3 months experience
Posted by Caltastrofe@reddit | Truckers | View on Reddit | 12 comments
Any companies(not megas) hire employees with 3 months?
Big Blue company is killing me with voided loads, short loads and poor miles, poor communication and complete indifference from everyone who isn’t my direct driver manager.
Should I just do 1099 with foreigners? Every day I get as close as possible to final if I can’t deliver that day and yes I will drive 10 hours no problem but I’m still not even averaging 3000 miles a week. Doesn’t have to be OTR can be pretty much anything, I’m based in the west coast and do not owe money/time for my CDL
Packingheat248@reddit
Don’t do 1099. Especially for the foreigners. Either stick it out or go to an Amazon freight partner
LIslander_4_evr@reddit
How about the Post Office??
bizzywhipped@reddit
I had the same thought at 3 months with Swift. Don’t do it, it’s a lateral move and it won’t get better before you have 12 months solo experience. Just continue eating a shit sandwich and switch at one year. I’m at 20 months now and can confirm that it gets better. Don’t do 1099 ever it’s a trap. If you really wanted to switch C.R. England starts to hire at 3 months.
But be careful, my buddy quit Swift at 3 months cause he didn’t like their BS and CRE later fired him for illegal U-turn. He could find a job with 6 months exp and 2 failed employments. He had to go to Welfare Express after that.
Stick it out.
MidLifeChanger@reddit
Is your goal to drive all over or to make money? How far away would you consider a short load? Distribution centers get closer to customers so the average length of haul is 450-500 miles for OTR.
Caltastrofe@reddit (OP)
A short load is less than 400 miles imo, my last 4 loads have all been less than 300
MidLifeChanger@reddit
Those aren't horrible if they don't sit on the truck too long. If they get you one or two long loads to make the miles balance out that still be a good week. Sounds like you are averaging around 400 miles/day if you are under 3k miles per week.
Caltastrofe@reddit (OP)
Yeah so it’s a 250 mile load today, and then… nothing else oh hey look they were finally able to get me another load, oh it’s 300 miles and picks up tomorrow. Oh look the load I’m on got rescheduled to tomorrow and now the next load is removed.
MidLifeChanger@reddit
Ouch.
CapitanPino@reddit
Jb hunt will take you at 3 months for some accounts
TheIzzyRock@reddit
DOT Foods is an amazing company to work for but their hiring process is extensive
HolyOrangeJuice@reddit
Depends where you are. Depends what kind of work you want. My company is a medium sized reefer freight. I35 and east. My first gig and almost a year here. I skipped Knight and got recruited here. I really do enjoy it. Had plenty of mega carrier students with only a couple months. But you'll be going through the entire training program.
chocolate_asshole@reddit
three months old school flatbed company took me on but pay was trash and home time sucked, it’s hit or miss, everything’s a gamble now, trucking work is just thin lately