1 Month Driver Experience
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Quentin, I won't cover the topic of lying on your app, save for the fact that it would be a huge mistake.
I looked into JB Hunt at one point myself. The recruiter said that they will take 3 months of tractor trailer experience, specifically stating that it didn't have to be OTR experience. But as another driver mentioned, moving from your first company after only 3 months to get in w/ JB Hunt might not be the best decision. You'll have to make that decision for yourself. THere's a reason why a lot of experienced drivers encourage new drivers to stay with their first company for 1 year.
I'm a new driver myself, but I can see that not only does it take time to learn how to do the job, it takes time to learn how to do the job for a particular company. You'd have to start all over again with learning how another company likes things to be done, on top of still learning how to be a professional driver. Plus, you don't want to get into the habit of moving from company to company. You do that enough and it will start to look bad - some companies only want to see a certain amount of job hopping.
Personally, my goal was to go w/ a company and try to stay for a year, and then go to JB. But I might have moved to JB Hunt after putting in my 3 months experience with my first company. I wound up having a unique opportunity for myself right out of trucking school with an LTL company, so I'm already with a company that I can just stay with for the rest of my career and be home every day. If I didn't get this opportunity, I would be looking at JB Hunt for local, dedicated work, either in their DCS division or running intermodal.
I wish you the best in your journey.
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
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.
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.
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Quentin, first, congrats on the Class A!
I can vouch for that! I am with the same company I started out with fresh out of school...and...after one year doing truckload...I am now one of forty out of thousands in their touring and production division. In fact, I am sitting in VA right now ready to deliver my first production load.
I highly recommend you stay a year whether you like them or not. Do a good job and you will have many, many choices.
Good luck!