18 And Need Help Finding A Company!

Hi I am 17 gonna be 18 and am going to fox valley tech to get my CDL class A license. I was wondering if anyone knows any local company's around me that will take someone with no experience and has to stay in the state. I live in Hartford WI about 30 mins from Milwaukee. Every comment is great to hear! Thank you to anyone who helps out.

I would think you might need to look in the farming community. As most major carriers are going to want you to be in your twenties.

are you saying like local farms or are there like actual farm company's

I would think you might need to look in the farming community. As most major carriers are going to want you to be in your twenties.

Local companies usually want experience. Since you're not 21 yet you cannot cross state lines yet and companies don't like to hire such young folk to drive something this dangerous. You're going to have an extremely difficult time finding a company to take you on primarily due to your age and lack of experience.

I wanted to go to trucking early but I had to wait until I turned 21. It sucks but that's just the reality. Getting your CDL but no job will be a complete waste of your time and money. Take it from someone who has been in your shoes, i honestly would wait until 21 if I were you.

What Daniel said is pretty much what I was getting at. It's not so much the company but the insurance. Although again farming is abit different but should be looked at as a hail marry pass... You might get lucky and catch it at the right time but.... the odds are stacked against you.

You might have to start out driving a class b truck until you are 21. It is going to be difficult to find a job but here are a few suggestions..

dump trucks

Cement trucks

garbage trucks

moving companies

That's all I can think of at the moment. It's going to take a lot of door knocking and accepting a lot of rejection but it is not impossible.

I've looked around and today I'm gonna go to a local manards distribution center they accept new CDL class a drivers with experience or the willingness to learn so hope fully they will accept an application I also have a family member working there so I hope that help I told u guys it wasent impossible to find a local OTR driver

I'm not a recruiter or anything but, have you thought about joining the Army and being a truck driver for 4 years? Then when you get out, you get your school benefits that would put you through a trucking school, and quite possibly you'd already have your cdl from your Army career. My sone is in the Air Force and they needed someone to driver a tractor trailer from Florida to California and back a few times, so they send him off to truck driver school. He's in Contracting for the Air Force!! He'll probably never have a need to use the license again but, what the heck, your taxes sent him to school for it.

Just make sure if you do go in a service, they GUARANTEE you a position as a truck driver. Not too much need for tank drivers on the Interstate Highways... yet.