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VFR 135 with less than 500 hours? Not even legal.
I challenge you to find one single place in the country that flies freight under VFR and that regularly hires/uses 500-hour pilots.
And I'm not talking about shady 134.5 operators either.
You probably won't. At least not in this part of the country (northeast, midwest).
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At my first company, the absolute minimum they'd hire is 500TT for 135 single-engine PIC VFR. Of course, it all depended on supply and demand (the company were losing lots of guys to the commuters/regionals at the time) of the particular hiring time, and the ability of the applicant to sell themselves in the interview. The PHX to Yuma route was VFR 98.9% of the time, so that was a good timebuilding route (as was Lake Havasu City/Parker, or Bullhead City/Laughlin).
My point is, like MTSU, the possibility is out there, maybe less of a chance these days maybe not, but 500TT was the requirement for 135, and the company would hire guys that had that or more. Is it competitive to apply at 500TT? Of course not, but the worst an operator can say is no.