Understanding cargo securement

yes thats what ive experienced. plus u get treated alot better to.

 

You'll do fine. Just take your time with both driving and securement.

Will you be driving primarily out west or all over the country?

 

what are is your local area?

 

He's not that brave, confident, and efficient enough to do that yet. He's got his plate full doing what he needs to do, although, he should learn to take pictures of loads to cover his butt, in case of claims, but for now, we need to give him break in time.

 

See, this is interesting, because if not for this "pandemic shortage", it would be the other way around. Companies would want you old enough to drive OTR and get experience so you're not tearing up their equipment. I agree with the way you're doing it now, don't get me wrong, that's how I started, other than military driving, I started locally doing everything that I could since all we needed back then was the Chauffer's License. No restrictions. That's where I got all my experience with van, tankers, dumps, etc, so when they did come out with the CDL's I made sure to get my endorsements 'Grandfathered' in. Back then, when it came out, all you had to do was provide the work history showing you drove the equipment and take the tests. Now, they want to make you test out on the equipment by driving it under test conditions after you pass the written test.

There is a benefit to driving locally as far as I'm concerned, and that's learning to drive in congested traffic conditions. If you can handle that, OTR becomes more of a planning/execution stay awake and attentive exercise.

 

Nice I ran western Montana to east Washington' the last 2 years . Went down to SLC and Brigham city every once in a blue moon. Nice country up there! You just gonna run Utah or u gonna go further north?