How / Where to get experience?

Try FERUS, TRICAN, SANJEL etc.

 

Try PTI Camp Services out of Edmonton. They pay $28.00 an hour to drive the grocery truck into camps and as they are quad cabs, sometimes you'll also bring employees along to switch out at camp and bring the others back to Fort St. John, FT.. Nelson, Edmonton, Grande Prairie etc.


http://www.aier.org/research/worksheets-and-tools/cost-of-living-calculator

http://www.aier.org/research/worksheets-and-tools/cost-of-living-calculator

 

I have 7 years of commerical driving experience driving for a courier, do that count as experience for companies that are hiring for ppl driving tractor trailer? By courier experience I mean bobtailing and driving trucks that a normal G license can drive.

 

Bitter, are we?

 

I applied at as many different trucking companies as I could and I just got ######## lucky and impressed the right boss with the right attitude and eagerness to learn. He gave me a chance and was very lenient with me and teaching me things.

Like others have said, try some warehouses or something where you might drive one day and be in the warehouse the next..

 

"I got ######## lucky and impressed the right boss with the right attitude and eagerness to learn. He gave me a chance......"

You Sir nailed it!! Describes how and why I landed my first professional trucking job.

Thanks for posting this.

 

Here's what's wrong.

Your young, with no experience. You don't have a leg to stand on, demanding better than $15hr. Get over yourself.
Your not worth more than that to most trucking companies. You haven't paid "your dues", so to speek.

Here's how to solve it.

As has already been suggested, get a job soemwhere, and get off your lazy a z z, and start working. Prove to your boss that your worth the money they pay you.

 

need to be "insurable", why it is so hard to start out. It can be done.