Tell me about chem or water truck

Schneider hires new drivers, and they have a tanker division. Depending on what you want to do you may need to get some tanker experience and certainly some tractor trailer experience before hauling the good stuff, so focus first on getting the license and experience.

 

Uh oh. You just opened a can of worms.

My advice, learn to drive manual. Period. If you get a job that has automatics, you'll easily adjust. Much harder to go the other way. Don't limit yourself, only a fraction of trucks are automatic. Don't limit your opportunities to that fraction.

 

Couldn't agree with Lepton more. Learn on manual transmission, auto's are increasing in popularity.....but they're still a minority out there. I work for a chem hauling company and we have none. Chaoss is also correct....Schneider has an excellent training program for bulk hauling, though being a mega carrier they're not for everyone. But if you go through their training and give them a year or two, you'll be able to move to pretty much any chem hauling company out there. Some companies will hire you after a couple of years driving non-tanker and train you for bulk; but if you're just starting from square 1, you're better off learning bulk from the beginning.