You don't know what you are talking about.

250 would be a LOW estimate of the number of companies that will hire someone right out of school.

Do you have any clue how many trucking companies there are in the country?

 

Agreed Belpre. For what the cost is of that place and the training you do receive, I would want a refund on at least half of it.

To get an A it's $5K, a B is $3K and if you want a B with a Passenger endorsement, it costs an extra $500..... :shock: The state of VA only charges $1 per year to have an endorsement and this place wants $500 to teach you even though you can read up on that endorsement in 2 minutes in the manual.

 

Unfortunately I'm only 21 so there will probably be a lot less companies that would hire me. Too bad my almost 2 years of drivng straight trucks doenst help me in getting a job.

 

Recruiter=Dispatcher in my eyes. They will all promise you the world. Then reality sets in, as long as they get what they want to make them selves look good they are happy. Tell them NO and watch the attitude come out.

 

Simple way to find out. Ask the recuiter if you can get two years pay for going to school... In one lump sum.

 

I was 21 when I first went to school. I had no problem finding a POS coolie job right out of school. Granted, that was back in 1997. :lol:

 

i tell you what cowboy i will personally mail you $100 dollars if you can give me 100 companies that will hire out of school!! listen i'm not going to go off on a cursing rant but let me threw some facts out and you be the judge..

First of all some companies won't hire of you coming of school because simply because of your age.. you can be 21 and can go out of state but most companies have age requirements of 23.. that alone puts a big dent in trying to find a company being under 23 to train with..

Second, Some companies will only hire out of a pre-approved school.. I.E. look a Crete!! they won't even give you the time on the phone unless you went to an pre approved school by there standards...

Third, Hiring Raduis!! So yeah maybe you right there are 250 trucking companies that will take students.. So i take a regional carrier out of Washington State that runs the Western 11 should be one of the top priorities for a student who just graduated out of a school in Florida?? get real!!

What i'm saying is a student who has a clean record over the age of 25 has maybe 30 to 40 options depending on where he lives from LTL, to Beverage Delivery, to Regional and OTR...
Now if you know where i can have 250 choices to choose from living in one area?? please inform me!!!

But the only way your going to have 250 companies to choose from is to have over 2 to 5 years experience!! and i'm pretty sure won't no one disagree with me on that!!!

no go try to earn your $100 dollars... i'm waiting!!!

 

actually believe it or not it will at some places.. i had a chance for a regional position hauling cement but do to where i live i couldn't get it but one of the questions he asked me was have i had experience driving large trucks, straight or rigs. and i told him my ex girlfriend dad had a farm and i would drive a 24' flatbed truck that was under cdl to haul hay on and he said that was an excellent thing cause i had experience driving large vehicles outside of just going to school.. but he couldn't hire me cause i live 100 miles away from the terminal (damn living in the middle of nowhere!!) but at some places it will!!

 

I have no interest in doing research for you or anyone else, and I don't need your measly hundred bucks.

I never said anything about hiring radius or where a person lives, that is irrelevant to your erroneous statement about there being less than 30 companies.

Think outside of the box a little, if you can.

The mega-carriers may be the most visible, but the fact is they make up only a small percentage of the companies who hire drivers. There are thousands of owner operators around the country who run only a few trucks that will hire a newbie. IF that newbie is knowledgeable, honest, hard working, reliable, etc... and not some young know it all punk kid.

I can easily name 20 companies within a 100 miles radius of where I live that hire 18 year olds fresh off the farm to run local, regional, and OTR.

Guess what... sometimes a person has to move to a different area of the country to get a good job, be realistic. If there aren't any jobs where you live, go to where they are!

Complaining about not being able to find a job and then refusing to be proactive about moving to where the jobs are is idiotic.

Having 2 or more years experience definitely opens up the options, no argument there.

 

i know you didn't.. i strictly telling you based on where someone lives and where a company is hiring from a graduated from a school sometimes isn't eligible to join that company.. I.E, if they are only hiring up and down the I-95 Corridor, odds are the student that lives up and down on the I-85 corridor isn't eligible!! so again based on where he/she lives she only has really 30 to 40 options maybe more depending where he/she lives.. I've heard people come on and say that schenider doesn't hire students from maine due to the freight and training period.. right there prime example..

and that all depends on who you know and what you know.. i know a owner operator and he says he can't put me in a truck of his if he wanted to due to the fact of who he's lease to and the insurance regulations. so you right there might be owner operators willing to take a chance but is a student suppose to go find him if he doesn't has ads in the paper or a sign on his truck?? put an ad in the paper?? hold a sign up at the truck stop?? go to truckers home and knock on doors who don't have a swift, j.b hunt. or schenider truck parked in his yard and ask him if he's a owner operator and can they drive for him?? come on man you think outside the box

right there is where you are wrong because in every singe state you have to be 21 to go out of state. i tell you what name me 20 that will hire me as of being 21 right this second?? can you do that for me?? 18-21 coming out of school to find a job is very very difficult!! they can't go out of state and they are young.. not alot of people are willing to put 80,000 pounds behind someone who just got out of high school let alone and pay them a damn good wage!! like i said their are beverage haulers, food delivery, farm jobs, logging, and dump trucking but its going to be hard and press to find!!


As much as i wanted to be a truck driver i don't think i'll move thousands miles away to earn an extra few thousands dollars from family and friends.. when odds are the pay scale is going to be that much different.. and plus most people who get into trucking don't have any money to move somewhere else!! why do u think most people outside of some who wanted to do since they were younger or who could just have the money and want a new career, get into driving trucks?? there not making enough money and they want to make more!!

now your turn.... and like always anyone can tell me if i'm wrong at anytime!!