Does Class B Passenger bus experience help me towards my goal of Class B straight/dump truck?

snicrep · Sep 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM

Cyb3rst0rm said: ↑

So I got fed up with working for Schneider after they asked me to do a number of sketchy things, kept getting me home late, giving me worse and worse loads (despite me being on time and generally not causing problems).

My plan with a CDL was never really to do tractor-trailer combination work, but to drive a dump truck or similar (there are a ton of quarries and coal mines and stuff near me) but for some reason it seems like Class B local work legit requires more experience than Class A. Most Class A jobs are asking for 6 months to a year minimum, Class B are all telling me 2 years experience. Several of them have told me its an insurance requirement.

As of right now I've secured a job offer from a local public transit. Pay is acceptable, but my question is will class B experience driving a bus count for insurance/experience purposes towards my goals here? Like should I stay with this company for a few years or keep looking for something more strictly in the trucking industry vs just the CDL industry.
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snicrep · Sep 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM

snicrep said: ↑

Your back
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I mean, you are back. Not your anatomical back. I look at physical labor as getting paid to get exercise.

Cyb3rst0rm · Sep 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM

OldeSkool said: ↑

You need to get a job hauling wood chips from the sawmill to paper mills. I did that for years. It’s local work without much manual labor. You’re basically left alone as long as you do your job. It’s class A tractor trailer work.
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There actually is a papermill about 2 hours south of me, but I'm not sure if there is that much logging around here. I am dead center in the middle of the Shawnee National Forest, and as you might expect logging is fairly restricted here. Nevertheless I'll look into this line of work as a possibility.

tscottme · Sep 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM

LTL is a good option but they usually screen out drivers with bad attitudes and a problem past. They ARE NOT looking for a driver that wants to lecture their 50-100 year old company about how to do things and what is fair. If you want to do that, start your own company and pay the bills to do it that way.

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