Local tanker to OTR flatbed

My wife and I have been driving tanker local for a few years now. Im ex army and diesel mechanic, she is a ex CDL instructor for a CDL course at a local college. We both left our tank jobs and went to a towing company for a few months. I ran heavy wrecker and flatbed and she ran flat, but it only lasted about 3 months due to not agreeing with managment, so we went back to the tanker outfit. Now we approaching the empty nesters lifestyle and want to go OTR, we have saved $20,000 to get our own truck and plan to lease to mercer ( IV read the entire mercer thread and it took 6 months to do so) but they won't hire us without a year of OTR .so IV talked to Melton maverick and TMC .Looking mainly towards maverick. Anyone know any better outfits in the southern Ohio area that may be interested in us?

 

Well I'm not sure if this is a sarcastic post or not but if it's not then.... Most megas will hire us with no issues assuming we do thier " training" as in ride with someone that probably has less experience overall driving then we do, but as far as being O/O we have no issues with IV rebuilt Cummins, maxxforce, and paccar engines from the ground up so no issues there as far as maintenance goes. It's just he OTR experience that's keeping us from getting straight into a better non training company. We both have impeccable credit and have loans approved through our local back for a truck with 5,000 down, overall loan for 75,000. We are just looking for a good OTR flatbed company that will hire a good team with just local and regional work.

 

I'll take a look at them. IV seen them mentioned before but will they hire a team with 5 years driving local? We have tanker hazmat doubles/ triples and our passports . Just no OTR

 

I'll do some digging and see what I come up with thanks for the help.