Why do some companies have a minimum age requirement?

21 is old enough to be an 88M. Get experience in many ways and keep busy until you're old enough to get hired.

 

It is my understanding that lots of People 30 and under voted for Bernie. Would you really want someone like that driving a semi?

 

Do you really want some of these 40,50 and 60 year old slobs driving a semi? That can't get fuel and go park and walk a extra 100 feet to get 10 Big Macs. Can't shower or wear clean clothes. And only clothes they can wear are sweat pants flip flops and tore up t shirts. Most of the disgusting slobs everybody #####es about are 45 plus years old.

 

Maturity, temperament, and willingness to work would be far more important traits of a truck driver vs. the actual age of the truck driver.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

21 is very tough. Insurance purposes.

At 21 I was working seaports with containers to start off. In a day cab that was around the early 60's with flaws and items not repaired. Once I took a rig out that did not have a back window at all. The weather was good, but the window was not important that day.

Then I lucked out and hired on to a bulk cement tanker and was given a proper trainer and lasted a few months until I destroyed a hood of another company truck because the customer in his suit came out and demanded me to move that rig and unload NOW. Which was a total impossibility. Yelled at me, move the #### thing now I don't wanna hear your excuses. CRUNCH. Result was he did not get that unloaded another few more hours. I got fired the next day.

At 21 you are not much good unless you have a very good trainer to teach you all the little devil in the details and ins and outs of whatever it is you are involved with. You are VERY valued for your ability to withstand unloading heavy meat, seafood and other types of reefer loads for many hours without getting tired at that age group.

Im not your opponet and not here to make it difficult. But it's #### tough to get into the industry at such a tender young age due to insurance issues. You can still get hired on, but it's not going to be the nice shiny 20-15 studio truck with no touch freight straight across the USA to start. That's just not going to happen. They usually chain you to a region say the midwest for a while. Then a bit of north east and then Texas. Once you have that in and had a taste of mountain work, they will give you a trainer and send you west to learn the bigger hills and different laws in the scales etc.

By then you will be 23-25 years old if you have not yet quit or get fired. and then you will begin to see oppertunities come along. But you gotta put your time in. I was in my 30's before Trucking Companies started to use me for something else besides lumping freight. And eventually became a trainer and tester with a couple of outfits with the goal of detecting unfit recruits and get them eliminated from orientation. If you were knowing what you are doing without trying to ######## or showboat you will be good to go.

But you gotta put in your early years and stick with it. So many quit in 3 to 6 months they never really break in properly and learn all the things there is to learn. Heck even today Im still learning.

Don't stress or be in a rush to grow up. 25 and 30 and 40 and so on will be on you and gone before you know it. They say life is short. You don't know that now being so young. But that too shall pass.

 

I don't know I just drive the truck.If your looking for a lot lizard I can help you with that or where the Bears are I know that .Why you ask so many questions you a cop.

 

So what if he is Law Enforcement?

There are stories and then there are some stories that you don't put on the net if you have them. They have a way of coming around again.

I think the situation regarding commercial company out there on the road had changed and not for the better. If you are going to be inclined to engage in that kind of activity, you will find it or it will find you. I strongly suggest you do not. Heath is one of the few golden things left in life if you do not accrue illnesses, STD's or god knows what around the USA. And yes I myself have had hookers make a proposition to me overheard by my spouse from the sleeper at a time or two it's not a problem thanking them for the interest but no and here is why.. they are usually gone halfway down the block before wife sticks head out to see about it. In NYC there were times hookers were paid to keep the urchins off the tractor trailer with the graffitti paint cans while I grabbed a bite to eat in the deli right quick. For the most part, over paying them a little bit for the work protecting the truck at rates they were accustomed to making was a good deal all around. Truck was safe, I did not have trouble and usually over time built up a sort of a known presence for the next time I had a load into NYC for example. Just takes a little cash and a little time. But no illegal behavior or contact whatever.

With that said, the Law is not what I worry about. There is a theory that a man who does nothing illegal has nothing to question or fear from the Law. As far as my other stories about fast dollar trucks and such, Ive been caught a time or two in my time out there and yelled at and fined heavily. And there has been times they know #### well who it was and I will find a company officer standing waiting for me to pull in as happened once as the State Police worked to break a cycle of speeding on I-270 and the American Legion Bridge where there would be a bunch of us together at 90+ in the far left two lanes coming into VA. The number 6 man stood to lose about 67 dollars for the day's wages because there were only 5 silos availible and tickets back then were 45 dollars flat. So you could afford to risk that extra 290 to 360 dollars gross wages for the day. In time Virginia levied signs banning trucks from the two left and imposed fines larger than you could gross in a day's work something like 500 dollars to start... for being that far left. So there is no point in continuing.

 

^ You should change your user name to trigger finger