Looking for jobs no experience

Hey truckers,

I live in Austin,TX and have had my class A CDL for a couple of years now. At the moment I work for a company doing water utility work and drive a dump truck hauling heavy equipment (excavators, bobcats, backhoes, water piping) on anywhere from 25 to 35 foot trailers. I want to branch out and get into the trucking world and would love if any experienced truckers or anyone around my area could recommended any local or starter companies to start with. I’m willing to do OTR for a year or so but eventually think I would like a more local job. Driving record is perfect and no criminal record. I was looking into TMC or Maverick as I am definitely a more hands on type of person and already haul heavy equipment locally. Most local jobs in my area require atleast 1 year experience or to work for $15 a hour as a dockhand before they will train you for local routes.

I’m also curious if I go flatbed will that limit me to only flatbed work or do companies really just care about you having experience driving trucks in general?

Forgot to add I only have tanker endorsement at the moment and no restrictions. Do not do drugs and can 100% pass a test. I’m also not opposed to dry van or reefer work.

Any information is greatly appreciated! Thanks

 

Thank you sir for the quick response and I appreciate the information! I actually am current military right now, national guard. So I’m used to that lifestyle. Have about a year left.

 

Thank you sir for the advice/information. I have thought about food jobs aswell as I have always had manual labor jobs so I’m not afraid to bust my ###. I am however thinking down the road if making food services a career how badly my body will hurt me when I’m 50 haha. I’m 29 at the moment.

 

Will do, thank you sir.

 

I was not sure if that would count as I don’t have experience hauling 53ft trailers.