Gaining Driving Experience

Keep looking, some one out their will need a driver.

Try avenues other then the big carries. Agriculture is need drivers this time of year. Construction?

Sometimes you just got to bite the bullet and run with a mega to get the experience. But good on you for looking before you leap. Most mega companies pay slave wages. Extorting the driver to pay them after they starve you out is the new alarming trend in these trucking company scams.

 

try a temp agency

 

I hope you maintained your medical card within the three years that you didn't drive. Otherwise your CDL may not be valid. I think you have to self certify to maintain your Class A.

 

Like what the guy above said, if u didn't kept up with your med cards, your license is now downgraded back to a regular driving license.

 

You might not want a Temp agency.

Ive worked a auction house as foreman for a crew of CDL drivers on truck sale days once a month. And also worked the cars and pickups on most other days. That isnt experience. More of a teaching time off road showing the young ones how the olden trucks air start or introduce you to the push button automatic. Either way.

I did go with another temp as a CDL driver and they called me once for 6 hours of yard jockey supporting 25 trailers from a production building with 4 docks and moving them to the finishing, shipping building with 20 docks stacking dominos fashion a mile down a road. Back and forth and again down the docks. 6 hours of 18 months waiting. Not very good. But it did tell me that I can still back a 53 into a hole within a inch as I used to.

Local running a dump maybe. That might be good for you. It's still trucking.

Never mind those mega carriers. I think we all run for one or two in our time on this earth sometime in life.

 

Knock on doors. The companies that will take you are not going to be listed on the interweb.

It is possible to do what you want to do. I did it and so have many others.

The majority of the people on this site will tell you it's not possible. Ignore that line of thinking.

 

very encouraging to hear that

 

Do you have any driving experience at all?

 

Go to a semi-truck dealership and see if they have a position available for a truck mover. They may make you work in the parts department or warehouse when no truck are to be moved. But the best advice would be to try a company with some type of refresher training and see if you are sure you want back into that life.