Does hauling well cuttings count as OTR experience?

OTR is generally over multi states and out over several nights at a time. What they are considering is your ability to be away from home, plan your trips, find your shippers and receivers and be generally self sufficient.
From what you describe, I doubt it will count as OTR, but why does that matter? You will be driving. If you ever decide to go OTR, it will depend on your experience and talent as to whether you get the job or not.
So if you pull a 48' flatbed or end dump for two years all over south Texas, you will be experienced in driving, backing and logging.
that's what counts.
They may require you to test out with them, but I think you're confusing the issue of NOT driving vs driving locally.
Most OTR companies will consider your driving locally or regionally as experienced so long as you've been driving a tractor/trailer and can prove it.

 

most companys consider 5 or more states OTR.




American Trucker

 

5 or more states is OTR? I can hit 5-7 states and be back in my bed at night, lol.

 

i dont get where these companies are coming from my fathers good freind spent around 20 years as an O/O pulling coils throughout the rustbelt, took a little time off to try something different ( didnt work out) got in a bind and needed to get back to trucking and get some money coming in due to some family problems he thought hed go with one of these big freight companies just to get back to work they told him that 20 years pulling a 40' trailer local / regional didnt count as OTR...wanted to start him same as a rookie and this hand had loads of experience....I have never pulled a 53' van I pull a 42' tanker but have pulled a few 48's ...If a guy can drive a 170'' daycab and a 29' bucket he can drive a 280'' largecar and a 53' trailer...all you needs common sense...we have hired a few of those supertruckers that brag about them big trucks and trailers we run 187'' daycabs and 42' trailers...they talk about how this is gonna be a piece of cake driving a little truck but when you take them to nursing home in a tight little town and tell they gotta do a double blindside back into an alley they dont seem to be the supertrucker they said they were...