Oh, and On Topic,

You have to pay your dues, if you do it right it won't take long at all, anywhere from 6 weeks to a year, sometimes more if you tend to screw up.
The job has to have rookie status because there is a lot to learn, and one thing you'll (hopefully) do at a crappy company is learn to contend with your road rage. you will experience road rage like never before, so powerful it takes you over inside and out and only a supreme effort will prevent you acting out on it. It comes of fear, anger and vulnerability combined with a daily dose of unjustified belittlement and disregard from drivers, clients and at a crappy starter company, your dispatcher. I call it 1st year rookie angst and I've never seen anyone immune to it in my 12 years on the road. You get crazy mad, so a crappy company is best at that time, til you learn to manage yourself. A good company expects quite rightly that you will be a pro, and too many or too frequent incidents will have you in turnover city, one company after another.

I started at a company that had the gall to pay me (my best check from them, once I was top of their crappy heap), get this, $675 for nine working days, pretty good for a rookie right? Sure. But for that I did 479 runs not including returns which numbered at around 200. I probably spent a third that much on food those 2 weeks because I didnt have time to sto so ate purchased food on the go and I was too tired to cook so I at purchased prepared food every night, a lot of it. It's not uncommon to see rookies riding along, mumbling or talking to themselves angrily with a crazed look in their eye. They either get over it or move on. Or not..there is always another company in turnover city until there isn't.

Basically, if you are starting out it's going to be hard, real hard. So have a support structure in place if you can.