Enhance your CDL-A flatbed truck driving careers at Montgomery Transport!
If you have a valid CDL-A (required), our Flatbed Training Program allows you to develop your craft, expand your knowledge and enhance the success of your flatbed career! With a valid CDL-A (required) and at least one-year OTR experience, our four-week training program can set you up for success as a flatbed company truck driver!
What truck drivers can expect during the CDL-A Flatbed Training Program:
- On site training pay: $4,000
- Week 1 = $1000
- Week 2 = $1000
- Week 3 = $1000
- Week 4 = $1000 plus load pay
- One Week of in-class orientation and hands on development
- One week of local loading and deliveries with driver trainer
- Load securement and tarp testing
- Successful completion of a road test
Trainer & trainee must load the following commodities:
- Beams
- Suicide Coils
- Engineered Trusses
- Pipe
- Rebar
- Round bar/Slick bar
- Tarped lumber
- Slinky coils
- Building Materials
- Palletized
After successfully completing the CDL-A Flatbed Training Program, CDL-A flatbed truck drivers enjoy:
- $.53 - $.55 cpm based on tenure with previous employer or 27%
- $70,000 - $75,000 per year!
- Increased Weekly Minimum Pay: 30 days - 2 years = $1,200 and 2 years+ = $1,300
- NOW Eligible after 30 days at Montgomery!
- Must meet applicable requirements
- Practical Miles, short-haul, tarp, detention, layover & increased breakdown pay
- Montgomery makes sure your home time is MAXIMIZED! We ensure you have a better quality of life and the time you deserve with your family!
- Top-of-the-line equipment = greater uptime & fewer maintenance issues!
- Peterbilt trucks you can take home
- 53’ all-aluminum trailers with aluminum wheels
- E-ZPass & PrePass
- Rider & Pet Policy
- Rider must be 18 years of age
- Pets must be 60 lbs or less and non agressive breed - $750 non refundable pet deposit
- Paid vacation (vacation pay after 6 months) & paid holidays
- Driver Referral pay $1,500
CDL-A Flatbed Truck Driver Benefits:
- Health insurance benefits are offered through BlueCross BlueShield
- Vision and Dental benefits are offered through MetLife
- Short-term disability benefits are offered through Mutual of Omaha.
- Medical benefits (health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, and short-term disability) are effective the 1st of the month, following the first 30 days of employment
- 401(k) benefits are offered through Empower Retirement and enrollment is available at the time of hire. Once enrolled, the 401(k) will start on the first of the month after enrollment
- Company paid life insurance of $20,000 is provided
CDL-A Flatbed Training Program truck driver requirements:
- A certification of completion from an accredited CDL Training School, as well as a certification of completion of over the road training
- No chargeable DOT accidents in the previous 3 years
- No more than 1 moving violation in the previous 3 years
- No more than 1 preventable chargeable accident in the previous 3 years
Driver experience must meet one of the criteria categories below:
- At least 12 months CDL-A experience with less than 6 months flatbed experience