Profile For Justin C.

I've been checking some old posts and I seem to notice there are not a lot of tanker drivers here. Just wondering for those that are, what do you think about it? I just started it and like it so far. I drove reefer and dry van for 6 months with a small company ( about 125 trucks) hauling produce mainly. I just started with a really small tanker company in NY (about 25 trucks) food grade. I have driven in the winter with my last company but I'm really worried about it with the tanker as the products surge sometimes viscously. I see Brett you have driven food grade tankers for a year, what made you only do it for a year if you liked it so much, if you don't mind me asking? Any good advice anyone has would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Not to many tanker drivers on here?

Hello. I am new to the tanking world. I am not new to driving a rig but new to food grade smooth bore tankers. Anyone have any tips and pointers they can give? The surge is a scary thing sometimes specially when you forget and get hit with it. I am really worried about it with winter quickly aproaching. So any advice would be appreciated.

I used to drive dry vans and reefers doing produce. Moved closer to home and found a small tanking company out of NY. Been doing this for a few weeks now, and am trying to eat up as much information as I can specially about winter driving with tankers. Thanks for any help you can give.

So I am a new driver just recently graduated school and now have my CDL-A. I am having the hardest time finding a trucking job now because I have two suspensions on my MVR, not for moving violations. One was when I lived in NJ I had apparently gotten a parking ticket that I never received and had already gotten my FL license, didn't find out about the NJ suspension until I applied for a company to go there school. Apparently my NJ license had gotten suspended about the same time that I left for FL back in 2015. My Florida license got suspended because my insurance company at the time didn't bother to tell me they wanted another copy of my license so they canceled my insurance which in turn suspended my license, it wasn't until I got pulled over one day and the cop told me my license had been suspended, that happened around April of this year 2016. I have paid all the tickets and paid to reinstate both licenses.

I have been applying to companies still in hopes someone will at least give me a chance but so far no go. I have been told by one company to come back after I have at least twelve consecutive clean months from the time of my last suspension. I really want to start my career but I am wondering if I should just give up and look for something else and then try again when April 2017 comes around. I hate to have my CDL just sit there though for that long. Any suggestions? Any other companies anyone knows of I could possibly try?

Hi, I failed a drug test with RoadMasters trucking school. Positive for THC was only one nanogram over but still it was a fail. I did SAP completed it and now am finishing up the training, as the school told me I can come back to finish once I completed the program which was 30 days long. The school also told me it would be hard to find a job now in the trucking industry, even had to sign a waiver that there was no guarantee for them to place me somewhere now. I have done a bunch of Googling and have found forms that are saying different things. One says, you might as well give up now and change careers cause there is no hope, the other says to keep trying, but it will be extremely hard to find something and will probably have to go with a smaller company or go owner operator, and another one is saying that there is still a possibility to get into the bigger companies like Werner or Swift. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Is there hope or should I give up and look to do something else? If there is do you have any suggestions as to what companies I should look at? Relocation is an option (I am currently located in Florida), I am also a disabled veteran of the US Army. Any help would be greatly appreciated.