Starting Over With Trucking

Dang RealDiehl, I thought I read something wrong! Went back over it , then saw your last post! geez confuse a old woman!

I'm going to have to make sure I get more sleep or something.😩

Dang RealDiehl, I thought I read something wrong! Went back over it , then saw your last post! geez confuse a old woman!

I'm going to have to make sure I get more sleep or something.😩

You're in Jersey?

You're in Jersey?

Yes. At home. I get home every weekend from Thursday afternoon until Saturday night/Sunday morning. My PTA is set every weekend for 00:01 Sunday. I should be getting ready to hit the road right about now, but my load was pushed back to tomorrow morning. At least I get one more night to stay in my own bed.

Hey Jayson, hope all is well. I am the lead Class A CDL Instructor, for the Yellow Driving Academy, in Denver, CO.

1) I have had many students having a past with smoking, and none of them had a "Positive" test result. In particular, I had one student who had been smoking for years, waited one month, and passed his pre-screening test before the start of his class. Of course, UA results differ from person to person, based on diet, fitness, the type of quality and quantity you go through day by day, the overall length of time you have been smoking, and other environmental/physical aspects of your personal life. Research vitamins, and other remedies, that can accelerate the timeframe required to bring your urine attributes below the minimum test concentration that acts as the threshold of being considered "Negative" for your prior smoking. Only perform a UA if you feel that you can pass it, for the reasons that the other respondents have mentioned.

2) Research the many companies that are out there, offering training for your CDL, and the methods of drug testing that they use. Do not, at this point, choose a company that utilizes hair-follicle tests!

3) Have a look at Yellow's open positions for local terminals closest to where you live (including YRC Freight, Reddaway, Holland, and New Penn). Take a look at our available positions using:

Yellow | LTL Truck Driving Jobs - https://www.myyellow.com/us/en/careers (this link provides openings including all of our sub-companies, nation wide).

Yellow's Driving Academy program lasts a total of 8 weeks, of which you get paid $17.50 per hour. If there is not an Academy close to where you live, we fly you to the nearest Academy, pay for your travel (including a two-way flight and a rental car), lodging, and issue you a per-diem card covering any and all expenses you will have for the first 4 weeks of training, while you are away from home. We also will provide a mid-training, two way flight, back to your home for the 2nd weekend. This allows you to go back home to visit family and to take care of any other responsibilities. For a more detailed look at the Yellow Academy experience, check out our training website:

Yellow | Paid CDL Training - https://www.myyellow.com/us/en/careers/driving-academy

Additionally, check out Western Express. They provide training and, specifically, OTR driving experience. Ultimately, neither Yellow nor Western Express may fulfill the position you are truly seeking, so do some research if neither company fits you. As previously mentioned by a other TT Member, a speeding ticket for 15+ over the speed limit could be a deal-killer for certain companies, however, Yellow looks past things like this (when considering to hire you) which is why we have our own Academy, training drivers to become safer drivers before you develop bad habits in a Class A CMV.

Fundamentally, the world of Trucking, in the United States, is a massive and bountiful industry, full of opportunities for every person wanting to become a professional driver. I hope this information helps you and wanted to give you a general idea of some, of the many options, available to you. Multiple companies provide similar, yet incomplete, training programs available to onboarding student drivers. Feel free to stay in touch with me, as I would be more than happy to help you out through the process of becoming a safe and confident CDL driver.

Good luck, Chad Eatherton chad.eatherton@myyellow.com Work phone: (720) 402-6290

Doesn't yellow only have enough cash on hand to make it to August and their credit is so bad nobody will loan them money while being 1.6B in debt? Then they opened the contract to push through their COO only to be met with opposition from O'Brien refusing to give any more concessions because Yellow is the lowest paying gig in the industry and their finances are so bad that the teamsters had to cover the teamcare for members and reduce pension contributions.

Outside of all that, their limiting how many drivers they can send out to do P/D work leaving a bunch of pick ups untouched and angry customers.

I also know of a few people that got hired into Yellow's academy only to get laid off. To add insult to injury, they get called back and then laid off again.

Nobody should be looking at going to any Yellow company right now.

Doesn't yellow only have enough cash on hand to make it to August and their credit is so bad nobody will loan them money while being 1.6B in debt? Then they opened the contract to push through their COO only to be met with opposition from O'Brien refusing to give any more concessions because Yellow is the lowest paying gig in the industry and their finances are so bad that the teamsters had to cover the teamcare for members and reduce pension contributions.

Outside of all that, their limiting how many drivers they can send out to do P/D work leaving a bunch of pick ups untouched and angry customers.

I also know of a few people that got hired into Yellow's academy only to get laid off. To add insult to injury, they get called back and then laid off again.

Nobody should be looking at going to any Yellow company right now.

Ouch

Ouch

I can see that, but it wasn't my intent.

Bobcat and I have been letting folks know that now is not the time to jump into LTL. When it's good it's great, but when it's bad it's really bad.

Yellow is in a really bad place and their tonnage is down just like everybody else's. Investors are telling them to ease on spending because they're hemorrhaging money and their answer was to send out less trucks.

Jayson is going through a hard time right now and here comes recruiter Chad offering the world and encouraging him to find ways to beat a drug test. That's disgusting behavior and it's not what we do here.

Bobcat and I have been letting folks know that now is not the time to jump into LTL. When it's good it's great, but when it's bad it's really bad.

I was going to reply to this statement, but I was on the lake and had zero fish as well as zero internet service. You nailed everything I was thinking.

YRC is in the middle of a fight with their union again and said they will be out of money in August if the union doesn't allow them to do what they want.

To come in and start talking about how great YRC is when they may not even be around soon, is dishonest and quite frankly reeking of desperation.

I can't defend this recruiter. I was blushing as I read the post. That's why he's a recruiter. He will do anything to make a dollar.

Yellow companies seem to be in deep trouble, but this isn't their first rodeo. That union has friends in high places, and they typically get bailed out by government money. We shall see what happens in this latest round of a long fight.

I certainly wouldn't advise anyone to take a job at a place that continually requires a handout from the government's printing presses.

Yellow companies seem to be in deep trouble, but this isn't their first rodeo. That union has friends in high places, and they typically get bailed out by government money. We shall see what happens in this latest round of a long fight.

This feels different. The government loaned them 700M in 2020. This administration is calling for an investigation of that loan, which sounds like it won't be forgiven.

They also can't borrow money because their credit rating was reduced from a bad B3 to a worse Caa1 by Moody’s Investors Service.

Now Sean O'Brien and the brass at Yellow are publicly bickering and lobbying personal attacks at each other.

The main points seem to be yellow teamsters wanting more and yellow not having more to give. Yellow wants to consolidate all the companies they have into one network, but the employees don't want to change their job descriptions that would include different work tasks and a lower pay rate. Yellow says if they can do what they want to do and consolidate the businesses they can sell the real estate and pay off the debt. Teamsters say we've heard this all before, restore our full pension benefits and give us a pay raise then we'll talk.

Yellow can't afford the raise and the teamsters won't budge until they pay it. To be fair to the teamsters, Yellow has a history of crying doom and gloom. They've gotten the concessions they want and once the contract is signed, they try to buy another company.