What to do????????

[GMAN]

It seems that many of the major carriers don't consider local driving when they are hiring OTR drivers. I know. It sounds strange, but that is the way some look at it. Unless you find a smaller to mid sized carrier who doesn't care how much OTR you have that you may be relegated to go with a carrier who will put you with a trainer for a couple of weeks. Some of these carriers are getting really strange with some of their requirements. I am sure if you persevere you will find a carrier who will hire you. You may check the company listings on this forum and see if any of those are a good fit. Good luck. Let us know how you do.

[Drivinhome]

Thanks for all the responses and yes i will keep you updated. i spoke to the recruiter at NFI today and he was more than helpfull as far as explaining things to me. He said it is a fact that the insurance companies are controlling the way things are being done right now. He liked my record and the fact i have plenty of expierence and as far as he was concerned he would love to grab someone like myself. BUT, the insurance companies place mandatory requirements on the bigger companies and require that any driver hired must have Verifiable one year OTR in the last three years in order to be hired. He explained that if i were to have an accident and the insurace company checked me out they would raise NFI's rates through the roof due to a violation of there policy.

I believe the insurance companies are taking over this industry and it's sad. Onward and upward i will try to remain positive and search for small mom and pop type operations. On a side note the bigger companies seem to be saying they are only hiring students right now. I talked to Swift today as well and they said they were not hiring anyone with expierence. If you have had your CDL more than 1 year they were not interested. They want only students who have not worked for anyone else. Must be a government program.

It appears im in the middle of the sandwich. Either they want no expierence or someone that has one year OTR in the last three. Im going to keep at it. Sooner or later i will find something. Hopefully sooner.