Local Trucking Jobs For The Selected Few?
Not everyone wants to become an OTR driver and local trucking jobs have plenty to offer those that want to come home every night after work. Local trucking jobs will also go by the name of "intrastate driving". This allows drivers once they turn 18 years of age to be able to get into the workforce. Interstate drivers on the other hand need to be 21 years of age before they can cross their state lines. Some carriers require that these drivers be at least 23 years of age or even higher because of insurance restrictions.
Providing the young driver has sat and passed his CDL he will be able to apply for any local trucking jobs in his area. Usually though he will start out on the smaller trucks and by the time he is 21 he will have gained a great deal of experience and be ready to move into other types of work. This type of work will usually entail a lot more customer contact with much loading and unloading of your truck. The trips are generally of shorter duration such as delivering goods throughout the city, or they may entail overnight runs but they will still be within your state lines. This is more unusual though, as most local trucking jobs will be set hours but certainly coinciding with normal business hours.
People choose these kinds of trucking jobs for many reasons. They may have a young family and don't wish to be away for long periods of time. They may be responsible for other family members, or they may have specific sports or interests that they are not prepared to forego. They may not like the long distance traveling finding the trips arduous and boring. In fact there can be any number of reasons why a driver will choose one type of trucking job over the other. Naturally some drivers are qualified to drive tractor-trailers which spend a lot of their time on the interstate highways, however many tractor-trailers are still involved in local truck runs.
Locating local trucking jobs is going to be a matter of checking out the local papers, the internet and visiting the local carrier companies. If you hang out where the truckers go then insider knowledge may also prove to be a very good source of information. Quite often local trucking jobs don't even get advertised as word of mouth proves to be very successful in finding suitable candidates for interview. Visiting the trucking companies yourself and taking your resume with you may also prove to be a successful way at finding a local job. If you present well, and are in the right spot at the right time, then chances are anyone would be prepared to give you a trial go. A large number of drivers will spend their whole careers switching between local trucking jobs and long-distance work purely because they need the flexibility in their job. It takes a special kind of person to be able to cope with being away from home for large periods at a time. 
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