Driving Class A for 4 yrs but still considered a newbie by OTR companies

I've never heard of that type of truck. Are you talking about truck and trailers? That's where the power unit is loaded with cargo and then you hook a trailer to it by a pintle hook? There's no fifth wheel and alot of time people think they are doubles. Any company that does not consider this type of truck the same as any OTR truck is just plain ignorant.

You're right you'll see this type of truck mostly on the west coast. And just about all tanker companies run them. It's just easier to get around in close spaces. I drove one for many years and it was 85' long and grossed over 110,000lbs. However, my company used ex-drivers to do the hiring and they would not consider OTR experience for driving this type of truck around the city making 6 drops a day at gasoline stations.

 

When we were doing some terminal consolidations a while ago I decided I better have a back up plan in place and ran into the same thing. 4 years of P&D with 10 plus stops per day on a 53' and a few hundred thousand miles with doubles on line-haul all 100% accident free didn't cut it for them. What I found was companies who were satisfied with that experience were much better places to work anyway.

 

You've got that right. Atleast they know what types of trucks are out there.

 

If I read it right he's talking about transfers...Truck and trailer dump trucks where you dump the front box and then transfer the rear box into the front box in order to dump it, Then you transfer back and hook up and go back for another load.

 

Thats how I read it too.