Starting with Port work? Oakland

Did you attend cdl school?
Old Dominion Freight Line is an outstanding company.
San Jose,CA - line haul driver openings
Be a graduate of a State Certified and Licensed truck driving school, acceptable to Old Dominion and/or have satisfactorily completed the Old Dominion truck driver training program.
Old Dominion is currently recruiting for a Linehaul Driver. This role will successfully operate various tractor-trailer combinations over long distances. They sort, handle, load, and/or unload freight at company and customer locations.

 

Button Transportation in Dixon hires new cdl grads.
Interested in Hazmat work? Button hauls Anhydrous Ammonia, liquid and dry fertilizers as well as numerous industrial tanker work. Doubles, tanker and hazmat endorsements are required.

 

What kind of port work? Containers? I’ve pulled plenty of cement products in a pneumatic from the port of Stockton. Where are you located?

 

I started running the Oakland / SF ports in 1985.. I know its nothing like it was then.. but unless you're paid by the hour, its probably going to suck. The wait times THEN were bad most of the time.. the wait times now after all the security was stepped up has to be worse.. Do you have a TWIC card?

 

I did pneumatics for a while, never liked it.. it wasn't as bad a dislike as end dumps.. but for me it was way too noisy, dirty and of course it didn't pay anything..

 

I haven't done end dumps, but have done pneumatic tankers. I like the tankers, but did learn it's best to have hearing protection. I bought hearing protection like they use at gun ranges.

 

Yeah we had all the gear.. even thought few of the "real men" wore it.. it was also the vibrations and general environment we worked in.. I like concrete and asphalt more that the dust and mud.. lol

 

Well, I suppose give it a try for a little while. Container haulers in the Bay Area are notorious for running hard a reckless. The equipment is poorly maintained as well. I could tell you horror stories from what I’ve seen around the ports. @moloko I’m sure could chime in on that as well. $1400 a week? They are going to expect you to run HARD for that.

Royal has a lot of work with pneumatics and bottom dumps. They work with Cemex. However, I’ve seen and heard that they are slowing down. Conti out of Stockton would be a great company to work towards. The pay is decent and they run good pneumatic tanks from Texas. What’s your location? Sacramento area? There is a lot of work from there. Sac, Lodi, Stockton...