just went to the site.
<LI class=Arialbodytext1215>No flatbed experience? No problem!
Paid training available.
My biggest problem is hometime. I can live with missing a few weekends home here and there, but I absoloutly refuse to stay out for 3 and 4 weeks at a time.
When with a little planning you could be anywhere you want. And if the companies push you around like that and YOU put up with it, They ain't screwing you your screwing yourself.
Wouldn't the "recipients" of flat-bed training be "students"?Mavericks site is misleading. It says student program, but really its flatbed training for experienced drivers. They only hire with AT LEAST 6mos OTR experience. If you put in an app right out of school and never got contacted this is why.
Just because you "fill out a three-page" application, there is no guarantee you will get the job. That is true in ANY occupation.I'm not saying it's bad or good. Just put on your site what you actually mean. Don't waste my time filling out a 3 page app if your not gonna hire me in the first place. Just put the job requirements up front.
And I don't agree with that no newbies on a flat. I would prefer a flat. Its a little easier to SEE whats going on. And I would think that you would take more time securing the load when its out in the open then what you would inside a box. I would think alot of inexperienced drivers would fall into the "out of site out of mind" type thinking.
I would also think that experience helps but what about the guy thats been doing it "this way" for 20 years and he's been doing it wrong the whole time???
Experience goes hand and hand with knowledge. I think you should have to take the written test again ever 5 years or so to show that your keeping up on the laws. Not just for CDL but for all driving licenses. ALL the experience in the world isn't going to help if you don't know the proper way to do what your doing.
Geezz, I could fill out an application to be a neurosurgeon, and I should get the job........right?
You are filling in the gaps with what you THINK I want and thats not it. I know what I want. I can live with the BS and the recruiters (I spent my time in the military). I just know what I'm looking for. Best I've got so far is TMC. I know their BS about guaranteed hometime needs to be taken with a grain of salt. And I've done the O/O thing but with mid size trucks and got a good idea how it works. But it makes no sense to me to have you in the middle of nowhere most of the time when your HOS is up. When with a little planning you could be anywhere you want. And if the companies push you around like that and YOU put up with it, They ain't screwing you your screwing yourself. IF its that bad why are you still driving????
I will try my luck and get my so called on paper experience built up. But I have no intention of letting anyone push me around. Like the saying goes "I was looking when I found this job and I'll be looking when I find the next one" The whole point is I just asked for some advice not your not driving material. who the ^%# do you think you are the almighty driver expert.
For the rest of ya I apologize. For the ones who think they are better then anyone else. You read it. And I'll do what I feel I need to regardless of what you might think.
Anyway I'll try my luck, and if I like it I'll stay if not I'll still do the this sucks thing for at least 6 months to get my OTR experiance in. I have no problem "sticking it out" no matter how bad it is once I make the commitment.
your a dummyHere ya go. Give you a start to find some other flatbed companies.
Flatbed Trucking Jobs, Flatbed Trucking Companies
dont even bother this guy just like to ruffle everybody's feathers.Dude i think you took what they said to you the wrong way. All they offered, after you asked i must say, is constructive cultism. Since you were in the military Illa break this down for you a little more easier to understand. I'm prior military also, so don't take that the wrong way. The military and trucking are very comparable. I would say almost can be 99% comparable. In the military things are always being done or said that just doesn't make sense at all. But you have to do it or pay the consequences and that sucks. How many times were you told to do something and thought to yourself, WTF? That makes no sense at all. Well Thad's trucking. Why do they stick you in BFE laid over for the weekend at times and not at home. Just a few reasons are, fuel is expensive(you pay for it and you can do what you want), maybe the load they have planned on for you had some problems and won't be ready until Mindy morning. What you gotta do is relax and enjoy the time off. When your sitting there and waiting for a load, get creative, park at a Almaty/km art near other things and see a movie or something. Yes it is aggravatingly to sit but you only have two options really. Sit there and stew about it all weekend and make matters worse than they are or get out of the truck and enjoy your free time in a town you have never been in. It sucks but you have to make the best of what you got.