Where did you get your experience?

I did almost 2 years with Swift. Be careful what you believe and what you hear. I WAS NOT locked in a dungeon, paid "peanuts", or relegated to a life of indentured servitude. Got my experience, learned the ropes and moved on. Good luck!

 

CREngland, then JBHUNT. The finest, most bestest trucking companies in THE WHOLE WORLD.

 

LOL!!!

 

I wish there were opportunities like that here in East Tennessee. I can't go OTR because my wife is disabled. Just finding a regional job where I can get home once a week has been tough.

 

How far are you from Mountain City. Danny Herman may have some Local/Regional. Give them a call

 

I am currently getting mine from Napier trucking in Fairfield, Ohio. Hate doing class work so I know I wouldn’t last in an actual college and I LOVE driving for hours on end and just enjoying the scenery. My hope is to get into a good trucking company (although I know it’s not written in stone, which is fine with me) and move out of my parents house (21 years old so I guess it’s “acceptable” for the time being) and move into the countryside of eastern Kentucky and get a nice old farmhouse that I can come to whenever I get to be home. It’s not the money I’m after (well, to an extent it’s about the money). It’s about the experience and I will make the best I can out of it! Napier is a great trucking school by the way and I have no doubts that they will help mold me into the best trucker I can be.

 

The quickest and easiest way to get over that hurdle is just go out on the road for a year minimum. The reason most local companies want you to have a year over the road before they’ll consider you is because being over the road eases you into driving in town and heavy traffic situations. You’ll also be backing in and out of places making local deliveries there are a little tougher than your average shipper or receiver backing into a dock. You’ll need experience for that, trust me on this. OTR, kind of allows you to ease into gaining that experience and not having to go out and do it all at once. Looking back on it? Driving around town all day long going in and out of tight places would not be the way I would wanted to have started out on a truck. Now I could do it easily, I can maneuver this truck in any situation. Having to do that fresh out of school? Would’ve yielded a very high probability for some kind of mishap.

pay your dues, go OTR for a year then pick your local job...

 

I saw it the other way around. Sink or swim. Plus after a year of NYC/Baltimore (mostly nyc) any place else you go it seems like traffic is non existent LOL