Job Placement

We're not just getting you a Commercial Drivers License. We're getting you a job, an opportunity to better your career and your life.

Overall employment of truck drivers and driver/sales workers is expected to increase by 8 percent over the 2006-16 decade, which is about as fast as the average for all occupations, due to growth in the economy and in the amount of freight carried by truck. Because it is such a large occupation, truck drivers will have a very large number of new jobs arise, over 258,000 over the 2006-16 period.* Job opportunities should be favorable for truck drivers. In addition to growth in demand for truck drivers, numerous job openings will occur as experienced drivers leave this large occupation to transfer to other fields of work, retire, or leave the labor force for other reasons. *U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, “U.S. Occupational Outlook 2008 – 2009.” In addition you don't have a boss hanging over your head and you're not stuck behind a desk and computer screen. It's only open road and open country ahead. Training you to get your CDL is only our first goal - finding you a job is our ultimate goal. At Smith & Solomon we have a dedicated placement department whose sole purpose is to find you a job. They are in constant contact with recruiters from major trucking companies updating job lists on a weekly basis and inviting those recruiters to our locations regularly.
The Smith & Solomon Difference: “We are committed to finding you a job.”
	•	Dedicated Job Placement Specialists
	•	Continual Job Placement
	•	Job Lists Updated weekly
	•	Pre-hire Applications
	•	On-site Recruiting
	•	Job Fairs
Read below about success stories in the trucking industry. People like you, who, with a little initiative, have turned their CDL into major trucking companies turning over millions of dollars a year. Trucking Heroes Johnnie Bryan Hunt Sr. (1927-2006) Johnnie was a sharecropper's son who earned $1.50 a day as a teenager. After the Army and several other jobs, he became a truck driver. In 1969, he founded J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. with five tractors and seven trailers. About 35 years later, the company was a billion-dollar business with more than 16,000 employees and a fleet of some 11,000 trucks. To save on fuel costs, he gave bonuses to drivers who drove at 55 miles per hour. He also introduced computers to truck drivers in the 1990s so they could communicate with fleet managers, ending the search for telephones to find out about the next load. Hunt carried a wad of $100 bills in a gold money clip and regularly handed them to people who he thought needed the money. "I was hungry once. And once you're hungry, you're different," he said. Mervin "Merv" Connolly Merv, an owner-operator contracted to L. E. Walker Transport Ltd. has driven over three million collision free miles in 39 years of commercial driving. In March 2005, Connolly was awarded an Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner's Citation for Lifesaving, for helping lift a vehicle off a trapped man and for assisting a passenger who had been ejected from the vehicle following an accident earlier in the year. Clarence Werner In 1959, Clarence started C.L. Werner with one truck at the age of 19. In 1986, Werner Enterprises began trading shares of its stock (NASDAQ: WERN). Today the fleet consists of 8,860 tractors, over 25,330 trailers, and over 14,000 employees and independent contractors. The company operates globally, delivering retail store merchandise, consumer products, manufactured products, and grocery products. The billion-dollar company prides itself in: Highly productive, professional drivers with high on-time service and low accident percentages; one of the best safety ratings of the 15 largest TL carriers in the U.S.; leadership in technology, including a paperless logging system approved by the DOT. Links to other sites: www.truckersearch.com www.bestdriverjobs.com www.overdrivedigital.com