Going Back To Trucking
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Short answer....Not Sure.
You will need to check with private insurance to see if they will insure you. 8 years with no experience at all I believe most insurance companies will be afraid to insure you cause you may have lost skills in driving in their eyes. That is where I would start.
If your CDL is still valid, you might just have to go through some refresher training course for a couple of weeks.
As Guyjaks said, It would depend on the company.
Dave
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
Hi, and thank you for your reply, my cdl is valid, I can get insurance with no problems. I agree with the ideal of getting some refresh training, I would have to find a school that is not sponsored by a truck company here in Florida. Thank you!
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
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Hello everyone, I'm looking for some advice. I became a truck driver in 1999, trough CR England in park city Utah. I finish on the road training. but I decided to comeback home and buy my own truck and do intermodal , delivering container's till 2007, now I would like to get back to trucking but I don't want to do the schools, and over the road training again. My question is, if I buy my own truck again and get my insurance, mc, dot , would someone hire me to do OTR work ? I call a few companies and they all want at least one year experience with I don't have. The reason I stop trucking in 2007 is because the economy started to get really bad, specially doing intermodal. I really appreciate any constructive comments thank you!
OTR:
Over The Road
OTR driving normally means you'll be hauling freight to various customers throughout your company's hauling region. It often entails being gone from home for two to three weeks at a time.
Over The Road:
Over The Road
OTR driving normally means you'll be hauling freight to various customers throughout your company's hauling region. It often entails being gone from home for two to three weeks at a time.
DOT:
Department Of Transportation
A department of the federal executive branch responsible for the national highways and for railroad and airline safety. It also manages Amtrak, the national railroad system, and the Coast Guard.
State and Federal DOT Officers are responsible for commercial vehicle enforcement. "The truck police" you could call them.
Intermodal:
Transporting freight using two or more transportation modes. An example would be freight that is moved by truck from the shipper's dock to the rail yard, then placed on a train to the next rail yard, and finally returned to a truck for delivery to the receiving customer.
In trucking when you hear someone refer to an intermodal job they're normally talking about hauling shipping containers to and from the shipyards and railyards.