my boy has a 379 peterbilt and a 48 foot transcraft flatbed and has been a company driner pulling a dropdeck hopper bottom and side dump trailer for about 18 months. He went out on the wheat harvest when he was 18 as a truck driver and is currently in Nebraska pulling a side dump for a large feedlot /cattle company.he is ready to come home and run his own tractor and trailer. Great american lines will hire him but only if he hauls a trainer with him for 5 weeks CRST Malone hired him but did not notice his age so they said sorry got to be 25 He was planning on hauling steel mostly coils but now is running into a dead end they both said they would hire him before he bought the truck and I gave him my trailer.He is not one of the tatoo earing hat on sideways or backward pants hang down trucking school graduates. I have taught him how not to break things and will make a good driver. Any idaes?

Maybe he should just look at geting his own authority. He can then get around the age problem. Insurance might be high though, until he gets a little older.

thankfully he had the money to pay cash for the tractor and have it overhauled complete rebuild with block sent to the machine shop new cam bearings water pump oil cooler polished the crank machined the top of the block new fass fuel system OPS ecopur oil bypass system new vibration dampener rebushed the rear suspension New injectors new fuel pump the whole nine yards he belives in doing things right just as I do N14 set at 460hp 9 speed overdrive 390 rears 24.5 low profile tires and he runs 58 miles an hour just like I do so he should get 6 miles toa gallon and you can tell he is not a big time trucker just buys what is needed to get the job done. Forgive me I am not bragingjust well pleased.

Insurance for him was quoted at 22000 and a 500 miles radius was all they would do. So he is gonna have to lease to a carrier. They two carriers I mentioned both saidthey would take him before we did this this now the story has changed I am sure he could go pull a van or reefer for one of the big boys. Iam with mercer they said no up front.

Harvest was exempt on the age thing. He started in Indiana and hauled the tractor and grain cart to california to start the wheat harvest then to colorado and on up to montana and then hauled everything back to Indiana when they were finished. In Nebraska they are hauling 95000lbs on seven axles so he has a good grasp on what is going on. thanks for your input.