Profile For Bill M.

Thanks to both of you. Yes, I hear you. I do realize that some mentored training will be one of the best things I can have in my training, so I'm not against that at all, actually I hope I get enough of it and learn as much as I can that way. I totally expect to go through a period of that. I just hope that I'm working toward a time down the road when I'm driving solo. But yeah, I"m not in any rush to get to do that. As long as it takes.

Thanks again.

The vast majority of larger carriers are set up for solo drivers. I don't know an exact percentage, but I would be safe quoting more than 85%.

85% or so is great to hear. If it's higher, even better, and if it's less than that, I can work with that.

I'm not totally against it, I'd be ok to do it sometimes. But it'd feel restrictive to have to always have to ride as a team, and also you'd surely get stuck sometimes with someone you can't stand.

Thanks!

That is company specific. Alot of companies have solo positions. Some do teams, just ask the recruiter and they can tell you. CR England and CRST both do teams so you may avoid them knowing that.

Ah ok. Great, and good to know. I'm ok to do it for a bit, like if they wanna test me out a bit for a while, but I'd wanna know that eventually it'd be transitioning to solo.

Thanks!

Hello, I'm getting ready to do a CDL, but I want to know in advance, will it be hard to get to be an OTR/long haul driver NOT as part of a team? I realize that there is a period of time where they'll have me drive with a trainer, of course, but I mean after that when I'm a working driver, how common will it be to get work driving solo?

Thanks