Home Fuel Oil Delivery Requirements
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Most places that haul home heating oil or any petroleum based products in a tanker will require experience. That being said you might look into a smaller company. Some of them are willing to train someone who they feel would fit the job. You could also look into a job driving a dump truck, cement mixer or even running a hopper bottom hauling grain. These places will normally hire someone with very little experience. Best of luck to you on finding a local job. They are hard to obtain with little experience. Most of your older (experienced) drivers will be snatching them up. 
Robert, it pretty much depends on where you live. Location trumps experience. Local opportunities might include food delivery, oil / fuel delivery, garbage truck driver, LTL , or intermodal.
Home fuel delivery can sometimes be a seasonal job. It really depends on where you live. Look around, you might be able to find a company that will fund your schooling / training for your CDL A.
If you wanna be home every day and work days from the beginning, I'd suggest looking into being a garbage truck driver, fuel delivery driver, or LTL P&D driver. Dump truck driver doesn't usually pay much, unless you're in a union shop.
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.
LTL:
Less Than Truckload
Refers to carriers that make a lot of smaller pickups and deliveries for multiple customers as opposed to hauling one big load of freight for one customer. This type of hauling is normally done by companies with terminals scattered throughout the country where freight is sorted before being moved on to its destination.
LTL carriers include:
- FedEx Freight
- Con-way
- YRC Freight
- UPS
- Old Dominion
- Estes
- Yellow-Roadway
- ABF Freight
- R+L Carrier
P&D:
Pickup & Delivery
Local drivers that stay around their area, usually within 100 mile radius of a terminal, picking up and delivering loads.
LTL (Less Than Truckload) carriers for instance will have Linehaul drivers and P&D drivers. The P&D drivers will deliver loads locally from the terminal and pick up loads returning to the terminal. Linehaul drivers will then run truckloads from terminal to terminal.
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.
You will need a hazmat and tanker endorsement most likely.
Phil
HAZMAT:
Hazardous Materials
Explosive, flammable, poisonous or otherwise potentially dangerous cargo. Large amounts of especially hazardous cargo are required to be placarded under HAZMAT regulations
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I'm looking to start new career in trucking industry. I'm studying to get my CDL learning permit. Don't really want to go otr , just thinking about jobs without long haul and thought about oil delivery, not sure what all is involved. Can anyone give me advice. I'm 56 years old and only have a hand full of jobs
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
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.