Can I lose by applying?

I have been offered a local job that is two days a week warehouse work and two days a week an overnight delivery in a straight truck. I was planning to apply for an OTR job, I'll make more, and I enjoy been out on the open road, I've done it once before for 6 months.

I told the local company I would let them know monday afternoon. I don't want to turn it down unless all the otr jobs are taken. If not now, I'll definitely go OTR sometime in the future, so will it hurt my chances if I apply to a couple of my top picks, like US xpress, but they either decline me or I turn them down if I change my mind for this local? I don't want them to put anything on my dac or anything.

 

I thought if you had 6 months of accident and incident free experience you had a much easier time of getting hired by a new company or getting rehired by your old company?

 

oh, I see, so normally I might have an easy time getting rehired or picking a company, but the economy is so bad, it wouold be hard for someone in my situation?