What does experienced driver mean?!

Some may say that at one year, you have experience. Some will say, 2 years, some 3, and some 5.

It sometimes depends on the company that you go to apply at, and at what amount of time(years) THEY say you have enough experience to meet their requirements.

With less than 1 year, you're still a newbie, in the learning phases. Each and every day, you will garner more experience. When you reach say 10 years, you still learn each and every day. No one will ever be so experienced, that he knows it all, because when someone says he knows it all, is when he needs to get out of trucking, as he becomes a danger.

SO you have a long ways to go yet, and it'll get here for you.

For what ever reason, and this confounds me, is that some trcuking companies "consider" trucking school as "some experience", and I simply do not know why, as many students do not get to drive each day, and certainly not for say a full 11 hours of driving. Most schools will probably give you 1 hour of drive time each day that they take you out, and that is only an average.

 

You have just enough experience to get you into trouble at some point and on some long lonesome west coast mountain grade and (eastern as well) that's just waiting to eat up your experience.
Stay where you are, get some good experience, Run west coast mountains if your company runs west. Learn to respect the road and the truck you drive, your skills (mental and driving) and the weather and those around you, You will get that experience before you know it.. Be safe and be patient out there.
Good Luck to you !!

 

Just get 6 months experience and you can come work for us,0.50CPM starting pay,$850 weekly guarantee and 2012 or newer trucks with APU's.

 

Exactly what company would that be? What's the city/state headquarters?

 

So your a recruiter on your days off.....?

 

McLeod Express out of Decatur IL.

 

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...ere/97788-mcleod-express-decatur-il-i-am.html

 

Hey, I've trucked for 35 years, and with all the new regulations and electronic BS, I feel like an inexperienced driver, and would probably be treated as such if I went back into it,,,,not bloody likely.

 

Uh, ok......

 

Oh,, that's the company that has the drivers monitored by inward facing cameras in their trucks? Yes, I remember.
As if that alone isn't a deterrent to get quality drivers, I'm not sure the 'attitude' of the company/dispatchers toward the drivers is even close to acceptable.
That is,, unless a potential driver candidate has a thing for slavery mentality... and being just a disrespected 'number'.

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...-deal-driver-facing-camera-2.html#post4493309

Sounds like your company is STILL having a hard time finding ppl to fill those seats, even at your claim of "$0.50 cpm" for 6 mo experience.