Not Enough Recent Experience - The Solution

What is so hard to understand that an O/O is just as much a company as the "super carriers" with 5000 trucks ??

I agree, but its all the same to insurance company.

Geeze....

For him to team up with an O/O is not any stretch to believe.
It happens pretty often outside the overcontrolled world of "big trucking".

I also agree, my brother is doing right now, but his experience was very thoroughly evaluated by the O/O insurance company, before he was allowed to come on board. They called everyone in the past ten years to make sure there were no big gaps in his employment, and I can tell you this for sure, regardless of how good of driver he was, if he had been been off the road for more then 5 years and no current experience he would have been going to a refresher......no way to bypass insurance company standards and thats the point. Every keeps thinking its just the employer that verifies experience......the insurance companies track it as well.

 

or you can find a company that went out of business and say you worked for them. no way they can check out if you did or didn't.

 

Unless they ask for a copy of your W-2.

 

It has to be verifiable! they could tell you to pull your wage income IRS w2 forms to verify trust me companies are not stupid lol.

 

Wrong again, all that companies insurance information, including your information (if you worked for that carrier) is tracked in an insurance data base. Plus when you were hired that compay filed information regarding your employment with the FMCSA, which all "for hire carriers" do. So even if they are gone out of business that data is all there under there old DOT number.

Anyway they are just tracking 10 years back.

 

Listen I'm not trying to down the op but I am just stating fact's

Look at here I have been out of trucking for 2 year's I am willing to go the route the op stated I looked around and to my finding I bumped into nothing.

If you could find a O/O willing to take a chance with me LMK I'm willing to take a loss to gain structure and experience. Now there is a company I been looking at that might take me in. Hopefully everything turns out gravy with that.

 

I was haulin glASS across I-10 in LA headed toward Houston in my company truck and just kinda fell in with the Owner and his Son.

All trucks ungoverned so we kinda stuck together for a while.

They passed me and I was courteous enough to tell them they "missed me".
We struck up a conversation.
Ended up on their company channel.

I got contact information, and 3 weeks later was driving for him.

Treated me like FAMILY for the next 2 years.
When I was at his house and doing truck maint. I slept in his guest room, ate at his table, watched his TV in evening with them.

 

I don't see what's so hard to believe about SS's post. He went out and found a position by thinking outside of the box a little bit. Gotta give him credit for that imo.

I have a question for you Southern Star. How long had you been out of the truck when you tried to get hired on to someone? I ask because it's looking I'll be doing the same. I just can't find a local job that I'm interested in doing. I left the road myself in Nov 2009.

Thanks.

 

Wrong again? When was I wrong the first time?!

 

theres things like a 1099 or w2 they will ask for to verify work