Yard jockey out of trucking school.

Hell companies hire noncdl folks for yard jockey.

 

From wjat I have seen, they require 1 to 2 years experience.

 

There are many jobs that have you home daily/night. Ready-mix cement, trash hauling, propane delivery, yard jockey, fuel delivery, etc.

Drive around your town and look for "daycab" trucks. They have a window behind the driver seat, no sleeper compartment. Those drivers are home daily. Every company is looking for drivers. Pay varies by location and company. You may not make $20/hr to start.

 

Most companies looking for yard jockey jobs want a minimum of at least one year yard jockey experience.

If you're lucky some companies will hire you with at least one to two years of OTR experience, but most want yard jockey experience.

It's one of those jobs where no one will hire you without yard jockey experience, but when you ask them, "How am I supposed to get experience if no one will hire me?"

They just smile and shrug their shoulders and say sorry.

 

Some companies literally invite you to take a jockey position if they feel you are a good match, but you would already have to be with a CDL, trucking and all of that good stuff.

Ive actually had a OTR sleeper truck where the USA is my domain, but spent a few days yard jockeying Buffalo at a brass foundtry there once. I was not paid very much for it and the tractor did not do well with that clumsy work. But it got done.

As far as experience that applies to hiring OTR? Yard Jockeying aint it.

You and every single newbie out of school with a fresh cdl in the wallet has the exact same problem. No experience how to hire on if you cannot get experience.

One solution is to work for a dump truck outfit small enough not to care about DAC etc. If you work a few years in that work which is essentially class B with some trailer work if you have a A license and airbrakes etc then you can eventually get into the OTR work.

I would not be so stressed about going out with a trainer, why would you not want to go out with one? There are things out here you need to learn and a trainer will get it sorted for you. A year? That's it? You are looking at what? 30, 40 or 50 years into your future of trucking depending on where you are with current age and health.

Most people don't last a year for a variety of reasons which is why we need a awful lot of new hires to replace the turnover.

 

All I can offer you is that CDL in whatever State you get issued one after all the testing is passed at the State Level is the same CDL I run on out of my State and him, youse, them and theirs all over the USA.

It's best to pay cold cash for schooling and be done with it. So you have the CDL.

There are so many employers out there you will find something. However, with that said; it's not going to be a pretty yellow brick road all the way. There will be rough edges you will learn as you trip over a few bricks on your way.

Good luck!

 

All you need to be a good yard dog is back into holes 100s of times a day and yell at drivers. Those are the qualifications. I dont know how much they usually make. My guess is its not quite 20 an hour. Seems steep for a job with a narrow job description.