Career Development

A 1.87 GPA, a guidance counselor’s nudge, and a $2,200 tree job. How one lineman built a multi-trade career and what he’d tell anyone starting out.

Most advice about starting a trucking career comes from two places: people trying to sell you training or people who drove a truck twenty years ago. Both have blind spots. Recruiters sit in a different seat. They talk to hundreds — sometimes thousands — of candidates every year. They see who gets hired, who washes out in the first year, and who’s still building a career a decade later. They know what CDL school doesn’t teach you, what your first employer is actually screening for, and which mistakes are the most preventable. We recently sat down with Jillian Garcia, a… Read More »