Advice!!!!!!!!

Probably better to go with a company that provides refresher course. You don't need a full CDL school.

Here's some that might hire you with that long gap in driving:

FFE
Raider Express
Paschall Truck Lines
Super Service
Pride Transport
Western Express

FFE & Raider Express are based in Texas.
Millis Transfer would be excellent for the full CDL course. Their school is in Burleson, TX.

 

IMO, some or all of these companies are no favor to you and usually touted by Chinatown, like Western Express. Mega bottom feeders in my opinion. Believe it or no, the lack of OTR experience and the gap in your employment is more a barrier to OTR than local work because insurance carriers know the poverty pay, long hours, days and weeks away from home, isolation, bad food, all contribute to traffic violations, fatigue and stress, which lead to accidents, small and large.

Financially, you're a lot better off staying with local, home-every-night.

Why risk damaging your CDL hiring on with bad OTR companies??

So my question to you, are you a 'real' driver or just another opportunity for someone to tout some bad companies here???????

 

txbigdaddy hasn't driven in 2 yrs. Many big changes within the last two yrs. Give him some constructive advice; that's what he's looking for. He couldn't care less about what anyone thinks of me; so that's not an issue with him. He wants to get back on the road, so what is the best step for him to take next without wasting time floundering around?

 

Here's another idea you can consider; Schneider Bulk sometimes hires drivers right out of refresher courses. You will need tanker/hazmat endorsements and pass a heart rate test during tanker orientation. Driving for this division of Schneider, you can make $60K+ with the potential for much more once gaining a year or two tanker/hazmat experience and switching to other companies such as Trimac Transportation. Even so, $60K+ is good pay if you remained with Schneider Bulk.

If you reenter the trucking work force using proper planning, you won't regret the decision because you will make real good money and have full benefits package.

 

Before you start bantering your list of bottom feeders, look at his question. Has never been 'on the road'. Has driven all local, home every night. There are, literally, hundreds of thousands of trucking companies in the US and you repeatedly espouse your list of bottom feeder, 100% turnover OTR.

Should this guy go OTR?? I think not without more information from the OP. Is there some reason he can't find another local job with 12 years experience? I think not. The gap is not that important for local work, which probably he should look for and avoid 100% turnover OTR.

Let's hear more from txbigdaddy.

 

There's probably a Mom-and-Pop outfit right near him with 20 trucks, intrastate, home every night that would be happy to work with a driver with 12 years experience to fill a seat. And the only reason they have a truck available is that Charlie, who had been with them for 22 years, just died of old age.

(My company has an 81-year-old who still drives and does quite well, another's 78-years or so.

And all the others long-time drivers. No turnover.

Why? Paid well. Home every night. Out of our 20-truck yard, I'm the only one who goes far enough out to lay over. Every one else, home daily. Are there other companies like this? Yes. Low or no turnover.)

 

And im right. You posting 1820 times tells me that you are the guy who just doesnt shut up. Rest my case.

 

You won't find me at truck stops. 450-mile run to Prairie du Chien 2x week, enough fuel to still have half tanks after each turn. Fuel next door to our yard at the end of each trip.

He has 12 years experience local, home every night and that's what he should look for and stick with. Tell me one good reason he should move to a 100% turnover carrier??

 

Guys Victor is making sense. The guy has 12 years experience. He should be able to find a local job. That 2 year gap doesn't matter.