Help with my Class A road test

From my research Fed-EX and UPS requires you too have 2+ yrs of experience of a class A lic. Also Conway require experience as well.

Unless you have connections with someone in those companies. OTR is probably the only you can go.

You will have to do a bit of research in your area to find out if and what is needed.

Best of Luck,
Taino

 

There work out there just gotta know where to look.If you get your A licience,start off with companies that hire trainees like werner,swift,steven,etc.Your not going to get in with a local company like ups or con-way with out at lease 12 months of otr experience.Your going have to do otr once you get your A licience.

 

Yes and no,they required a min.of 1 year experience,conway have a otr fleet at last time I check,you only need 6 months experience but it may have change.

 

there are plenty of jobs out there for newbies. i just graduated trucking school and waiting for a retest for my CDL (road only got too nervous). try werner, tmc, us express, star, usa truck and search online for others.

 

I have a similiar background as yours, my construction union local allowed me to practice the maneuvers for the test in their parking lot with a semi and low boy first then when I was ready with a straight dump and dove tail trailer. I was able to use their dump and trailer for the practical part of the test at the DMV and got my B upgraded to an A. The shorter length and auto trans made the test less stressful. The local schools here wanted 4-6K and 2-3 months but it took me exactly a week and the training was free.

 

I've found that without going OTR as a newbie, you can't get a local job. Once you've had that local job for a while and are looking to get back out on the big road, no one will hire you because you dont have "recent" experience WTF? But that's here on the west coast, so I dunno.

 

If I lived on the east coast I'd look into Old Dominion, no sleepers, not full loads. No sleepers means home or motels as we don't put boards across the seat anymore. I saw 5 trucks deliver to Home Depot in the early am from different companies all with no sleepers in the span of 1 hour. good luck, I'm doing the same thing you are.

 

I'm from Boston and work in the construction end of trucking (dump trailer, lowbed, flatbed). You should try going with a smaller co (i.e. a guy who owns several dump trucks), rather then the big companies to start. In my experience, even if you don't have a ton of experience with combo vehicles, they'll take you for a road test and if you do good, they'll give you a shot.

I did this when I first got my license and as long as you can shift/back up and over all not beat the heck out of someones big money investment (i.e. dump trailer), you should be ok. A lot of the owner operators with a few trucks have really nice equipment, lots of chrome, 8" straight pipes, stuff like that.

The pay is usually pretty good, but you will almost certainly have no benefits.

 

forget about UPS, it literally takes 15+ years to get into semi driving most of the time over there

u can try UPS Freight formerly overnite.....they dont require experience, but u might have to start on the dock for a while....the drivers make $23 an hour right now