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Welcome back and thank you for joining us for "Part II - How to Narrow Your Job Search". It can be a very daunting task, with all the options available. So many ad's, a thousand job search website's, everyone promising everything to everybody. I think an important thing to remember as a driver is that our industry is just silly. Yes, silly. It is so segmented and there truly aren't any major players in the truckload market. I remember reading a few years ago that if you combined the top ten truckload carriers in this great nation of ours, they hauled less than 10% of the total truckload market. When business picks up, your local trucking company will go down to the truck dealer and buy 10 more trucks. When he has drivers for all of his trucks, he feels he must be doing something right and buys another 10 trucks. When the bank stops by and visits him and gives him the green light for more trucks, he buys him. God bless the optimism of the trucking company owner! My point is that all of the turnover and all the driving positions available doesn't make this a bad industry to work in, in fact its the best industry in the country to work in. The capacity and availability of driving positions reflects the segmented state of trucking, lots of moving parts for a lot of different reasons. Back to business. I hope you have read Part I, if not please do so now and join me back here.
7. How did you hear about this trucking company? This is important. The amount of advertising a company has does not necessarily mean that they have issues finding drivers. There are a number of reasons a company advertises for drivers.(see above) You may have seen their trucks close by home, saw an ad the internet, etc. What about the ad appealed to you? Was it any different than the others?
Sometimes you just have to pick one, sort of like duck hunting. Write down 5 things that appeal to you about a company you want to work for. New Tractor? Home time? Newer Trailers? Miles? Regions they run? Pay? The Dispatcher - does he have any authority on the amount of miles you get and when you need to be home? Fuel network? Company's reputation? Maint.? and so on.
Join us later this week for the rest of this article and more! Please check out our 18 Wheels of Justice LinkedIn group for Drivers and Owner Operators. If you're not on LinkedIn, please join, it is a valuable resource for Drivers and Operators. As always, thank you for reading...
