Trying To Norrow Down What Company To Start My New Trucking Career With?
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The list of companies that hire inexperienced drivers is endless... Swift, Werner, Knight, Averitt, Prime, USXpress, Covenant, Schneider, McElroy, TMC, Maverick, Boyd Brothers, TransAm, to mention a couple off the top of my head.. Millis, PAM, ...
You get the idea anyway. Apply and call away! They'll probably adk you to co a refresher training in addition to company training, but most are more than willing.
The list of companies that hire inexperienced drivers is endless... Swift, Werner, Knight, Averitt, Prime, USXpress, Covenant, Schneider, McElroy, TMC, Maverick, Boyd Brothers, TransAm, to mention a couple off the top of my head.. Millis, PAM, ...
You get the idea anyway. Apply and call away! They'll probably adk you to co a refresher training in addition to company training, but most are more than willing.
Thank you. So I they all pretty much hire inexperienced drivers. Yep there are many! Any suggestions on who may be my best bet?
Get as many prehires as you can. Decide what is most important to you, whether it's money, hometime, pet/rider policy, type of freight, equipment, etc. then begin to narrow down your list according to your own personal needs.
The best company for you is the one that offers what you personally need. They're all great companies. If they weren't, they wouldn't be successful and able to remain in business.
Prehire:
What Exactly Is A Pre-Hire Letter?
Pre-hire letters are acceptance letters from trucking companies to students, or even potential students, to verify placement. The trucking companies are saying in writing that the student, or potential student, appears to meet the company's minimum hiring requirements and is welcome to attend their orientation at the company’s expense once he or she graduates from truck driving school and has their CDL in hand.
We have an excellent article that will help you Understand The Pre-Hire Process.
A Pre-Hire Letter Is Not A Guarantee Of Employment
The people that receive a pre-hire letter are people who meet the company's minimum hiring requirements, but it is not an employment contract. It is an invitation to orientation, and the orientation itself is a prerequisite to employment.
During the orientation you will get a physical, drug screen, and background check done. These and other qualifications must be met before someone in orientation is officially hired.
Prehires:
What Exactly Is A Pre-Hire Letter?
Pre-hire letters are acceptance letters from trucking companies to students, or even potential students, to verify placement. The trucking companies are saying in writing that the student, or potential student, appears to meet the company's minimum hiring requirements and is welcome to attend their orientation at the company’s expense once he or she graduates from truck driving school and has their CDL in hand.
We have an excellent article that will help you Understand The Pre-Hire Process.
A Pre-Hire Letter Is Not A Guarantee Of Employment
The people that receive a pre-hire letter are people who meet the company's minimum hiring requirements, but it is not an employment contract. It is an invitation to orientation, and the orientation itself is a prerequisite to employment.
During the orientation you will get a physical, drug screen, and background check done. These and other qualifications must be met before someone in orientation is officially hired.
For your review: Apply For Truck Driving Jobs
This will help streamline your application efforts. Good luck.
Get as many prehires as you can. Decide what is most important to you, whether it's money, hometime, pet/rider policy, type of freight, equipment, etc. then begin to narrow down your list according to your own personal needs.
The best company for you is the one that offers what you personally need. They're all great companies. If they weren't, they wouldn't be successful and able to remain in business.
Very good, thank you Sue very helpful! That's kind of what I am doing! Now you saying that kinda of helps me realize I'm going in the right direction. There's just so many damn companies I'm going to go broke by the time I make a decision, lol. Glad I found this forum, there's a lot of negativity regarding these Truck/training programs these companies offer. I was looking into CR England a year or so back and read quite a bit of negative stuff in reviews and came to the conclusion that it was a scam. Now finding this forum and seeing all the other companies offering this I can see it's not looking like such a scam after all, too bad I didn't find this out then. Anyway thank you for the help much appreciated. Paul.
Prehire:
What Exactly Is A Pre-Hire Letter?
Pre-hire letters are acceptance letters from trucking companies to students, or even potential students, to verify placement. The trucking companies are saying in writing that the student, or potential student, appears to meet the company's minimum hiring requirements and is welcome to attend their orientation at the company’s expense once he or she graduates from truck driving school and has their CDL in hand.
We have an excellent article that will help you Understand The Pre-Hire Process.
A Pre-Hire Letter Is Not A Guarantee Of Employment
The people that receive a pre-hire letter are people who meet the company's minimum hiring requirements, but it is not an employment contract. It is an invitation to orientation, and the orientation itself is a prerequisite to employment.
During the orientation you will get a physical, drug screen, and background check done. These and other qualifications must be met before someone in orientation is officially hired.
Prehires:
What Exactly Is A Pre-Hire Letter?
Pre-hire letters are acceptance letters from trucking companies to students, or even potential students, to verify placement. The trucking companies are saying in writing that the student, or potential student, appears to meet the company's minimum hiring requirements and is welcome to attend their orientation at the company’s expense once he or she graduates from truck driving school and has their CDL in hand.
We have an excellent article that will help you Understand The Pre-Hire Process.
A Pre-Hire Letter Is Not A Guarantee Of Employment
The people that receive a pre-hire letter are people who meet the company's minimum hiring requirements, but it is not an employment contract. It is an invitation to orientation, and the orientation itself is a prerequisite to employment.
During the orientation you will get a physical, drug screen, and background check done. These and other qualifications must be met before someone in orientation is officially hired.
For your review: Apply For Truck Driving Jobs
This will help streamline your application efforts. Good luck.
Thank you, I will check it out! Paul
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I'm new to the trucking industry, I have a class A CDL with tanker, doubles & triples endorsements. However I have not actually drove a big rig. I got the license from a job I had about 8 years ago & hung onto the license since. We drove a flat bed that was about 50' long (class A vehicle), also dump trucks, truck cranes etc. (class B vehicles). I normally I am in skilled maintenance trades however this field has been over ran by everyone in America, seems everyone wants these jobs suddenly. Having this CDL I figured maybe this is a better direction, maybe driving would be a better career. I am now trying to find a good company that I can get training, I don't need the license I already have it. Could anyone give me direction to some good companies that would be willing to take me on and train me to drive, I am not afraid of hard work or getting dirty. Hopefully a company with paid training. I see most don't pay for schooling to get licensed and that is fine I have the license I just need behind the wheel training & what ever else is needed to become a safe, effective driver. I have been researching this for a while, I see so many companies and so many different offers just not sure which one is the right fit? I was looking at Swift, Prime, Millis and Fee, Prime seems to have the best offer as far as I can see. Now I come to another page that is companies that hire inexperienced drivers and they are all different companies with different offers. Are the 4 companies I mentioned above for people with no license? Should I be researching the companies that hire inexperienced drivers? Or do they all hire license or no license inexperienced drivers? Thank you! Paul
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
Doubles:
Refers to pulling two trailers at the same time, otherwise known as "pups" or "pup trailers" because they're only about 28 feet long. However there are some states that allow doubles that are each 48 feet in length.