Recent CDL Graduates
Hiring recent graduates and drivers with less than 1 year OTR. Paid 4-week training with your own trainer, then your own truck.
Requirements
- ✓We are hiring recent graduates and drivers with less than 1 year OTR
- ✓Must be a resident of Texas with a valid Texas driver license
- ✓Must be 21 years old
- ✓No Hazmat needed
- ✓No DUI
- ✓No possessions
- ✓No more than 3 moving violations in the last 3 years
- ✓No more than 2 preventable accidents in the last 3 years
Pay & benefits
Pay & benefits increase when trainees are assigned their own company truck.
- ✓Quality and frequent home time (drivers stay out an average of 12 – 14 days)
- ✓93% customer-based freight
- ✓99% no-touch freight
- ✓No HAZMAT
- ✓24-hour dispatch, with most loads being preplanned
- ✓Weekly pay and settlements, direct deposit
- ✓Base pay $0.45 per mile once assigned your own truck — increases to $0.50 at 6 months and $0.55 at 12 months, then annual performance-based raises
- ✓Pick and stop pay
- ✓Detention pay
- ✓Fuel bonus $0.03 – $0.05 per mile (paid weekly)
- ✓2,800+ miles weekly
- ✓Tiered performance pay
- ✓Monthly mileage bonus
- ✓Monthly / quarterly / annual contest bonuses
Training schedule
Enter into our 4-week training program where you'll benefit from the knowledge of your own personal trainer and mentor OTR. You will be paid during the training period. After completion of the OTR training program, you will be assigned to your own truck so you can run solo and begin your career as a professional truck driver. Raider Express also offers health insurance and paid vacation.
Insurance & benefits
Raider Express offers every benefit necessary for a driver to take care of their family and themselves for their entire career. We offer the same benefits as all the big trucking companies, but offer the attention to detail of a small family owned business.
- ✓Health insurance
- ✓Dental insurance
- ✓Vision insurance
- ✓Full-time employees are eligible for group health and dental insurance beginning the first of the month following 90 calendar days of employment. Employees may select individual or family coverage.
Common questions
I just got my CDL. Will you hire me?+
Yes. We hire recent CDL graduates and drivers with less than 1 year of OTR experience.
How does training work?+
You spend 4 paid weeks over the road with your own personal trainer and mentor. After that, you're assigned your own truck and run solo.
What's the pay for new drivers?+
Once you're assigned your own truck, base pay is $0.45 per mile, increasing to $0.50 at 6 months and $0.55 at 12 months. Plus pick and stop pay, detention pay, fuel and mileage bonuses, paid weekly.
Join us! It only takes a minute.
Start your journey to success today. Fill out our online application and be on your way to a rewarding career with Raider Express. CDL classes start every Monday.