Insight needed from experienced drivers.

The ideal start to a resume will contain a year of interstate OTR, all at one company, pulling something other than dryvan, involving exposure to winter driving conditions in an around the Pacific Northwest, including chaining and unchaining your tires at least twice.

Basically, if you're crossing Wyoming or Montana during winter, you're stacking up bonus points hand over fist. Even if you shut down for a week while a mountain pass is closed, ridiculous bonus points are still stacking up while you play videogames. And doing it all with something other than dryvan is the cherry on top.

 

Yeah, driving nice equipment makes OTR a good choice for some of us.
Personally, OTR is the only type trucking I truly like. Tried local one time and hated every minute of it. After the first day, knew I made a big mistake by leaving the road.

 

I have a yrc terminal 2 or so miles from me. I contacted yrc about their school just a few weeks ago and they told me they did not have anything available for Eastern NC at that time. I ended up signing up for school at my local CC . two days ago I see an ad on ZipRecruiter for my area for YRC paid CDL training..Talk about bad timing LOL

 

Are you already in school?
Do you want to run the roads? We call that ''trashin' around''.
Apply at YRC again when you get your cdl and all the endorsements.
For other opportunities visit drive4yrc.com

 

There’s experiences and then there’s experience.. you get experiences otr or regional.. for example truck won’t regen and you’re forced to pull over while the truck is in a derate and shuts off every 2 mins while you wait for a mechanic.. and your in the middle of a polar vortex.. or get to a customer that tell you they have overnight parking in order to get their product only to say figure it out after they recieved their stuff and you don’t have any hours.. vs the experience I have at my local company where I know every station and darn near every back road to get to em. The experiences were thrilling. The experience is priceless

 

No reason to be scared of tanker. I was a little concerned when I did LPG but learned that they are quite safe and it takes an awful lot to cause a problem.
Best of Luck