Company Driver Jobs?

Ok so im just atarting out and have looked at different companies but they all seem to have low reviews. I want to become a company driver and just want to know if anyone knows of a good company to drive for? Please let me know just curious, thanks in advanced.

Ok so im just atarting out and have looked at different companies but they all seem to have low reviews. I want to become a company driver and just want to know if anyone knows of a good company to drive for? Please let me know just curious, thanks in advanced.

Welcome to the site!

Not sure where you read or heard the low reviews.

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Good luck.

If you check around this site, you will find that many other people have asked this same question. I'll give you the shortest summarized answer I can:

There are no bad companies, only bad drivers. The bad drivers lay the blame for their shortcomings and failures on their company, by going online and posting a one-sided rant. You'll never hear from the good drivers having good experiences because they are out working and making money.

Bottom line: if you go into it with a positive attitude and solid work ethic, it won't matter which company you choose.

Don't choose based on online reviews, choose based on pay/benefits, home time, routes, etc.

If you check around this site, you will find that many other people have asked this same question. I'll give you the shortest summarized answer I can:

There are no bad companies, only bad drivers. The bad drivers lay the blame for their shortcomings and failures on their company, by going online and posting a one-sided rant. You'll never hear from the good drivers having good experiences because they are out working and making money.

Bottom line: if you go into it with a positive attitude and solid work ethic, it won't matter which company you choose.

Don't choose based on online reviews, choose based on pay/benefits, home time, routes, etc.

Yes but if what i read about a companies home time online is bad how am i to choose?? Know i mean like i know its away from home a lot but i would like decent home time. But i look something up it says barely any home time.

If you check around this site, you will find that many other people have asked this same question. I'll give you the shortest summarized answer I can:

There are no bad companies, only bad drivers. The bad drivers lay the blame for their shortcomings and failures on their company, by going online and posting a one-sided rant. You'll never hear from the good drivers having good experiences because they are out working and making money.

Bottom line: if you go into it with a positive attitude and solid work ethic, it won't matter which company you choose.

Don't choose based on online reviews, choose based on pay/benefits, home time, routes, etc.

Yes but if what i read about a companies home time online is bad how am i to choose?? Know i mean like i know its away from home a lot but i would like decent home time. But i look something up it says barely any home time.

I disagree with those that say online reviews are useless. You just have to use your best judgement. If I was seeing a whole bunch of reviews saying that a certain company does not live up to its promises regarding home time, then I would take that into consideration. I might also try to verify that information in some other way... maybe try to talk to a driver for that company in person,.. like, at a truck stop.

I disagree with those that say online reviews are useless. You just have to use your best judgement. If I was seeing a whole bunch of reviews saying that a certain company does not live up to its promises regarding home time, then I would take that into consideration. I might also try to verify that information in some other way... maybe try to talk to a driver for that company in person,.. like, at a truck stop.

Thats what i was thinking cuz a company can say what ever they want online or on the phone its just i want it to be certain. So if i see people working for those companies i will have to ask thanks for the advice. Anything helps

I disagree with those that say online reviews are useless. You just have to use your best judgement

How can you use your best judgment when someone with an anonymous name makes a bunch of unverifiable statements? You don't know the person and you have no way of knowing if anything they're saying is true or not. So what you're saying is you think you're so smart that you can take a bunch of random statements by some random person and figure them out. Hypothetical example:

JohnnyKnucklehead123 - I worked for ABC Trucking and they gave me hardly any miles. The truck broke down all the time and they wouldn't fix it right. They lied to me constantly.

Now why don't you walk us through your judgment process on this example because there are literally thousands of statements exactly like this on other trucking forums about every major company in America. You don't know this guy and you have no idea if what he said is true. So what would your judgment process be?

Allen, you're brand new to trucking and you're trying to determine if any of the major trucking companies that hire inexperienced drivers are good companies to drive for. Well let's look at a few facts:

The average company on that list:

• has been around for about 50 years
• has several thousand trucks and several thousand drivers
• has a fleet of trucks that average less than 3 years in age
• is taking in hundreds of millions or billions of dollars each year
• is under tight scrutiny by the Federal Government
• gets dozens of trucks inspected in DOT inspections every single day

Now considering their longevity in one of the most competitive and highly scrutinized industries on the planet I would say each of them have proven themselves to be quite good at what they do beyond any reasonable doubt at this point. So the question becomes what is it that you're looking for in a company? Or to ask the same question the opposite way, what is it you worry will make a company a bad company to drive for?

• If they weren't turning the miles with those trucks they wouldn't be able to make the payments on them so you know they have the miles available.
• If they weren't treating their employees fairly and legally they would fall under an avalanche of lawsuits so you can be sure their hiring practices and ongoing treatment of drivers must be reasonably fair and legal.
• They all have fleets where the average age of the trucks is under 3 years old so you know they have good equipment.

If they have been shown to have good equipment, good miles available, and treat their employees fairly and legally then what else would you be worried about? In my opinion all of these companies will be a great place to work if they fit your preferences well for home time, pay, benefits, and types of freight.

The question isn't whether or not these are good companies. They're obviously good companies and they've proven that for decades. The opportunity is there with all of them. The real question is whether or not you have what it takes to make the most of the opportunity they'll present you with - to move freight safely and efficiently around this country.

So I wouldn't spend too much of your time worrying about whether or not a highly successful company is a good company to work for. Figure out what you want for pay, benefits, home time, type of equipment, and types of freight and choose the one that you feel suits you best. Then get in there and show em you have what it takes to be a safe, hardworking, productive driver with a great attitude and you can be certain you'll work your way into a beautiful truck with all of the miles you could ever want to have.

"How can you use your best judgment when someone with an anonymous name makes a bunch of unverifiable statements?"

First, I said that if I saw "a whole bunch" of reviews saying basically the same thing, I would give it consideration. No, I wouldn't give any weight to a single complaint. And, I said I would then try to verify the complaint(s) in some other way.

I consider online reviews in many decisions that I make. Example, we recently had our hot water heater go out. Now, rather than just let a salesman make my decision for me, I read a whole bunch of online reviews of hot water heaters at a number of different sites and from that I think I was able to make a better informed choice. I approach these reviews with skepticism, I look for details in reviews that suggest the reviewer actually knows what they are talking about. And, I consider the weight of all the reviews, overall.

It's actually kind of hard to explain my process of using online reviews. Again, I just call it using good judgement.

Do you really not ever consider online reviews in any choices you make? I find that hard to believe.

Yes but if what i read about a companies home time online is bad how am i to choose?? Know i mean like i know its away from home a lot but i would like decent home time. But i look something up it says barely any home time.

Allen Fish, let me share with you my personal experience - hopefully it will be helpful. But first let me say this concerning on line reviews, while they may be useful for some things, for a very specific reason, I have found them totally unreliable for choosing a trucking company to work for. That specific reason is:

This industry is completely performance based. What that means in a practical sense to you can be explained by looking at the world of professional sports. People are trained to be athletes from a very young age when they enter the "little league" arena of sports. If they are "good" they will advance on in to other arenas, including high school and college athletics. The ones who aren't really performing so that the team can "win" will either sit on the bench during the game, or they will eventually get cut from the team, or they quite possibly will quit from frustration that they don't get enough playing time. Eventually you get to the level of the professional sports team.

At this level you will find a vast disparity between the salaries of the players, and also the time they are allowed to play on the field. Peyton Manning is making a fortune and loving every minute of what he does, there are also some guys on his team who, you wouldn't even know their names, and if they quit the team tomorrow it would hardly be noticed.

Now let's just say that one of those lesser players quit the team and started a rant on a football team review website. He claims he couldn't get any time on the field, and he was only making a very small salary compared to what he thought he should be making. Now he goes on to blame all this on the "team" saying they are a really bad team to work for, they never let you get any time on the field, and they keep you from making any money because they have their favorite players that they treat really well, but if you are not brown nosing and kissing *@# all the time they will just treat you like dirt so that you can't make any money! (Sound familiar Allen Fish?)

HaHa, we would laugh at that joker, and know that he is the loser! That team has what it takes to win Super Bowl Championships, and has done so multiple times. The problem with these trucking company reviews is that no one reading them takes the drivers performance into account, and the personal experience that I am about to share with you shows exactly what I am trying to illustrate with the sports analogy.

I spent the first sixteen months of my driving career at a company who had terrible reviews, and lots of them. In fact I used to defy people to find a positive review on them (Western Express). Once I got started with them and showed them I could handle what ever they sent my way I started getting these little notes on the quallcomm telling me I was in the top ten percent of the drivers for production, or congratulations you got an extra 200 dollars this week for being runner up driver of the month, things like that. I was constantly getting accolades and extra pay because I was "performing" at a level that they found desirable. I met other drivers at the truck stops who claimed they couldn't get a load out of the town we were in, while I had a pre-plan on my qualcomm before I even rolled in there to deliver!

I almost always had more than I could handle while working there - they kept me moving all across the country, and I never had any problems making a good solid paycheck. Now, had I listened to all that garbage on the internet I never would have gone to work there and built the kind of foundation I built while working for those guys, and let me just say it has served me extremely well.

I hope I have laid out a logical reason with some actual supporting evidence of why you simply cannot rely on those terrible reviews of trucking companies. My opinion, and my experience is that they are completely worthless.

Allen Fish, in this job you are expected to get out there and make things happen. If you do, you will do very well... if you don't... well you just spend your spare time bashing the companies who treated you so miserably.

Ok so im just atarting out and have looked at different companies but they all seem to have low reviews. I want to become a company driver and just want to know if anyone knows of a good company to drive for? Please let me know just curious, thanks in advanced.

If you want to go over-the-road, and home-time is important to you, I would look at Schneider. They have lots of regional/dedicated jobs that will get you home pretty much every weekend.