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Wow .... no one else? So how do you get "expediting" experience if all the expediting companies want drivers with "expediting" experience?

Are there expediting companies or even non-expediting companies with their own fleets of straight trucks? My second questions is do they hire students out of school like some companies with tractors and trailers do (swift, schneider, CR England, Pam, Warner, etc.) ?

I just googled my own question and this is what i got ... i guess this answers my question .... just posted for anyone else who may want to know. http://www.truckingsafety.org/faq/faqlicense.htm

I had a Chauffeurs License and just the other day applied for my CDL A, the lady at the Secretary of State told me that CDL A is just a category and that i had the option of keeping my Chauffeurs License and adding on CDL A category or taking the chauffeurs off at which point it will just be an...

Is California a terrible place to live for a truck driver? If you absolutely had to live there, would the southern or northern part be best?

Thank You guys for all your help, i can't stress enough how much this post has helped me out ..... My decision is made after reading all you guys have to suggest plus my fathers suggestions this past month...... I'm going to complete a CDL A training at a local school and go to work for a...

Yeah I've been browsing between this site, commercialtrucktrader.com and truckpaper.com pretty much every day, and am still looking, hopefully something better will come up. If not I think i might just have to go through CDL school and just get the CDL A to have a little more breathing room.

Could you please explain how is this 18ft truck that i'm looking at that "no one wants" is worse then driving a cargo van.

Plus nothing is in stone yet, hence this thread.

It's only cause i found a good deal on this particular truck with a rebuilt Cat C7 that has only 40k miles on it. Otherwise i would of went with a 24' box.

I appreciate all the responses guys, if anyone has anything else to add don't be shy. My dad has been an owner operator for 20 years driving for companies(never under his own authority) and keeps on re-routing me to go to school for my CDL A and drive for a company, accept i have no interest in...

I'm starting out new in the trucking industry and was planning on buying a straight truck with a 18ft box with NO sleeper (26k GVW), i figured i can carry right around 12K in loads, and plan on getting my own authority to find my own loads on load boards. No need for modesty here, just let me...