Getting the required experience

I'll offer this story and this is the only time it happened to me and my big fat CDL A license...

It was TBH Concrete in Westminster Maryland downtown yard where there is also a family run petroleum gasoline outfit that fed off Exxon in Baltimore bringing back gasoline for thier own family owned Pumps. Now that we established exactly where TBH Concrete yard was in that town.. here is what happened to me.

Interviewed for a class B Trucking Ready Mix one day with one of their top executives or owner of company.

A hour into the interview I was looking outside the east and south office windows at a yard full of lowboy trailers and daycabs for hauling equiptment because TBH is a construction company as well as Concrete. I asked the man about using my CDL A to run those low boys now and then perhaps?

No.

Me... Why not?

Just no. You are interviewing for Class B. Your A is over qualified.

Me.... What? overqualified? That's ######## *Points out window at both class A and B trucks out there, all of which require air brakes etc.

No.

After a few more minutes of careful diplomacy a golden ticket landed into my lap when the interviewer blurted that I was deaf and he did not want deaf people ####ing up the radio calls on the job each day and I was still over qualified with the CDL A license.

I talked to a ADA lawyer that day, I use hearing aids like people wear glasses and was preparing for battle with TBH to sink a fork into them.

Considering the fact that same interviewer was to run the batch plant south of town each day watching ME unload a Hahn Bulk Tanker into HIS Silo from Circle Blue Cement at the ship port in Baltimore with a 18 wheeler tanker truck for almost 4 months several times a week.

#### Yankees.

Later in Arkansas, my adopted home, I was given more than enough time on the road with a old autocar mixer to the newer R model Mixers concrete plus bulk tanker too from either Hope or Pine Bluff with weights exceeding 100K several times a day.

God I miss that auto car. Plus the CAT 936 front end loader as well. That wheeled loader was my very favorite of all my life. If I can get a hold of a similar one now, I'll get to it. Never mind the medicines I take each day. It's not work at all playing rock and sand feeding a plant.