Training

Well most newbs want exactly the opposite. You are lucky that you will be home every night! The down side imop,is that you are going to learn the hard way first. Local driving can be a real bear! A lot more things to have to pay attention to. In and out of small parking lots cars cars and more cars,pedestrians . When you get threw 6months of local driving, you will defiantly have the upper hand on a driver that started otr the same time as you. I would roll with it...who knows, you might not want to be otr 2 to 3 weeks at a time? Good luck man!

 

Local driving doesn't count as experience for OTR companies.

Make some phone calls to verify this is you want.

Several drivers have posted on here, they did it like that and can't understand why OTR companies won't hire them. So now they've wasted months of time and back to square one.

 

go to school

 

Call around to see which companies have their own schools. I think Conway, Werner, CREngland DON'T go to Swift. Check out Covenant and Schnieder also.

 

That's a little funny that you recommend CRE but not swift. Not trying to recruit or anything but swift worked out great for me and for many others, but to each his own. My advice is to check out EVERY company and make a pros/cons list and weigh your options, some companies work out great for some and others not so much.

Figure out what you want I.e. what you want to haul, hometime, regional, dedicated, OTR, etc. and find a company that best suits you.

BTW from what I hear ROEHL has a pretty good training program as well.

 

The majority of drivers start out OTR. I don't see any reason you can't start your career over the road.

 

Stay far away from CRE!!!!!!