Hey Wannabes! This ain't no candy store!!!!

I think I got all my ducks in line!

I don't use drugs
I don't drink
Never been in an Accident
Never had a Ticket
Never been Arrested
Never been Fired
I live in Charlotte, NC lots of carriers hire from here

My only Bad:

I'll only be 21 when I hit the road
And I've had 6 jobs from October '05 till now so 6 jobs in 5 years

just to make sense of my work history here it is:

First job at 16 Hannafords- 10/15/05-04/19/07 = 1 1/2 years

Second job Picasso's- 04/20/07-10/?/07= 6 months

Third job Tire Kingdom in VT- 10/?/07-01/06/08= 3 months or so

Forth job Tire Kingdom in NC- 01/25/08-02/30/08= 1 month

From 03/01/08-03/28/08 I was in Truck Driving School

from 03/28/08-05/25/08 I was looking for a local trucking job so Unemployed for 2 months.

Fifth job Domino's- 05/25/08-06/08/08= 2 weeks

Sixth Job Cardinal Health- 06/09/08-Current job= as of my 21st B-Day 2 1/4 years


Anyone think that work history will be a problem?

American Trucker

 

I think they will take allot of your work history with a grain of salt, since you are young and several of those jobs were when in school.
Why did you go so long before finding your first driving job though?
I have never had any issue finding a local job anywhere. Always had work within days.
This includes Maryland, Louisiana, Florida, NY.
It is all in knowing where to look and how to look. Finding a local construction type job is normally pretty easy, you just have to know where to look.

 

I chose to look for a driving job because I had just invested $4500 in my CDL. And I was only 18 and that spring is when the economy started to plummet and diesel soared well above $4/ gal here in NC. And just about all the construction projects in the area where either canceled or postponed until ? lol And tons of local drivers were laid off around here.

My dad is a dump truck driver here in NC and even he couldn't find me anything. I literally tried every business I could find with a truck of any kind. Tractor trailers, Dump trucks, Box trucks, Straight trucks, delivery vans, EVERYTHING! My dads buddy has a yard full of 379 petes and flat bed trailers and even he couldn't get enough work to put me in one of his trucks.

I never did find that driving job I was looking for. I had to settle for a $45,000 a yr job in a distribution center. And I'll give it up in a heart beat for a OTR job in September.

American Trucker

 

Chrome,

I can tell it is not true. See my pm.

KH

 

Sound wisdom. Thanks!

 

American trucker...if you're making $45,000 a year and sleeping in your bed at home every night unless at a "friends" house keep the job! you're doing better than a lot of the newbies are out here! Shucks even better than some that have experience!