I need help

I've been working for myself as a landscaping contractor for the past 3 years and decided to get my CDL and start a career in the driving industry. I'm single and have no kids, so OTR would not be a problem at all. I studied on my own and passed my written tests, then rented a truck in Tulsa, Oklahoma and passed my driving test yesterday morning. I have a class A cdl now with double/triple endorsement. However, I have no experience to put on an application. I have some felonies that were back in 2002 (almost 7 years old now). They are burglary II, concealing stolen property, and false declaration to a pawn broker. I was 19 at the time and am 26 now. What do I do and where do I go to get a job driving a semi? I've beat the doors down all day at every trucking outfit in my city. Everyone keeps turning me around because their insurance requires 2 years experience. Can someone please tell me what I need to do in order to get on somewhere? I live 90 miles from Oklahoma City and about the same distance from Tulsa. I will go wherever I need to go to get a job. Thanks.

 

Thanks! I'll keep trying? Could driving a semi as a farm hand without a CDL be considered experience, or would they see through that?

 

Ok. I landed a job at a local concrete plant this evening. They have 5 mixers and 3 semis. The semis pull 40' end dumps (sand and gravel loads). Right now they're mainly needing a mixer driver they said. However, the guy told me that since I have a class A there may be times when they have me doing sand runs in one of the semis and when the weather shuts them down I could get hours in by doing greasing trucks in the shop and stuff like that. $12 an hour is what they're starting me out at. Does this sound like a good thing? Here are my thoughts...I stay with them for 6 months or so, get some experience in the mixer, then maybe they'll put me in one of the semis full-time where that's all ill do. If they don't, then ill go out searching for a different job where I can get in a semi full-time. Will the concrete plant be a good reference/worthy enough experience? Or will other trucking companies not recognize it as experience because it's mixer experience, not semi experience?

 

Will do guys! Thanks for all the replies!