Help!! Will anyone hire me?

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  1. Guest11

    Guest11 Bobtail Member

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    On my first delivery I forgot to slide my tandems forward and my trailer scraped the corner of another trailer. I didn't have to get towed and the other trailer was fine but someone had to come out and fix my trailer. Than about 4months after that I was turning into shipper and receiver and ran over a boulder barrier and had to have the company's road assist fix the brake line on the trailer. Since than I haven't had anything happen I've been driving for about a year and two months. I'm ready to go home and find a local job I don't want to do OTR any more but I'm worried that no one will hire me because of those two things.
     
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  3. EverywhereMan

    EverywhereMan Medium Load Member

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    I know this might sound like a wild idea, but start sending some applications to prospective employers and find out yourself.
     
  4. CleverNDGuy

    CleverNDGuy Light Load Member

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    Imo you may want to stay otr. It's even more risk on a local job and your probably not ready yet. Think about it because its a lot more skill involved running local. And if your not skilled enough you very well may end your career before it even begins.
     
  5. Chinatown

    Chinatown Road Train Member

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    You're hirable, but the better paying companies probably won't hire you until those wrecks are 2 or 3 years behind you.
    Where is your location?
     
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  6. Justrucking2

    Justrucking2 Road Train Member

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    You will get hired, outfits are screaming for drivers depending on where you are at.
     
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  7. Guest11

    Guest11 Bobtail Member

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    SF Bay Area
     
  8. Moosetek13

    Moosetek13 Road Train Member

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    What you want does not matter as much as what other companies want.
    I would imagine that they want experienced drivers with few accidents/incidents. Local driving is much more intense than OTR, and requires more experience.


    And I'm wondering how you can turn into a shipper and receiver at the same time? Was it the same rock at both?
     
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  9. IluvCATS

    IluvCATS Road Train Member

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    You can drive cable cars.
     
  10. aussiejosh

    aussiejosh Road Train Member

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    I'm guessing all the incidents occurred when you were relatively new and once you started really learning out in the real world you started to improve and stopped making the same errors, hopefully any future prospective employers will see things the way i do however you won't know until you apply for another job.
     
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  11. Chinatown

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    You might be ok since no tickets are involved, which means you have a clean MVR. The company you're with might hit your DAC report though, but still there's local companies that will hire you. Put in lots of applications and something will work out. You'd be surprised sometimes which companies will accept you.
    Airgas - home every night.
    Sysco
    Saia
    R&L Carriers
    New World Van Lines in San Francisco
    XPO Logistics - home daily
    Reddaway
    Praxair
    Estes West - Division of Estes
    JB Truck Staffing - places you with varioius companies.
    Xpress Global Systems - Division of US Express. Recent CDL Grads Encouraged to Apply!
    Dependable Highway Express - pulling containers out of Oakland. Local work.
    Trillium Driver Solutions - temp service.
    World Oil Environmental Services
    Gate Gourmet - $22.48 hr. Delivering food carts to passenger planes at San Francisco International Airport.

    Continental Carbonic Products : Martinez,CA www.continentalcarbonic.com.
    • CDL Class A license – fully current – current DOT long form physical and medical card
    1 year experience with certification of accredited driving training.
    Class A Local Delivery Driver
    Starting pay is $25 per hour with a $2 per hour monthly safety bonus.
    * Must Be Willing to Obtain TWIC Card*

    • Dedicated regular customer base
    • Typical early morning start time (0300 to 1130)
    • Multipe Stops
    • Potential Layovers
     
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