Would a new job know if my last job was a class b?

Well it is the law that they have to verify your past employment. Take that to mean what you want to.

 

Your best odds are to truthfully state that your last job was class B. If it later comes out that you knowingly falsified your application, it will NOT end well for you

 

Fedex asks if each previous position involved using a fifth wheel..

 

One word: yes.

 

They'll know and probably hire you anyway and give you some refresher training.

 

My thought.... employers ask these things to make sure that you can do the job. You have an offer with a straight truck only company. Take it if it works for you. Down the line, there are dozens of tractor trailer companies to apply with. It is far more likely that you won't get hired with the last 2 years being straight truck, than them finding out down the road about it, and getting terminated. If it makes you feel better, find someone with a tractor trailer that will let you drive it around the lot once every 6 months. What really matters (from a company owners perspective) is whether you can do the job. I've hired guys that said they could do the job, and couldn't. That is where they landed back out on the street.

 

It's been a moment since my last application but I'm pretty sure they ask specifically if you drove a Class A vehicle on your last place of employment. Am I mistaken?

 

It does not matter. Class A is useful for some Class B running Class A airbrake trailers on a pintle like i did with mine. We some days put 10 ton on that trailer and another 20 of stone in the box and essentially grossed more than some 18 wheelers out there some days.

I was in TBH Westminster Md One day (A Concrete construction company.) I delivered to there with a bulk tanker 18 wheeler for months prior. It was raining so almost 20 of their lowboy trailers with mack day cabs surrounded their small office for what passes as the presidents.

The yankee told me that I did not qualify with my Class A reason Over qualified. (Im deaf using hearing aides just like people wear glasses...) and I swept my arm across two walls worth of windows full of 18 wheelers with the oval blue and grey TBH logo on them and raised my eyebrow at him.

He said nothing, reduced to silence by the absurd statement of being overqualifed. The real issue was discrimination due to my deafness. Which would have put them against my lawyer in ACA but frankly I let it go, half the people there had issues just existing. Never mind working in such a crazy outfit. It's too bad too because decades later I would walk into two seperate Arkansas concrete places and run bulk tanker for them and ready mix as required when the bulk tanker tractor broke. Not broke down but broke as in salvage parts broke. And later in the other one, a better operation put me into a 4 wheeled loader working sand and stone when I was not also running mixer loads out. Eventually I got back on the big road. No worries.

One of them quit the concrete stuff. And got into gasoline and such. Modern disc tractors done right and stuff like that. Its a pity they did not spend a dollar back in my time there. Makes for a seriously poor lasting impression.