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As long as you can pass your DOT medical you can drive
Our accountants brother drove until he was 81(owner operator), but couldn't find a company to lease onto when the economy hit the dump and his company closed

Here is a (older) thread on the subject, still good
Do trucking companies discriminate against older drivers ...
Should older truck drivers be forced to retire?

 

Well for OTR a driver has to be 23-25 yrs. old to start. I suppose you can drive along as you can without endangering the public. I'm 60 & i drive a grain hopper. I don't know of any company that has a mandatory retirement age. I would ask first & see what they say.

 

As long as the driver can pass his DOT physical a company can't tell him he is too old. That would age discrimination. The only reason they don't hire before 23-25 is because of insurance reasons. Personaly I'm not even sure how they can get away with that, but then again our government takes advantage of younger guys. I could never understand how an 18 year old can drive a tank, shoot fully automatic weapons, loose a leg, get killed, etc, etc, but wait a minute young man, you can't drink a beer or buy a handgun until your 21.

 

I must of met him last week in Virginia. He doesn't live in Rhode Island does he?

 

just gotta say...

that is a BAD@SS Eagle!

 

You don't HAVE to be 23, there are quite a few companies that hire at 21, I myself will be starting OTR in September when I turn 21.

Companies that hire at 21:

KLLM
Watkins Shepard
MAY
Prime
Roehl
Stevens Transport
Central Refrigerated
Knight
Werner
Melton
GTI
Schneider
Millis (if you go threw there school) or you need 1yr OTR Experiance.
WSE


Theres more but those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.


American Trucker

 

It is a hard and fast rule in the industry that being dead while driving is a dismissable offence. Driving while brain dead is apparently still acceptable.

 

and all that and you cant drive a CMV interstate until your 21. whats up with that?

I remember seeing a few trucking jobs a few years ago, "minimum age 25, unless married, then 23"....what kind of ####e is that? How can anyone get away with that?

The company im with requires you to be 23. But they also require 1 year OTR, so....not that bad really. Hell, they even officially require you be under 365lb