Perenial CDL Opening?

I'd be remiss if I didn't post about this local Frederick Company who has a Permanent Help Wanted Ad in the local newspaper. Actually these people are right across the street from my new home on New Design Rd:

MATTRESS WAREHOUSE

HOME DELIVERY DRIVERS WANTED

(CDL Class A) Rapidly growing retail chain seeking CDL certified truck drivers. FT/PT day/eve positions. TRAINING. $1000 SIGN-UP BONUS details at interview. Income potential up to 60k! Home every night, new A/C trucks, top pay with excellent benefits package: 401K, Health & Dental. BRING COPY OF DRIVING RECORD. Background check performed. Drug testing REQUIRED. Apply in person: 4949 New Design Rd, Frederick .

And just North and West of Frederick Maryland here's another perennial always need help Permanent Help Wanted for CDL Truck Drivers ad I always see:

D.M. Bowman

Drivers CDL-A Solo Drivers for Regional Positions $5,000 Sign-On Bonus for Teams More pay if you have HazMat Endorsement. D M Bowman Inc. www.joindmbowman.com

1-800-609-0033

Now I've always wondered if there was something wrong with a company that, for some reason, couldn't seem to keep a driver happy...

With Bowman and Hahn Transportation, I believe the reason they seem to always need help is because of geography. There isn't any public transportation where they're located, and often you've got to be at work at 3:00AM or something similar.

Ditto for Mattress Warehouse, the bus doesn't come down the road that far...

Not sure what Mattress Warehouse is paying, perhaps that is why they always need help? I'll apply there just to find out and report back here.

I know Hahn pays $16 per hour for bulk tankers (dry cement tankers), and Hahn pays $19 per hour for gasoline drivers with a little extra for night differential.

I always preferred to deliver gas at night.. wanted the streets and highways to myself and wanted the gas station to be empty when I got there:)

I've heard that the amount of work Bowman has goes up and down, sometimes Bowman can get a decent paying contract to haul different materials and sometimes it's slim pickings.

With fuel prices at the lowest levels in a very long time I believe hauling contracts will increase. If it costs too much to get it there, and the profit isn't there to cover the costs the frieght will just have to sit there until the economics change. That is NOT true for:

Food,

Trash

Those two items will get trucked no matter what the economy is doing.


Speaking of trash... there is residential trash, sanitary trash (a euphemism for the stinky crap), construction trash (rubble), municipal trash.

From Frederick Maryland CDL Truck Driving Jobs

This is the municipal variety, these guys haul the trash OUT of Frederick's Landfill. Apparently, some trash gets buried and some gets hauled out. This picture is from behind Costco at the Travelodge.

Travelodge is one of the few places in Frederick where a big rig can get parked. If you're staying at the Travelodge (upwards of $50 a night) you can park for free.

Truck drivers usually get discounts at hotels, we give keep them busy!
If you're not staying there, Travelodge will still let you park a tractor and trailer for a monthly fee. Last time I asked (I was driving for Superior Carriers at the time) the fee was $100 month. I'll have to inquire if that's gone up or down.

That's all I have today.
see ya


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Career Over The Road pays big time

Are you interested in a career on the road? OTR

OTR= Over The Road

There are few careers where you are able to visit so many great destinations in the United States while getting paid big bucks. If you enjoy driving and like being your own boss, the trucking industry has great opportunities that are perfect for your lifestyle.

Want to join the trucking industry?

Before you can get on the road, however; training is required for your CDL license. I've compiled a list of nationwide truck driver training programs to choose from.

From beginner to advanced classes, you will find a truck driving school in your area. Be ready with commercial vehicle training that will get you prepared to pass the test and receive your commercial driver's license (CDL).

Find specialized instruction or general truck drving classes. Your new truck driving career is only a class away. Sign up with a truck driving school today and be a big rig truck driver soon!

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Frederick Community College
(My son in law got his CDL there)
PO Box 541
Frederick, MD 21705
Phone: 301-698-5364

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Professional Truck Driver Program
8042B Reichs Ford Road
Frederick, MD 21704
Phone: 888-331-0703

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And these people were where I got
my Class A training from:

Drive Rite Trucking School
202 Bertram Cir
Glen Burnie, MD 21060
Phone: 410-766-8456

I really liked these folks, I'd been
driving for over 20 years already but
with a Class B licence.

With Drive Rite you don't have to pay
for instruction you don't need!

I thought Drive Rite had a better 'business model'
with these guys you're *Renting the Truck*
and it just so happens that the CDL truck comes with a
Driver Instructor!!

The owner really knows how to teach, I should know, I've
trained dozens of drivers over the past 26 years.
He told me when to look in which mirror and when to cut
my wheels when I saw X, Y, or Z in different mirrors.









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Over the Road JOBS in Frederick TODAY

Last week when I checked the local newspaper (that shall remain anonymous in this blog because I'm competing with them) I saw a few OTR CDL job openings...

That was in the Sunday paper. On Monday the ads were gone?

Filled that quickly?

OK, today there are several, which tells me that the price of diesel being lower is leading to trucking companies being more willing to hire more drivers.

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Here's today's list, Sunday November 9, 2008:



Experienced Driver
Trainers Wanted!
Werner Enterprises,
get 1st day approval.
Class-A CDL req.
Our trainers make
$65,000-$100,000 Year 800-346-2818, x227

Ok, I'm not a qualified trainer... Even though I've trained dozens of rookie drivers over the past 26 years, I've also got some suspensions on my CDL driving record.

Those suspensions were from not turning my MD tags in and canceling the MD liability insurance... I was told once, "your driving record denotes a pattern of irresponsibility"

I wish the shoe didn't fit... I've been doing my penance.

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Here's the next CDL truck driving job listed in Frederick Maryland:

DRIVERS
$975 to $1092 Average Pay
Regional Drivers
Major Accounts in Virginia
Condo Fleet
Reefer Experience Beneficial
Six Months Recent Exp CDL A
Plenty of Freight
Excellent Home Time
NAPA Transportation, Inc.
Harrisonburg, Virginia
Call Laddie
800-794-4639
www.napatran.com

Here is a graphic of the area NAPA Transportation runs,
it looks like they run in the NorthEast:


And I'm thinking that you'll be hauling to Auto Parts Stores all over the North East.

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Drivers CDL Class A

Tired of Looking?
We’ve Got What
You Need!
SINCE 1958

Excellent Pay

Plenty of Freight

Professional Equipment

Drivers Out 7-10 Days

Min 23 yrs old, 1 yr. Over The Road Experience,
Requires Class A CDL

www.smxc.com
888-864-3490

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Attention Drivers!

TOP PAY FOR
TOP DRIVERS
Better Performance,
Higher Pay
Expect the Best at TMC
*Performance Based Pay!*
*Best Equipment
on the Road!*
You Deserve
Strength & Stability
WE HAVE IT!

Call TMC Today
866-617-1549

Recent Graduate of a CDL school?
Need your CDL? Call 866-798-6960
www.tmctrans.com

And it looks like you'd be hauling Steel, Lumber and Equipment for this outfit,
which means you'll be running a flat bed, something I've not done yet...

With a flat bed you've got to strap down your loads, check them for the freight shifting, and it can get cold chaining your load down- did you see Ice Road Truckers?

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Drivers- Solos & Teams
€ $44K-$55K 1st yr
€ Bonus every 30k miles
€ Pay increase every 60k
miles
€ 4 to 5 wks paid vacation
€ Blue Cross/Blue Shield
€ CDL Class A license req.
(800)432-1594
www.driveceladon.com

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There is always an add for a local mattress company, I'm not going to list it here...
I'm thinking to myself: "What's wrong with this company that they can't keep drivers?"

Either the money's not enough to balance out what ever pain in the ass the job is.
OR
Management has a 'control freak syndrome' going on.

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And FedEx in Hagerstown is looking for seasonal drivers, pay is $11.22 an hour, No CDL required.

That's it for local Frederick Maryland CDL career opportunities for this week end.

Stay Tuned....

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Get a job driving in this economy

With all the bad economic news coupled with skyrocketing fuel prices I was beginning to believe that I might be forced to change my position that I espouse in this blog:

Demand Exceeds Supply

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The truck driving company needs us drivers more than we need them.

This depends on what part of the trucking industry you choose.

Off Road construction
Daily city delivery
Freight (home every night)
Over the Road

Off Road or Construction was my entry into tandem trucks. The building boom of the 1980's led to a feeding frenzy of dump trucks, concrete mixers, roll off trucks, flat bed dumps (lumber trucks). And Overtime fueled my passion for construction.

Now, in 2008, with the housing market bubble burst, residential construction is no longer a buyers market, there are simply too many dump truck drivers available to fill too few openings. And the openings that there are don't last the entire season.

So,why stay in a dump truck? Because it's what you're used to???

Now since the presidential election, the price of fuel dropped dramatically (wonder why?) Now freight might be profitable again...

What does one do when one wants job security?

Do what nobody else wants to do.

There are plenty of disagreeable jobs, my very first tractor trailer job was hauling waste oil, it was dirty, slimy, and no one wanted my job... so I got all the overtime I could handle!!!

I made $1000 a week hauling what no one else wanted to haul, averaged over 13 weeks, and this was in downtown Baltimore, where the cost of living was about half of what it cost to live in Montgomery County Maryland at the time.

So if you want to change careers and get into driving CDL trucks do not let the oldtimers scare you away! You're a rookie, they've 'payed their dues'.
They aren't willing to do what's necessary to make the big bucks, and they're so pissed off that the status quo has changed that they're indignant.

Too indignant to hunt down what is in demand, preferring to wait and let the gravy come to them.

If I was a newbie driver and had the tanker endorsement on my new CDL licence, I'd look up a local company that hauls waste frying oil, that's right, old cooking oil.

Why?

Because that stuff will eventually be made into bio diesel, and the company that hauls and manages that stuff, well the first one with the foresight to process it into Bio Diesel is sitting on a gold mine!

I'd sure like to be a tenured, ranking old timer in an industry that's going to make a profit no matter what the economy is doing. I'd sure like to have seniority at a place like that!




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F.O. Day Company in Frederick MD

How to Dump Asphalt:

When you get loaded with asphalt, it's HOT, asphalt is "Gloopy" like oatmeal, it's made out of tar and various sizes of gravel.

To dump it, you have to back up to the paver (asphalt paving machine that looks like a farm tractor of sorts).

The paving machine can't take your entire load... so you have to raise the bed slowly, the paving operator will give you hand signals to tell you when to STOP raising the bed.

The asphalt will slide out, not all at once, it'll trickle down until the bed of your truck get's to a point where gravity overcomes the stickyness of the asphalt.

At that point you lower the bed quickly.

The operator will most definitley get pissed off at you if you overload his machine!


Hazmat and Tanker:

Before they lay down the layers of asphalt, they have to coat the underlaying surface with a sort of glue, they call that glue "TACK"

The "Tack Truck" is the one piece of equipment I've not driven, even thought I do have both the tanker and hazmat endorsements.













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Frederick MD CDL Jobs

The beauty of driving a Roll Off Truck is that you get to work more often...
even if it's been raining for days! The photo above was taken in Frederick Maryland of a Roll Off Truck leaving the Great Frederick Fair fairgrounds on E. Patrick St.

Why drive a dump truck at all?



OVER TIME!!! Time and a Half!

Look at it this way: the construction company will only get on average, maybe 200 rain free/ snow free days a year to get an ENTIRE YEARS worth of work completed.

so... you're going to get paid a years pay but have that years pay condensed into 2/3 of a year!... collect unemployment the other third of the year or work a part time job or what ever.

What is the difference between a Roll Off and a Dump Truck you ask?

Both have beds that dirt/stone/trash debris can get put in and dumped...

The Roll Off can leave the bed onsite, the dump truck has to stay there (with the meter running... most dump trucks in Frederick get rented out at the rate of $60 per hour (the company that owns the truck gets that, you get roughly $13 per hour)

Another thing a Roll Off can do that a dump truck cannot:

The dumpsters come in different sizes
1) big ones, 40 yard cans
2) medium ones, 30 yard cans like the can in the KW photo in the previous post
3) little ones, 20 yard cans - they LOOK little because they're not as tall but usually 20 yard cans get used for dirt/ demolition/ bricks/ cinder blocks/ concrete
they WIEGH more but aren't as tall

A small back hoe can not reach up to the side of a full size dump truck, but the can reach the sides of a 20 yard can.

Get your CDL as soon as possible.

The economy's 'status quo' is changing... you change with it and you'll be fine.


Next Post? Maryand MVA CDL learners permit how to.




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Roll Off Trucks vs Dump Trucks

The worst thing about driving a CDL dump truck is most of the time you have to stay home when it rains.

It might rain 'cats n dogs' one day and take three more for the jobsite to dry out.

I preferred driving a trash truck when it rained... not a house to house trash truck, but a construction dumpster truck - A Roll Off truck.



I drove this sweet (it was sweet then) KW when I lived in Catonsville Maryland.

Got paid $16 an hour and $24 for time and a half.

You'll get wet covering the load with a tarp when it rains, but it sure beats staying home for 3 days ... three days off kills your acumlated overtime.



This pic was in the last post as well... it's a trash truck:

A Walking Floor Trailer. it doesn't dump, the floor moves, kinda 'pumps the trash off'.
What you do is hook up a 'wet line', slang for the hydraulic pump that drives the floor back and forth. Hence the term: Walking Floor.

This tractor trailer was photographed in the Travelodge parking lot off Route 70 and Route 85 in Frederick Maryland.



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