Am I going about this the wrong way.

I would like to go out driving again and need to re get my CDL (####### let it lapse not thinking I was ever gonna need it again). I was thinking about looking for a dock job that could transfer into a driving job. That's the way I did it at UPS and I didn't know if other companies did anything similar. That would buy me a lil time to go find a truck to test in and let me see the company from the inside for a while before I sign on to drive. I was thinking otr at first and going with a mega just so I could see it at it's so called worst but now I'm thinking that's probably not the best way to go about it. I could probably tag on with one of the 7 million dump truckers around here on a permit and test on their trucks because they are hurting for drivers. Can't you take a class b truck with a over 10k trailer for a class a test? It's been a million years since I have done this so I don't remember. I'm thinking I just wanna tear around locally,maybe a line haul. I have some irons in the fire and have a few offers at trucking companies as a wrench but I don't think those jobs would be likely to ever transfer to driver. Is there any reality to what I'm thinking? Been almost 20 years since I had to really look for a job in the right situation, one thing I have going for me is I don't need a ton of money so starting out eating crap just to get re established won't kill me.

 

Awesome, thanks. I would love to try otr, I have always wanted to but I'm afraid if I don't like it I'll just stick with it and be miserable. I'm 38 and have worked at the last company for 17 years.....I don't like switching jobs lol.

 

I just checked out core mark and they don't have any of those jobs listed in Tampa and no way to leave info for a recruiter, I'll call em tomorrow and see if I can get some info.

 

The whole trainer thing would drive me up a ####ing wall. I drove around Philadelphia with a 53' so I already know how to handle a truck pretty well so I think having someone that I honestly probably have more experience than telling me how do things wouldn't work. I have thought about buying a truck because I could realistically buy an older truck and still do better with the maintenance because I have a shop to work on it in and all the tools and know how. That doesn't help me with tows but I am more than capable of doing everything myself including a in frame if the truck were to need one. My fear with that is I honestly don't know how the system works, I was a company driver hauling company freight within the company...very sheltered. I'm man enough to say I could very well fail due to a lack of knowledge. I have thought about hot shotting because I do have the F750 I use to haul the race cars with. It's got air brakes so I could just up the tag over 26k and boom there's a truck. The problem with that is every ####### with a 3500 Dodge thinks he's a hot shotter and that's the flavor of the month around here so I imagine rates are terrible. My truck has a 6ac tuned to 425hp with a 3.42 rear in 22.5s so it's not the most fuel efficient thing ever.

 

Budweiser distributor will hire on a permit. Imma call em tomorrow, I think I could handle a beer truck. I drove a package car for 15 years at UPS so I'm used to fingerprinting everything already.