Entry Level CDL-A Driver - Paid Training - East Coast Dry Van

About the job Entry Level CDL-A Driver - Paid Training - East Coast Dry Van

You passed the CDL test, and now every ad seems to want experience you don't have yet. Here you train on the road with a real trainer, get a paycheck every week while you learn, and then run dry van freight up and down the East Coast.

Getting Started

• 4 to 6 weeks on the road with an experienced driver trainer
• $850 per week while you train
• Your own truck as soon as your trainer signs off
• $1,000 per week guaranteed for your first 3 months of solo driving

• Dry van freight along the eastern seaboard
• Loads stay East, so you don't get sent cross country
• Home every two weeks
• About 2,500 miles a week, mostly drop and hook

• $1,200 to $1,500 average weekly gross
• $0.55 per mile to start, plus 1 cent for every year of experience, up to $0.65
• $15 stop pay
• Performance bonus plan

• Medical, dental and vision after 30 days
• 401k with company match and paid time off
• $300 orientation pay, travel to orientation covered
• Rider and pet allowed once training is done

• Valid Class A CDL, 21 or older
• New drivers: 120+ hours from an accredited CDL school
• Experienced drivers: 6 months OTR in the last 12 months, or 12+ months in the past 5 years
• No more than 2 moving violations in 2 years, no major preventable accidents in 5 years
• Pass hair and urine drug testing and a DOT physical