Lower Trucking Age Requirement question?

Does anyone know if this new bill they're coming out with to allow 18 years old to drive interstate, will companies change their driving age? I'm 17 and looking forward to being able to go OTR once I get out of high school, I've been driving for 3 years and very cautious of my surroundings and a lot mature than your average teen , so don't get on here saying negative stuff about an 18 year old behind the wheel of an big rig!

 

Yeah well everyone always talks about its hard for 18-20 to get hired on because of "insurance costs", so I have to find an company that'll hire local at an young age hopefully. I'm going to call everywhere!

 

Well, they can already drive on the interstate within their state but can't go across an border of it, so that makes no sense as to the fact that they just made that law to shut people up about it because there's a lot of bad driver in this age group, but there's also great teen drivers. All it takes is for an company to point out the bad from the good. There's bad drivers in every age group though, I've seen some ridiculous stuff from older people that should NOT be driving, but hey that's how all of us teens are judged as an whole.

 

Yeah I've been looking into it to, I think they're trying to get all states to participate before they can move forward with it.