Get most jobs after a year experience?

Clean time behind the wheel will garner value to the next company of similar type with higher standards. Otr will not make you more valuable to a local company other than you have proven that you won't hit stuff. That being said knock on enough doors and at least one will open.

 

Anywhere from 3 mos. to 24 mos. experience, more and more opportunities become available.
As far as companies closing and drivers losing jobs; all those drivers can have a new driving job within 24 - 48 hours.
Companies close because they're not competitive. Freight still has to be moved and if they don't move it because they close the doors, other companies are right there and glad to have the business.

 

More experience/ more doors open up. Long as your not hitting stuff and tearing up the truck. Megas will take just about anything with a pulse . Good companies want to see experience. key word is want. With that said every company is different if you’re close enough to walk in to one of their yards you may just walk out with a job. Some companies won’t cause of insurance. (It goes down with experience) It’s best to ask and find out. I got one year exp and the company I just got hired onto asks for 3 years +1 hauling fuel but they took me on. So as long as you have the cdl options are endless

 

Its absolutely true, also try not to job hop that first year. Keeping that CDL clean, as well as having all endorsements and a clean background will go along way.
As you move into more specialized hauling that just adds value to your resume, to make you really stand out from the thousands of new drivers that come into this industry every year.
Don't worry about those drivers who lost their jobs, it's a drop in the bucket when you look at the grand scale of things.

 

It’s definitely hard. I got my license in December and it was a pain finding a local job. Luckily the one company I applied to, I knew a few guys and they put a good word in for me and they are hiring me, otherwise I’d be screwed. It’s a local milk delivery job to stores. Luckily it’s exactly where I’ve wanted to work for a long time.

 

And just because I knew people did not mean I didn’t have to go through all the hoops. I still had to interview and waited two weeks to find out if I got the job so it was definitely no guarantee.

 

And I did put a bunch of other apps in to local places and got no bites. Not saying it will be that way for you but just something to think about.

 

Please don't. Just stop while you are ahead. Dont get into the one year mentality. Get 24 months experience. Toughen up a bit. And research your local oppertuinites. Make a good switch. Not just one that will get you home more.
Out here in the first two years it will literally change you. No joke

 

Some places will let you lease a truck and a flatbed trailer and give you all the cool toys and 1 day of training. No prior flat exp necessary

Go for it. I need more people to make fun of