At the Indy barn were running our very own bona fide trucking school now. They hire in 20-30 dock to driver candidates then pick the cream of the crop and fire the rest. Were on at least our second round of that many. I don't know the terms of the contract , but I'm guessing its a year or you pay back what Holland determines is a fair market rate for the CDL schooling. Taking a page out of Celadon's book. They built a state of the art facility just to train drivers.
Holland | Making money at Trucking School ?
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Snark Monkey
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Back in the 50's almost every business trained their own employees. Tool and Die Makers, Foundry Workers, etc.
Roadway used to have a Driving Academy down in Elizabethtown KY at the community college. Members from the Road Teams also attended, and the guarantee was that you would be hired upon completion of the course. Training was supposed to emulate 2 years of OTR driving. There were even a few of us that attended the Eaton DDC Crash Course in Kalamazoo MI. Got to pop wheelies with a counterbalanced tractor! Snark, you're right, back in the day, just about everybody did "In House" training.
All new hires go to Indy for orientation now regardless of their experience.
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Can you think of a better place to learn? You could hit several things a day and the truck would look exactly the same as it did when you got in it
I had heard that was the case. But, I'm talking just on our board we have currently about 25 DTD candidates. I agree that training your own people is the way to go, but were doing it out of desperation. Nobody wants to come work here anymore. What was once one of the best LTL jobs in the industry is now undesirable place to work. Sad...
thats how i learned back in 1982.
truck was a...cab over International with a sleeper and a 15 speed.
For city deliveries in Chicago and burbs
I was a warehouse man and went with the semi driver on my own time
What happens if they fire you after you get the cdl? Word will get out from the fired drivers & they will be back to square one....
If YRC were REALLY INTERESTED in retaining quality help, they would restore our pay (or even just a part of it) and PENSION to make this job attractive to prospective employees. Right now, you can hire in ANYWHERE else, make more money with less hassles and get some form of medical with a 401k. I know it's not the premium package that we have (LMFAO) but it's better then what is currently transpiring. Along with the rumors from the competition that they are going to force us out of business and all of the death roll gyrations that YRC has recently gone through, even Jethro Beau-dean with his 5th grade education would run from this company. ATTENTION JIM WELCH & SCOTT WARE: Can you hear us now??????We gave you the answer on how to fix this mess, lose the bonuses, restore the pay and pension and you'll have happy campers just humpin to please!!! Oh, sorry, that was Camel 66's mantra.....
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CF had a driving school all the way back in the 60's in Richfield, Ohio!
I get your point that if Hollands pay was full rate they might not have a driver shortage and could hire only seasoned veterans. However I still feel that if a new driver has a choice of working for a Celadon or the likes or Holland, he/she will still be better off working for Holland, even at the reduced rate. While I drove tractors and double hay wagons from an early age, CF gave me my first trucking job at 21 years of age 27 years ago with zero trucking experience. I'm still accident free today! You got to start somewhere and the only way to get experience, is to get experience.