Biting the bullet? Which Company

You need to talk to some of your former company's, especially ones in the last 3 years.
I am guessing that most of your driving has been in state or within just a few states of home.
If this is the case the OTR company's will not count any of that as experience, I had this happen myself. I have had my Class A CDL for almost 19 years. I have driven about 10 years of that time. The OTR company's count me as having just over 3 years experience.

Many of the local company's will consider that to be experience though. So you could talk to local food and beverage delivery company's and others.

 

Call plains or Trimac if you have tanker exp home everynight

 

there oil patch jobs and of the two plains is preferred there are also a bunch of them running oil for suncor as well
send me a pm if they don't work and I can hook you up with a couple numbers

 

If you've hauled Tanker's, try an hook up with a petro hauling business around the city.

 

They look at all OTR experiance, but you have to normally have to have experiance in the last 3 years OTR, allot of them want 6 months+ experiance, and they want at least that much in the last year.
Also many companys will ask for a refresher if you have not driven OTR in the last 6 months.
They do not consider any driving that is local as experiance at all. If you drive local for 20 years, on the exact equipment you will use at the OTR company, they will look at that as having 0 experiance.

 

that always struck me as funny that the put OTR in its own category