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Local CDL Driver Resume Guide (2026) Local driving is the home-daily lane. A metro bubble (30–80 miles typical), 8–12 hours on the clock, multi-stop pickup-and-delivery work, and you're in your own bed every night. The seats are at LTL city P&D...
Team Driver Resume Guide (2026) Team driving is the fastest-utilization lane in trucking. Two drivers in one truck, rolling split-sleeper on a high-priority freight contract (automotive JIT, pharma expedited, cross-border lane, time-critical...
CDL Class A Resume Guide (2026): Endorsement-Aware, Freight-Ready A Class A CDL is the broadest license the federal system grants. It covers any combination of vehicles with a gross combination weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 lb or more, where the...
Dedicated Driver Resume Guide (2026) Dedicated driving is the lane for drivers who want to know who they're running for every week. One customer (or a short list), a fixed schedule, predictable home time, and operational fluency deep enough that you...
Regional Driver Resume Guide (2026) Regional is the lane most experienced drivers target when OTR stops fitting and local doesn't pay enough. You run inside a defined multi-state region — the Southeast, the Midwest, the Northeast corridor, the...
Trucker Cover Letter Guide (2026) Cover letters in trucking are optional at most mega-carrier OTR applications — and near-mandatory at private fleets, specialty carriers, and any seat where the pool is small and the recruiter has time to read. A...
Truck Driver Resume Guide (2026): Class, Endorsements, Route, and Freight Per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, heavy and tractor-trailer drivers earned a median of $57,440 in May 2024, employment is projected to grow 4% from 2024 to 2034, and...
OTR Driver Resume Guide (2026) OTR is the default lane in trucking and the one most CDL-A drivers build their first big mileage on. Mega carriers (Schneider, Werner, JB Hunt, Knight-Swift, CR England, Prime, Stevens, Heartland, Marten, Covenant,...
Tanker Driver Resume Guide (2026) Tanker is specialty freight. The endorsement stack is larger (Tanker N, Hazmat H, usually X-combined, sometimes TWIC), the pre-trip is more involved (product verification, vapor-recovery, bottom-loading inspection),...
Oversize / Heavy Haul Resume Guide (2026) Oversize and heavy haul is flatbed's specialty tier. The freight is permitted (exceeding standard dimensions or weight), the trailers are specialty (Landoll, RGN, multi-axle, jeep-and-stinger...
