Florida To Ohio

Maybe what Old School said above is just common knowledge, and I just missed it. But for me it's one of those golden nuggets. Maybe we're taught that in school and everyone just knows to try and do it that way.

No, that was one of the endless stream of gold nuggets you'll get from Old School. That is certainly not something that most people know early in their careers. The way trucking companies operate is quite complex and it takes some time to figure it all out. Rookies always struggle in the beginning with time management and they fail to realize how the relationship between a driver and dispatcher really works. If you talk with experienced drivers and keep sifting through the mountains of awesome information we have here on the website it will certainly help you learn this stuff a lot more quickly.

But there's very little about trucking that is intuitive or comes natural to people. It a very complex and difficult job in a complex industry. Everyone fumbles and stumbles for a while. You'll figure it all out with time but there's really no way to teach people ahead of time the thousands of little details that savvy veterans have learned over the years. There is simply no substitute for experience.

Continental Express in Sydney, oh takes drivers right out of Cdl school(if you go private route). I do think you need to be based in Ohio though. Reefer units.

I drive dry van for Schneider and live in the Florida panhandle. I get to Columbus, OH quite a bit. Because we have an Op Center there and my best friend lives there, I will sometimes request it and they have no problem getting me freight in and out of there.

Although I live in Southeast, I've been to Denver a few times, Minnesota, Michigan, Buffalo, New England and the Mid-Atlantic states multiple times.

I hope this helps.