Comments By Jay F.

As always old school is spot on. Werner is a fine company. Beautiful trucks that are well maintained.

You sometimes gotta be persistent with recruiters I had to bug mine call his boss to get the ball rolling. If u want to do flatbed you might want to try Melton. I ultimately didn’t go with them. But everyone on the phone I dealt with was top notch. It took them less then 24 hours to approve me and I could’ve left a week later to start training. If your eager u might want to give them a try

There’s no freight coming out of fla. that’s the main reason. Also why u will see a lot of carriers hire north of I-4, and not south.

Generally I think a lot of the vets of this board are too harsh on newbies, but not you. You have a bad attitude and a know it all to boot.

Your opinion on swift is laughable. They are a great company. They have more tractors than any other company. I guess they got that large treating drivers like crap and providing crappy training. I bet they don’t even care about safety. I mean after all how do you explain all those YouTube accident videos? Have 25,000 tractors I’m doesn’t have a thing to do with it.

I went to private school, and there were students there training with swift. They were treated great. Lodging was provided in a nice clean hotel, but swift was no nonsense. One student failed her permit test then failed it again. That was it swift was down they cut their losses. Driving test was the same. You have two shots. I don’t work for swift but I’ve seen enough firsthand to know they are a great company, and when I pass their trucks on the road they are new clean and well maintained

The DC i was at was like that , people who Transferred there said was bad , they had a high turn over rate , people who production was at 110% with max incentives each paycheck were leaving because of the BS. The Pay and Benefits were great . the Work was each IMO , but the way the shift leaders treated people was horrible .

Yeah PRIME was the one i really liked which was a shock they dont hire out of FL seeing as i see there trucks every day.. But yea i know there is a bunch that dont hire out of here . Fl slots fill up fast as its one of the easiest states to get a CDL in .

I worked at a Walmart DC before going to FedEx Freight and I think Walmart is a great company. I wasn't part of any clique and I didn't get any special treatment, I just went in met production goals and went home.

Prime isn't hiring out of Florida and they're not the only ones. Few companies hire out of Florida, that's why paid training would've been your best bet. You pay all this money and put in all this effort to find out that you have no options because of your location. It happens all the time.

As for being a number, I prefer it. Give me my assignments and make sure my check is right. We'll get along golden.

So it was towards the end of the day. I was the truck that had to wait to see if there was any last minute loads, so I was sitting in the office when we heard a loud crash. A new guy started yesterday, and is training! He was fueling the truck talking to his trainer and drove off with the fuel pump handle still in the tank! I bet he never does that again. Snapped the end clean off and twisted the pipe coming out of the tank. It was a pain refueling my truck today!

Definitely need to listen big Scott and the other vets of this site. You need to only go to a company sponsored training program. A lot of private schools will tell you anything to get your money.

We had red light cameras for a time in North Carolina, and the citations had no bearing on one’s license or insurance. It was the equivalent to a parking ticket. Idk about your state.

Yeah, he really taught that boss a lesson. Not!

Nope, I've never been that stupid.

While I would never do such a thing, and agree it’s stupid. I still find it very funny

The days of manual transmissions are about over.

Tell the H/H guys that, LoL~! :)

You’re talking about a very small percentage of trucking. For 99 percent of trucks the manual days are over.

Make it easy on yourself and just get the auto. I know several guys that deliver new trucks for freightliner(I have 2 plants within an hour of my house) and the all day that months go by before they deliver a manual truck.

When I trained with my first company they made everyone train on a truck based on if they had the restiction. Two got sent home even though they had their cdl. No autos were sent home. Funny thing is after training almost all were given autos.,

I drive a cement mixer now. Our whole fleet is autos. My truck use to be a manual, and they converted it. These autos are so much cheaper to operate. The days of manual transmissions are about over

If you never seen it, google 11 foot 8 bridge or the can opener bridge. The videos are absolutely great. It’s an old low bridge in Durham NC. I guy that has an office next to it installed cameras and has a website for the crashes. Over 150 since 2008

The OP mentions in almost every post about how he was accident free for 40 plus years. That doesn’t matter or mean anything. Driving an truck is a whole different animal. Before I got my cdl I was driving 100k a year in my 4 wheeler. It did very little to prepare me to the rigors of driving a truck.

Another point I’d like to make for students that might be training. Remember you’re in charge when driving. If you think it’s unsafe don’t do it, regardless of what the trainer may say. If an accident happens the trainer will probably change his story. They can possibly lose their job as well when there’s an accident. In my training class one of my classmates put the flatbed on its side, him and the trainer were fired.

So I saw this thread yesterday, and had no idea what it meant. Today I was trout fishing up in the NC mountains, and had a classic country station on, and heard the song. I was like I know what 309 means now. Really cool song