Need a team partner or trainer, avoiding back to school

It has been this way for at least 18 years that I know of.
If you take too much time before you start driving, or even if you drive for 20 years then take 3 years off. At that point you will be considered to have 0 experience.
That is how it is.
Some small company's will take you without this or without need for a refresher, but not allot.
Go to a company that offers refresher courses. They usually cost about half of what there school will cost. If you can still drive well you will not be there for more than a week. Then you will go with a trainer for a period of time.
Even if you had been in class A trucks for the past 5 years hauling local you would probably have to do this. Because they only look at Over the road experience at the larger company's.
And at least refreshers at CDL mills will not need you to pay up front, but out of your weekly pay.

You may get lucky and find a small company that has a really nice insurance company that will take you without experience, but there are not many.
I have also seen quite a few drivers that went to schools then did not go OTR, that came to company's several years later and could not drive a lick.
Several of them were worse than the normal trainee.

 

Driver, those are 2 bad contacts. The lesser of the 2 evils would be stevens.

 

Hey cooper, look for my thread about looking for work. I list many of the companies that I contacted. I am in a similar position. Maybe contact the ones that I was not in the hiring area for, maybe you are. That list might help you save some time.

Here is a link to that thread. http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...s/91188-getting-desperate-now-any-job-az.html

 

Hey jcooperjazz their is a company in Fries,VA called Hill's trucking. They pull hoppers and end dumps and run long nose Int Eagles. Don't know if it will do you any good but you might give it a shot. Good Luck

 

The reason companies want people to go back to driving school after three years out is because of the insurances companies. The short of it is that to the insurances companies completing an "accredited" driving cores is equal to three months of driving exp. Which boosts you above zero and makes you hireable. Stupid I know but what can you do I had the same problem myself two years ago after 3.5 years out.

I recall a conversation I had with a rude recruiter for KLLM where she informed me that I was "wasting her time has I was not an experienced driver" because of the three years out after six years of flatbeding and "that a student fresh out of school had more experiences then I". At which point I cut her off with Show me one of your raw recruits that had taken a 5K load over Donner, at night, in a snow storm has I already had and I would kiss her..... And then I hung up on her. The whole deal made me mad enough to look into what was going on and that when I found out about the schools being the same has three months exp. It's all bull IMO just the wrong people (insurance companies) being allowed to stick their grubby little noses into places that they don't belong. I could see them reducing your exp time if your out three years say by half. But to consider you to have none is just bull some things you just don't forget and a lot of habits are already built it like making turns and backing up.

 

jcooper, try a company out of swannanoa nc called east/west trucking.

 

Exactly how does an Insurance companies nose not belong in ensuring the drivers they insure have some sort of experience? Insurance companies arent in the business to make payouts any more than you're in the business to deliver freight for free or trucking companies are in the business to make higher insurance payments than they have to.

Like it or not the statistics show that experienced drivers, of anything, who haven't driven for a while are more likely to have an accident soon after starting again than even an inexperienced driver.