Age of drivers, is 60 too old to start?

18 yrs. old minimum and no top age. 60 is young in trucking.

 

Your age, while the industry claims a driver shortage, will put you behind the eight ball, and the companies will refuse to admit it. Yes, the lack of experience at any age, will hurt, as these companies refuse to put money into driver training. They want the benefits of a trained driver they just don't want to pay for it. And you will hear a lot about the driver shortage, it is a industry manufactured illusion to mask the failure of management.

 

Not at all. I've came across a driver that was a rookie at age 70 before. 60 is not old
...hell 70 is not old anymore. Look at Vince McMahon, 78 and still getting in trouble lol.

 

Go for it! Plenty of companies will hire you, especially refrigerated trucking companies.

 

I started truck driving at 59 years old.

 

I started when I turned 55, that was 13 years ago.

 

how old do you look?

 

It takes a special breed to be a driver. You have to be aware of your surroundings and have common sense. Today’s generation of drivers are the WORSE. The MEGAS and SCHOOLS use the students that just barely graduated with absolutely NO behind the wheel experience as TRAINERS. I’ve seen this first hand cause I’ve ran into 2 of them. And the ones that have had behind the wheel experience is very minimal. I’ve been trucking since 1979/80 and what is out there today just blows my mind.