How they figure experience ?

True you got a good point there,I never did local been stuck doing OTR but i'm pretty happy with OTR but i'm considering local but only thing I see is local mostly hourly pay and you can make more locally but at lease your home on a daily basics.

 

OTR for the most part counts experience as OTR jobs within the last 3 years.

It has alot to do with insurance regulations, is the driver up to date on new DOT regulations, etc.

OTR driving is also considered driving 5 or more states. That's why on the applications, they ask what states you drove in. Always list about 7 of them if not more.

An old OTR driver might be able to drive, he just isn't current on everything and needs refreshing.

A local driver has no clue to all the rigamaroo of living on the road. A 10 year local driver is useless if he cries for his mommy after a week out.

 

Couldn't agree more!

trip planing, Is 4th grade geography.
Scaling a load, done that 100s of times driving local.

The one thing that might be rough is mountain driving If you never did it.

 

You think local ltl is hard....try OTR LTL, at w/s our runs had 10-25 stops that could all be in 1 city or span 2000 miles and at the end of the day you still have to find a place to park





American Trucker

 

American Trucker i Agree with ya 1000000000%....multi drops with LTL in different cities and then hauling azzzzzz in and out of cities...then finding a place to put it down and try to sleep and thats in good weather...try it in Snow or Ice...or any bad crappy weather...just adds to the fun times...lol

 

I've done that with a set of triples. I can tell you from what I've done pulling an 85' super tanker loaded with gasoline around town is much harder than any other job I've had. That includes oversize loads state to state. It's a shame when a driver has 30 years safe driving without an accident or incident and you tell him or her they're inexperience. But the pay is much much more and worth it. Never OTR again.