jimbpard · Joined: 09 Aug 2005 Posts: 518 Location: Irwin. PA

Move to Pittsburgh, PA.
NEMF is going to be hiring linehaul drivers in a couple weeks.

repete · Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 237

ahh another bad day/week Jen? I wish there was someway for me to help you out with this. You've been with Crete for almost a year stick it out and then take your vacation and use that time to put in apps for local. Also check about transfering over to the dark side (Schaffer) you already pull reefer so what you got to lose?

JewelsnTools · Joined: 11 Mar 2007 Posts: 104 Location: IOWA

I've got a little over a year's experience, but Man, what a year! Plenty of dock practice (daily), and Wildkat's lessons on dock etiquette! I'd like a 7-10 state dedicated route, so I guess that's regional. I like your posts, UTurn. Thanks for weighing in. A friend and I were talking about the truth in your tag line, the other day...

I'm beginning to think the real problem is that I didn't understand, well enough, that trucking isn't a job, but a lifestyle. I don't do well with a round-the-clock "on call" existence. I need more structure, more normalcy. The change that's needed is to get my body and mind back on some sort of schedule--- I'm scared to stay awake, for fear of being called for a night run; then, when I do get to sleep, I wake up terrified that I've gone to sleep driving!!!
I know freight is slow all over, so I've got that "deer in headlights" thing going on, frozen for fear of jumping out of a proverbial frying pan and, well, you know..

Schneider, and many of the mega-carriers, seem too far gone to actually remember that there's a living, breathing human being behind that wheel. I've read, on here (the place I've gotten most of my really valuable education!), that mid-sized and smaller companies are a little more willing to remember that.

Whoa!! I should have put some sort of qualifier on that statement about my willingness to move my homestead!! :wink:
I LOVE it out here! On certain dark, indigo nights, the stars seem close enough to touch. People wave at you, for no reason, and it tickles me to pieces. You can look out across dark, rich fields, and see lovely patterns and patchworks of tiny, proud seedlings poking through...and there's still a sense of morality, here. So, while I would be willing to move, I'll now qualify that with saying that such a move would only be a state or two! Thanks for the tip, though, because someone reading this might be willing to give up this big, open sky for such a cool job!

'Pete, I PM'd ya! :)

Useless · Joined: 08 Oct 2005 Posts: 3145 Location: Canyon Lake, Tx.

JewelsnTools wrote: Okay...it's time to name names...
I'm seriously looking for a new spot.
Does anyone know of a mid-sized company that hires 1st year drivers for 2-600 miles per day, in the Midwest?

No bottles (pepsi, coke, etc.), tanks, or reefers, although I don't mind "tailgating" boxed or palleted loads.
Dock to dock would be great, too, but I'm a realist. I'm prepared to move my homestead, also, if necessary.
Oh, and a company that's heard of "restarts"===at least one per month... :oops:
Jewels
TWO to six hundred miles per day, Jewels??

Not sure how you'll make a living driving only two miles per day, but I'll bet that it's good work if you can find it!!

bigdad7 · Joined: 12 Oct 2006 Posts: 74 Location: joplin mo

how about jelvic

vavega · Joined: 26 Feb 2006 Posts: 305 Location: new jersey

oh that is just so wrong! :P :? do you know they employed over a thousand people? some heard it from customers late last week but no one would confirm it, the drivers found out after they had left the yard monday morning, and then an official notice sent to their house yesterday afternoon.
how would you like to lose your job that way? :shock:

ibamars · Joined: 13 Oct 2005 Posts: 310 Location: New York

bigdad7 wrote: how about jelvic

Do you mean Jevic!!!!

If so. Dont bother. They went out of business and closed their doors

JewelsnTools · Joined: 11 Mar 2007 Posts: 104 Location: IOWA

I wasn't going to respond to the post on Jevic. I thought it sort of cruel and strange that someone would suggest applying to a closing company.

I'm also not sure whether the above poster was serious in thinking I actually meant 2 miles. If so, no, I meant 200-600.

Thanks, all, for answering, though. Still looking.

JeffTheTerrible · Joined: 20 Jan 2005 Posts: 647

If the lifestyle isn't your thing, maybe it's time to search for greener pastures. If you find local work, chances are, it won't be less demanding. While I made it to my own home every night, moving equipment for a construction company proved to be a lot more work than anything I'd done over-the-road.
The only other thing I can really suggest is to be a little more open minded. Don't be so quick to dismiss flatbeds and such until you get the full details. You might find a dedicated run which doesn't require tarping, or may only require for you to throw a single steel tarp, which really shouldn't be so bad.
As for companies, I'll leave that others for suggestion, as I'm really not familiar with many of them. Of course, you'll need to ask questions, and I actually find this forum is a good place to ask. Weird phenomenon I've noticed.. people will be a little more honest about the companies they work for on here, but when you're face to face with a driver of a competing company, they'll fluff it up and make it sound like they're working at the perfect company.
Anyhow, good luck on finding what you're looking for.

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