Frustrated experienced driver

I would suggest finding a smaller local or regional outfit...often they pay better, treat you better, and are more sane with hiring practises than the mega-carriers. Also, sometimes larger carriers have smaller dedicated divisions that aren't really well advertised (I work for one of these, and the only similarity is the DOT number on the truck, and the governed speed).

 

Man this is so funny. I thought I was the only 1 that went through this. Finally got back into driving in 2000. Got to go to a local college that had tractor trailer training for free cause I was a single parent. Only did 3 weeks of the 6 week course because the instructor had a couple of days open at the MVA for student license test. He told me go ahead and take test. I passed and got a job driving regional for 6 months. Then found a local job and drove for them 10 years. But when I tried to get a over the road job, everybody said I didn't have any experience. Even the companies that were ringing my phone off the hook my first 2 years of driving. Finally last year Schneider hired me.

 

I was gonna suggest a local driving job as well.

 

As I understand it, the insurance companies don't tell a company who they can and can't hire based on experience. The insurance companies tell the company what their new premium will be if they hire an "inexperienced driver" and put them in a truck. Companies aren't willing to incur a 50% PER TRUCK increase in premium just to hire on an "inexperienced driver". So when they tell you that it's the insurance company telling them they can't hire you, they're only telling half the truth.

 

I did not realize your driving currently, I would look around. I would not go back to school either, local is ten times more difficult than otr.

 

Not 38 days, or 39...but 37? That's the strangest number I've heard of, uh.....bar none.