Rookie Experience?

I am a recent Class A grad. Will driving an end dump with a short trailer count as good tractor trailer experience if I want to move to a better local job in a year?

 

i asked similar question the other day except i was thinking of driving one of those pepsi side loader. apparently it is not good enough experience from the information i gathered. there may be some more training you may have to go through

 

Thanks man but I don't understand why it doesn't count. It is a combination vehicle.

 

It does not count because that is said by the "Big" companies. It is so stupid, but this is the fact. Many things are stupid in today's society...

 

Do you think companies actually call to verify the type of trailer you drove

 

Yes, they may call to verify that....so is good to make nice relationship with the person, what telephone number you will give for verification

 

it needs to be a 53' footer

 

Depending on what local work you want to get into. If your are going continue to pull dump trailers, that it is good experience for that type of work. If you want to move it dry van or refer, they generally like for you to have experience with those trailers, along with the different types of Frieght that goes into to them. A perspective employers like to know, that you know how to run a refer unit, so their freight doesnt spoi,l because you didn't have it on the right temperature or you ran the tank on empty, which shut down the refer unit. Yourfuture employer likes to know you can pull a 53' trailer and back one up with out taking out the the side of the building or the lady with the stroller on the corner as you makw your turns. So there are several variables you have to take it into consideration before you switch jobs. I have pulled mostly 53'dry van and refer units for most of 16 years of driving I got it pulling dump trailers and they are a bit different the first thing is there thing, you have think a bit more before back one up just because the are genreally shorter trailers. If you want to switch things up its best to have experience with many types of trailers than just experience with just one. Plus it looks good on your skill list to put down all the trailers youve pulled trucks you have drove and transmit you have have deiven. Examples ate like a 9 speed, 10 speed, super 10, 13 15 and 18 speed. This shows you cam jp in any truck an go,even if you've drove an automatic the only one I have drove is an 18 speed. Even type of truck can be a skill, ex: a 479 peterbilt, w900, hey Columbia, all of these things make you stand out more when looking at prospective employers. So I didn't mean to get so long-winded but over my career I have drove and pulled everything but flatbed and a 18 speed and I was just trying to help a good day

 

Thanks. My ultimate goal is to get into tankers but I also want to stay local. At the moment driving end dumps is my only offer that's local. It's a construction company that I'll be working for so hopefully they'll have other types of trailers as well. So I'll stick with them for 6 months to a year and then hopefully someone will give me a shot

 

Look into hauling asphalt.
Theres a few companies around me that will bend experience requirements to get you in the seat. I don't know much about the gig but I'm assuming it's dirty hard work and that's why they're willing to take new guys.