Go ahead and fill out the application on this site and see what happens, They have 140 some companies they can run your info through and they will get in touch with you, they might even offer to pay for the schooling

 

Oh I gotcha now...thanks for the advice, I'll take it. As for right now, I barely bring home just under 300 a week after taxes. Do drivers get paid less than that? I know during training for several months probably so...but after a year? I'm not asking to be loaded..but you're chatting with a guy who'd be tickled pink with bringing home 400 a week. Grant it, it's driving long hours to get that money..I understand that.

My long term goal is pretty much like everyone else's. Get enough years worth of experience to eventually get a local gig.

 

You should do alright. There are far too many people who hop into this industry with some strange notion that it is a kin to winning the lotto. They are usually months behind on all their bills and have HUGE debt. They are making sometimes decent STEADY money yet They think that the day they walk into the trucking school, their prayers are answered. They end up banging around in a truck and being able to send anything but a couple of hundred dollars a week home for a couple of months and they cannot make the grade with all the pressures and the lifestyle change.

In your case, you seem to have a little reality in the mix. This is a good thing. You will get on with practically any of the training carriers and the training pay will be a little short for a while, when you transition to your own truck, things will be on the scale that you can handle since you set your goal at a respectable low figure. There are people who start out thinking that they are going to be taking home a thousand a week clear or more! MOST weeks you will easily clear more than $400 but there are some strange weeks you WILL make less (like the week you take some time to go home). There are things to do to lower your "road costs" (it costs quite a bit to live out there unless you plan on living like a homeless person) You have to mentally prepare for the fact that you are leaving anything close to a steady and predictable paycheck.

BOL

Fozzy