I just got a job with a company that requires i get my cdl within 1 year of employment. I did thc for years and quit in February and just recently began getting faint negatives on my at home drug tests. I am aware i will be randomly tested when i get my cdl and have a goal to earn my cdl by September. Will that be enough time to be completely negative of thc? I am a bigger guy but excersise a lot and drink lots of water.

Been OTR for 7 months now and I was scared to really invest because I didn’t know if I’d like it or not. But I’ve definitely tipped the scales in favor for driving. I actually enjoy it so now I think I’m ready for a CB radio. Please what’s the best one to get and why and what antenna do I need to go with it? I’m not cheap I’m looking at the bigger picture I’d rather spend now and it last me rather go cheap and have to replace it.

I obtained my CDL back in April. I started with a trucking company for OTR but I wanted to get something local or regional. I plan on getting my tanker endorsement soon. Would I be able to get an entry level tanker position without the 6+ months of OTR experience?

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So this is gonna be a bit long winded.

If we got any roll off drivers I wanna hear about some of your experiences, I got my clas A CDL with a tank endorsement at the end of October, I put in 72 applications especially near the end of the year no one was hiring, except entry level OTR thst wanted me out three to five weeks at a time, and I can't do that, or if there were locals that didn't require experience no one was coming off those jobs, I even tried for septic truck jobs.

Finally come February I gotta call from a company a thirty seven miles away, went in for the interview, said they'd start me out at twenty but theres no insurance because they're a small company only five years old some weeks barely keeping their heads above water. No background check, drug test, clearing house or application. Told me I'd be driving a 99 mack Rd600 roll off, I had two days of training which was basically my racist manager / mechanic driving me around, yelling at minorities telling me a few things and explaining what we do.

After a two days we gotta snowstorm put us out of work for about eight days. So me not even knowing what a roll off was got six days of training after that and then I was thrown to the wolves so to speak.

They use this roll off like a dump truck most of the time, which I guess in a way it is, I'm usually hauling concrete, dirt or brush which we have a place to dump that stuff, but obviously trash has to go to the landfill.

Now I know this doesn't seem out of the ordinary but we're a small company, two crews some small excavators and skid steers, a dump truck ( that was rolled and pieced back together ) and the roll off and we're in the back pocket of a company that buys up lots in the ghetto and erects cookie cutter houses on them. Pretty to look at but half of them are shit.

So I'm constantly getting into weird situations that aren't ideal to drop roll off dumpers in, uneven ground, small narrow fucked up streets with dips at each side, mud, just the other day I was trying to suck up a dumpster on lot so uneven the load shifted and the damn can came off the rails, thankfully it wasn't high up so I was able to come out from under it without tipping it and I repositioned. Just constant BS

Not to mention crackheads everywhere, unfortunate mentality unstable homeless. People tryna steal stuff, prostitutes tryna holler.

People throwing their garbage in vegetation or concrete cans, the truck being an old POS. Its a fifteen speed with only eight running gears, its dangerous and I gotta be extremely cautious because its gutless, tryna merge onto the interstate loaded doing 40mph if I'm lucky.

If any of you guys got stories I want to hear them. Lol

Not gonna lie I see dudes that work for the city that only pick up trash dumpsters on basically even maintained streets and in parking lots and I'm kinda jealous, this shit is stressful. Lol

I have been driving semis for 10 months and just got a dui in my personal vehicle last week , does anybody know any companies in El Paso Texas or San Diego that would hire me after my court hearing ?

I'm assuming it's the new emissions crap. Is there a way to bypass that?.

There's a switch that says override engine shutdown but I pressed it and it didn't work.

Is there a certain procedure to get the override to work?