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will my driving experince count??

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Mekanic, Sep 29, 2011.

  1. Sep 29, 2011 #1
    Mekanic

    Mekanic Light Load Member

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    for anything ??
    Back years ago I had the chaufers lic and I did almost a year at Home Depot in 1990 doing residential deliverys in a 22? foot flatbed with one of those 3 wheeled piggyback forklifts. Every thing from 32K of bagged mulch to concrete blocks and ALL types of lumber, and drywall. If they sold it I delivered it. Carring around a forklift was nice! it made it easy!
    Fast forward to Jan 94 I started a Towing company back in Ohio ran it till 2005. I didn't have a big enough truck to require a CDL so I just ran on my standard operators lic. This is where I REALLY learned about tieing things down like cars and pieces of cars.
    My main truck was a rollback just a few times I even hauled some heavy(9K-12K It was heavy for my truck) within 100 mils of course.
    I never had a DOT number as I never left my home state. :biggrin_25525:
    The towing company time is easy to verify as I did a lot of work getting DUI cars off the highway for the OSHP.

    So my main question is how many places are going to think this is worth anything??
    How do I use this experince to my advantge?
     
    Mekanic, Sep 29, 2011
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  3. Sep 29, 2011 #2
    Lantern

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    From my understanding, most company's want recent experience. If you went without a CDL job / operating a Class A truck for more then 30-90days I would doubt they would count that experience. Maybe, some times, it depends.
     
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  4. Sep 29, 2011 #3
    harleymanjax

    harleymanjax Rookie Skateboarder

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    nada, zip, zilch, nothing!
     
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  5. Sep 29, 2011 #4
    TennMan

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    most want verifiable with in last 3 years and must be all 48 in type of equiptment they run
     
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  7. Sep 30, 2011 #5
    RAGE 18

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    Sorry man bad news is it wont count towards the CDL the good news is you hold the upper hand against any other new guy in a flatbed you know how to tie down...
     
    RAGE 18, Sep 30, 2011
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  8. Sep 30, 2011 #6
    Mekanic

    Mekanic Light Load Member

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    That kinda what I was thinking and hopeing for at least I should be at the top of other New drivers.
     
    Mekanic, Sep 30, 2011
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  9. Sep 30, 2011 #7
    driverdriver

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    Even if your experence is recent and have 5-10-15 even 20ys
    but you've been outa the truck 3-6 or 8 months just cause your lookn for a good job instead of taking anthing to keep a pay ccheck rolling in. they'll use that as a excuse to only offer you basic new hire rate.
    or tell you need to pay for their refresher course. Any excuse to not pay you what your worth
     
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  10. Sep 30, 2011 #8
    chompi

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    Most companies treat local experience, if verified by the company, as partial experience. Meaning doesn't carry the weight as if it were over the road. Over the road experience is mainly what they are looking for. They explained this to me when I questioned my rate of pay. Just cause I got my license in 96' didn't mean crap cause I wasn't over the road the whole time. The took the sum of my over the road months, then the sum of my local months, divided the local months in half and added it to the over the road time. The number they came up with was my total years in experience and this is what they based my pay on. I drove for two major over the road companies and they both did it this way. Also to add to that I was told that if it had been awhile since I had been over the road then they would deduct a certain amount of time from my over the road experience. Your chaffeurs license doesn't add up to anything. Only CDL A experience, not B, D, E, F or whatever the hell else there is.

    Reason they are so picky is because this is how they determine your pay. Wouldn't want to over pay you now would they?!
     
    chompi, Sep 30, 2011
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