OTR not for me. How Do I get into LTL, Linehaul, FedEx, etc?

Start applying at the terminal within 75 miles of your home. Never know if safety will bend the 1 year experience rule. Go slow at your current employer, OTR, don't make any mistakes. At worst finish your one year at current employer knowing you'll be getting a much better position at the end of one year.

 

Where is your location; probably get some job leads on this forum.

 

sventvkg where abouts do you reside?

 

Never know unless you try. A few drivers on this forum went to trucking job fairs and Estes hired them right out of cdl school. Evidently, Estes has some flexibility, but don't advertise it.

 

I laughed at this post a bit, but everything said is one hundred percent true. Many folks look at trucking and have this glorified image of it in there head. They don't realize the lifestyle change in it. I'll add, in USA, the probability of making high dollar and working 5 days a week isn't high regardless of industry. If you want more, you have have to give up something. It's the way it is. My wife told me about her cousin who just started driving. He recently quit. His company sent him up to Washington and he went up the mountains and it was a little snow. He talked about he almost slid off a cliff. After he delivered, he got a load to his next dropoff and his reload was going to send back to Washington. He tried to refuse but the company told him that he could find somewhere else to work if he refused. He said, "My life ain't worth one load." It sounded stupid to me because the snowfall wasn't that big of a deal to where it would have killed him. Now he is looking for a different company with barely 3 months in. He thinks he will find a company that doesn't have to deal with bad weather. Point being, it's the nature of the beast. There will be wait times and down times. OP, you gotta try to stick it out 1 year to open up your options.