Where did you get your experience?

Dump truck

 

I got mine in the back seat of a 1963 Oldsmobile with a girl named Carol........oh you meant driving...never mind.

 

Mom -n- pop food grade outfit in Baltimore, MD. Long gone now.

 

Local Cartage company, bottom of the barrel, but taught Me a lot, in a short time. I left ASAP, but afterwards they grew into a decent paying outfit. With all their faults, I’m grateful to this day, for they’re help. Local gig without experience is hard, but not impossible to find.

 

Drove for Jim Palmer Trucking for almost 2 years.

 

OTR Reefer for FFE Van for Transport America now local Fuel Distribution.

 

On the farm and ranch hauling potatoes, grain, hay, equipment, and cattle.

 

Food service dragging 48s around NYC. Thrown to the wolves

 

Gotta suck it up and go work for a mega. I started at SwiftyKnight for 1 and 1/2 years before moving on.

 

back when i started, there just wasn't any sort of jobs for newbies out of school. we all basically had to go long-haul (OTR today).

if however you "knew someone" that could get you into a local job, you were lucky.

it's a phrase called, "paying your dues", and it is quite common actually in just about ever trade, vacation out there.

get on the road, for about at least 6 months, winter is coming, you'll get winter driving time. maybe by spring time, you can try applying for local jobs.