Orientation With CCC Transportation (Comcar Industries)

They also do tuition reimbursement at $150 a month.

Congratulations I hope everything goes good for you. I am just about to start training at my local technically college, and I have been looking around at different companies to start out with possibly when I graduate and CCC Transportation is one of them. So I was wondering if there was any information and tips you could give me about the company, the hiring process, orientation overall, the trucks, what made you go with them, anything really would be a great help?

Thanks JC. I did my training at a Technical College down here in Florida. Eight weeks worth and over a 1000 miles of driving. So far I'm happy with them. The pay is not the greatest, but they'll tell you up front that you won't get rich with them. Orientation wasn't to bad, 5 days worth in 4 days. :)

Orientation is paid at $76 a day. The hotel is so-so and breakfast is provided there. They also provide lunch, dinner is on you. The first day is physical agility, road test and a DOT physical. They have all automatic transmission trucks. I'll be doing dry bulk tanker which is a big part of their operation. But they also do van and some flatbed in CCC.

The nice part is that CCC is under Comcar Industries which has several different diviisions. CCC is mostly dry bulk and van. CT is flatbed. MCT is reefer and CTL is chemical tanker. After 6 months you can move to another division and your time goes with you.

In CCC I'll be getting paid a percentage (20.9%) of the load rather than cpm. I initially was looking at a regional gig with them driving FL, AL, GA and the Carolina's out 5 and home 2 for the most part, but by the time I finished school I ended up with a local position home every night. No endorsements needed with CCC by the way.

Let me know if you have any other questions about them. Good luck to you!

Thank you Diver I really appreciate you getting back to me so fast, and all that great information. I'm really looking forward to getting into trucking, I have wanted to for a long time. I just have been trying to find the best company to start out with I can. Not so much money wise necessarily, but just a good reliable company that treats their drivers good. As well as just to get the opportunity to gain all the experience I can. What did the physical agility test consist of? Was it hard going from just learning how to drive manual and then switching to automatics? I live in nw Georgia and I was leaning towards the regional position too, what made you switch and are there only local opportunities if you live in Florida? And how does the percentage pay average out weekly in general as compared to cpm? Sorry for all the questions lol, just trying to learn all I can. I thank you for your time, and look forward to hearing back.

No problem JC. The physical agility was no big deal. They have you pick up a box from the ground properly and setting it on a shelf 2-3 times with 3 different amounts of weight. They have a table set up to simulate climbing up in the back of a trailer that you do 3 times. You climb up and down a ladder 3 times and a few other things that are no big deal. All in all, unless you are dead you should be able to pass it. lol

Driving the automatic was a little different. My left leg kept wanting to come up. It doesn't get going quite as quickly as I was used to with shifting on my own, but for slowing down and not having to worry about downshifting it was pretty nice.

The only reason I switched from the regional to the local was because by the time I finished school they didn't have any regional spots open so I took the local to get started. They did say if a regional opened up I would be able to switch over to it. As far as I know they have local available in Georgia too especially if you are doing dry bulk.

As far as the percentage pay goes I can't really say how it compares to cpm. I just know if you aren't loaded you aren't making any money. So the pay will depend on how many loads you get to run a day. They told me that I can get cross trained for flatbed so if there aren't enough loads of one I can do the other.

No problem with the questions, that's how you learn stuff. And this site has a wealth of information. Anything else, just let me know!

Thank you Diver I really appreciate all your help and all the information you helped me with so far. I start school in a couple weeks and I am very excited to start training for my new career, and with all your help I think starting out CCC transportation is definitely one of my top choices. Keep me updated on how your first day goes, and I pray everything keeps going good with you. God bless and stay safe.

Oh and also how long to you have to be out with a trainer until you go solo?

Well, today was my first day with my trainer. Things went pretty well. He and I hit it off pretty good. There were a few things that happened that put us behind before we got on the road for our first delivery. He says tomorrow should go smoother. First load from Newberry to Tarpon Springs, offload and then back to Newberry for another load. Second load went to Bunnell then back. Used all our on-duty 14 hours too. Back out at 5:30 in the morning to do it all over again. Doing local isn't going to be to bad and dry bulk is going to be okay too. No having to sit at loading docks for hours on end. :)

JC, training for the dry bulk is anywhere from 1 to 3 weeks and then you're out on your on. Figuring out which valves to open and when and how to adjust the flow so you don't clog up is the biggest thing to learn besides the paperwork.

Thanks for sharing all your info on CCC, Diver. Great info for me as I was contacted by them this week about starting with them in two weeks when I finish driving school. They were one of my first choices for a company to work with.

Glad you found it useful David M. I just finished my first week with my trainer. He was all set to sign off on me as a solo driver today, but since I came on right out of a school we were told that Safety would not go along with just one week of training. No biggie though, it just gives me more time to get comfortable with unloading the dry bulk and get to learn more about places we deliver. I haven't been to the port in Tampa yet with a delivery, but I will be going there next week with my trainer. He had told me about it, but I wasn't looking forward to trying to go in there on my own without having been there at least once before. So now I won't have that worry hanging over my head.

Are you looking at going in to the dry bulk or van? They also do a little flatbed too. Training pay is $9.50 an hour btw. I'm pretty happy with them so far. Good luck and let me know if you have any other questions.

And welcome to Trucking Truth btw! It's a very informative and useful site.

I will talk with CCC again next week and get some more info from them regarding dry, bulk,etc. I also am wanting to talk to Dillon. I have heard good things about them. Two more weeks of school so I want to have a position lined up before I get out.