How do class B drivers get their experience?

I'm seeing more and more ads companies looking for class B drivers and they're willing to help the right person get their B license and class A.You'll need to look at the help or drivers wanted in your area.There's school bus drivers,dump trk drivers,schwan's,pepsi here they're all willing to help with obtaining a cdl.

 

Know quite a few companies that hire you, then give you 90 days to get your class b using their equipment.

 

Where are you? What do you want to get out of driving? I.e. money, career, travel, excc...

 

I got my class B driving school buses shuttles at a ski resort in Colorado. 15.45/hour plus free skiing, wasn't a bad gig. I had no experience and they hired and trained me for my class b.

 

Class A gives you options, Class B doesn't. Plenty of people drive Class A local right out of school, I'm one of them. Even at my first job which I left to make more money I made more than many who go OTR and give up their life for a truck. Don't let the myth that you MUST go OTR discourage you, because that's all it is, a myth.

 

At the school I went to, I believe the class b course was same as the class a. Maybe you should just get your class a and go get a class b job. Then you would have more options should the need arise.

Remember, you're not required by law to go otr.

 

I got my Class B CDL Driving a school bus, I love driving but it's not a full time job and with lots of bills to pay making 17.50 and only getting 20 hrs. a week is not going to support a family of 5. I would love to do Class A right now but can't afford it, so I know the troubles of feeling stuck.. I would drivanything with a class b requirement but every interviewer I've tried with says they don't consider that experience! pffft I would like them drive kids around for a living and not say I don't have experience..lol

 

If you want to strictly make money drive a ready mix truck. After I got my class A if did but you only need a B. I left because I was logging in way too many hours. I get to see my family more with my TL company now than I did in the ready mix business. Though this is the slower time of the year coming up.

 

Drive a way uses class B drivers. As a class B driver you will drive anything from a car to a large Crane OTR in the drive a way business. When I did drive a way I specialized in Cranes I moved a lot of them from Pennsylvania to the west coast. Cranes so large I was driving with permits in almost every state I passed through. There are also a lot of Hotshot trucks driven OTR as well. The only problem with driving class B OTR is you get no experience credit if you decide to get that class A.