Dump Truck instead of an 18-wheeler.

Dump trucks from my day are small family operations with like 4 people as ours were. It's not exactly great for "Training" because a dump does not behave quite like a tractor trailer. You will get trained if that is what you want. Just always remember.. when that road is wet, she is gonna slide if you brake to hard empty.

I cooked my DAC too hot for OTR, small time paving and stone in a local family Dump work for a while saved me.

 

Dump jobs usually don't advertise. Best to look at yellowpages.com and Google. Plenty of them around and some do hire new cdl grads.
Try APAC which is paving outfit. Some want 2 yrs. experience but often hire new grads as trainees.

 

Look in the phone book for people who do paving etc. They are not as China town said doing advertising you might have gotten accustomed to.

Be prepared to leave home prior to sunrise and stay out in the thing until you cannot see anymore.

Whatever the boss pays you each week, PUT a percentage AWAY, come fall and winter you will be sent to unemployment to get half pay or less until next spring with a focus on staying fit and strong ready to work again when the phone rings.

 

Some paving companies such as APAC work 24/7 if doing interstate highway paving.

 

Yea that too Neighbor, Im not that far from you over yonder.