Old Driver having to start over need help

4 years off might cause you some problems. Even more so, if you did not keep your CDL renewed. Been there done that.

While you can rent a truck for your driving test, many of the "big" companies are asking for a peek at your "School" papers.

You may get around the "school" part, if you can provide unequiviqual proof of prior experience.

 

There is another poster on here that went that route and keeps coming up with crappy gigs because no decent company will hire him. Without a school you are very limited. Times have changed.

 

Best bet is to find a small company that pays good and talk to them. You have a better chance with a clean record. Big companies have their noses too high in the air. Some of them talk drivers school, etc, and for someone who has logged in over a million miles, that is ridiculous.

That is also, government and insurance control where there is no common sense; just black and white. Sad when government makes things so tough, yet there must be some kind of control to keep those off the road that should not be there. (That is record keeping/Driver's license-Driver's Record/Insurance Records, etc) Should not be a closed door for an experienced driver.

I am sure I would have the same problem if I were to start over again.

Small companies - Small farming communities - Harvest time. You should have no problem. If so, I would find another state to live in.

 

I would suggest you go to the unemployment office and see if
someone will pay for you to go to school. Sometimes they have
a weekend truck driveing school so you can keep working through the
week while you go through it. I would be easy for you most likely.
My state paid my truck driveing school completely back in 99,
they even bought the book and gave me a pen. It was Friday evening
Sat. and Sun. The Log Regs have changed over the years and they
will get you up to speed and teach you anything you may have forgot
also.

 

This probably won't help you, but there is a guy in Chico that rents a truck. A driver from US Foodservice went through him to get his CDL not very long ago. I have no idea what the guy's name is, but perhaps if you nose around Chico you might find him?

 

Just a wild idea but, you might try to check the post-it boards in local truck stops and might find luck.