6 Mo Class A Driver Looking For Suggestions

Are you in Chicago?
How about courier service vans or cargo vans?

 

I'd deal with the patience. It'll all come in to place eventually.

I didn't like the demands either. And I didn't have the tools you all have today for finding local work when I started.

Are there any requirements for garbage trucks? Like how long driving.

6 months isn't enough time. But before you'll know it. You will have had your cdl long enough and getting any job won't be a problem.

 

Only thing i could suggest is being a scrap metal roll off driver.

Your preference list sticks you in a very difficult spot for any form of suggestion.

Add in dump trucks, cement mixers.

 

You are painting yourself into a corner.

Are you SURE you want to push a big eco City bus over the same tired blocks ranging from thuggies down to elderly who need a hand at everything from coin counting to the correct street corner passed 4 stops ago.

You go to the city garage where they keep the buses and apply there. Bring some nausea medicine until you become accustomed to the front end flexing and suspension values. You will sometimes be thinking you are sitting on the end of a diving board with your axle way back there.

I don't think you have been in the right trucking work long enough to like anything. You should continue to explore by doing. It will take a little while.

 

It sounds like you picked the wrong field entirely, and now you're severely limiting your options by choice. If you want a driving job, class A or otherwise, there is work involved.

If you don't have the patience for driving a truck, I question whether you'll have the patience to be a bus driver. It's not exactly easy, either. You'll be responsible for every life in that bus, and you'll be constrained on how to deal with unruly, loud kids.

I was going to say maybe UPS or FedEx, but you said no delivery jobs. The only other thing I can think of is courier, but it doesn't pay well.

One of the primary requirements when you hold a CDL is flexibility. You'll need to decide if you are willing to be flexible in an industry that never stops. It's a 24 hour a day, 365 days a year responsibility that we all share in, and absolutely necessary to the sustainability of the economy.

 

Well said.

 

I should ask one more important question.

"What makes the OP HAPPY!?"

Once we know how to be happy and not grouchy over the apparent gravel filled pathway of trucking then maybe we find the right niche.

 

I would definitely consider driving a city bus. It sounds bad but a friend of mine has done it for 17 years in San Antonio and absolutely loves it. He says he can get all the overtime he wants and is paid overtime after 8hrs a day and 40hrs a week with double pay on holidays not to mention a ridiculous pension retirement plan and medical plans. Plus the hourly rate competes with top pay from UPS.

 

OP when you start out your options are limited. OTR with a mega is the easiest way to get your foot in the door. As you gain more experience doors will open for better opportunities. I’ll have some myself before long.