Hello Again........HELP!!!!
 

Hey ereryone it has been a while since I posted, I hope everyone is well :) Here is my situation, I retired from my profesion in 06. Went to driving school and graduated in May 06. I went to work for ODFL as a student driver, got a chance at a dream job in my old profesion, so I resigned from ODFL and took the job.

That job is now changing, and I want to get back to driving. I spent 2 months with ODFL, I left there on good terms. My CDL is current 0 accidents, 0 tickets. I am not sure where to start looking, or am I just screwed. Any help is appreciated. :)

Mountaineer

call odfl and see if you can get your psosition back

Good to hear from you again but I'm sorry the other job didnt work out. Start making some calls, maybe OD will take you back.

I agree with madlux and snowman, it won't hurt to call OD and see what they say. A pretty decent job for a newbie driver, considering some of the alternatives.

Yep--leaving a company on good terms and burning no bridges behind you is a definite plus.

Start by calling ODFL.

Ditto! 8)

Hey Snowman, how are you? Good to hear from you. The dream job has been a great ride, but like everthing else all good things must come to an end, they are adding ground transport to our duties, that's what I retired from :roll: sooooooo..... I'm looking forward to getting out of the air and back behind the wheel!! Thanks for the advice on OD, I'm gonna drive up to the terminal Fri. and talk with the terminal manager. If anyone else has other ideas I'm all eers!!

Thanks again for any help

Mountaineer

Well it doesn't look too promising at OD. I went to the terminal fri. , it now has a new terminal manager, he didn't seem too interested, said he would check into it, and get back with me if he had a chance before he went on vacation.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO......the search continues. Hope everyone is having a safe weekend! :)

Mountaineer

newbie driver
 

the straight skinny on being a newbie is

until you have 6 months solo experience with no tickets or accidents

its real hard to get hired

except by werner or swift or schnieder

i starved in my first 7 months at werner but did my apprentice time

at 7 months i went to useless express/u s express and got 6 more months in

so i could claim 1 year solo and a clean record

i call them useless for a reason

they promised me 2500 miles a week and i was going to be a high priority

driver on their 48 state x d division

i put up with their non existant 2500 a week for 6 months

because the pay was better than werner

then i left after filling a fed complaint to get paid my full miles pay

my statement to stacy powell when he gave me his over the phone bull

was am i quitting or are you firing me

i applied to crete and with 13 months started at 38 a mile

which went to 41 a mile in sept 06 and is now 42/thats practical miles also

no rand mcnally discount

you may want to try knight transportation after 6 months as i cant say

how they will be

they also wanted me at 7 months when i left werner

crete paid better at 1 year

my last 3 weeks paid miles

were 3075 /3270/3050 and i got 1900 before i went on hometime

if you left your old company because miles were short

jan-march /they were not lying to you

its slow then

do ignore all the fools that will attack this post

because i dont follow their idea of posting style

everything i posted if the way it is

good luck on the road

With only 2 months of drive time under you, the fact of the situation is that the best you are going to do, unless OD hires you back and credits you with training and all that, is that companies are going to treat you as a total newbie and require you to go back out with a trainer for several weeks.

Because of the time frame involved many companies are also going to want you to take a refresher course before even considering hiring you.