New Dude

I believe it say's 20 years. Don't be a suck### just because you got put in your place on the last thread. This is a totally different disagreement here.

 

Well, you make a lot of good points. I looked on ripoffreports about Drivers Solutions and it's a little scary. If, for whatever reason, you get sent home before you test, you still get stuck with the tuition. I know, that's what everyone was trying to tell me. It just took a while to sink in. Maybe I will just study the manual and rent a truck and try to get it on my own. I can already drive and double clutch and all, I just need practice backing up. Thanks for the advice and the realistic view of trucking. I still want to do it, though, somehow.

 

Oh, and Doglover, sorry your thread got hijacked.

 

There are plenty of companies that hire at 21. I have had my class A CDL since I turned 18 and will be going OTR in a few weeks when I turn 21!

Companies that hire at 21:

KLLM
Watkins Shepard
MAY
Prime
Roehl
Central Refrigerated
Knight
Werner
Melton
GTI
Schneider
Millis (if you go threw there school) or you need 1yr OTR Experiance.
WSE



American Trucker

 

shifting will be the same in the day or night because when you shift you should be looking at the road and not at the shifter

 

reasonably so.

 

"the manual transmission part is not problem, in fact, you will be easier to teach since you have no bad habits..........." - Rerun8963

So true, I had my license when I was 16, learned to drive a standard when I was 18, then I have worked for UPS driving a brown package car for almost 7 years after that... Pick up all kind of bad habit and driving the UPS truck, in a snow, at times I drift it and drive it like a rally car at times...

The double clutch in a tractor absolutely kill me and break me down in the first week of my training... Now I am double clutching my Honda Prelude... Wish me good luck next Tuesday, my supervisor will be testing me, if I pass I will have my license as a tractor driver and open a new page to my career!