Can someone explain to me: Otr, Regional, and Dedicated
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by SUPAKING25, Jun 15, 2011.
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OTR ..Over The Road...also known as LONG HAUL
you are away from home 1 to several weeks...
Regional...usually you do an over nighter at some truckstop, motel, and back home the next day, or by the very least, by the end of the week
dedicated....you do the same run day in, day out...and some times you need to be a senior driver to get onto one, or at the very least, live in the area they need a dedicated driver.tscottme and SUPAKING25 Thank this. -
Pretty much what he said. OTR is just that, over the road. May be several days out, may be several weeks out.
Regional is driving within a specific region, such as midwest, southeast, 11 western states, etc. Some regions are larger than others! Might still spend a week or two out.
Dedicated might be the same run daily, or it might be for the same customer, with different runs.CK73 and SUPAKING25 Thank this. -
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I posted about this in your other thread. Local is usually delivery. It is back-breaking 12 - 15 hour days, 6 days a week. Pay is not as good as OTR. It may be for you and it may not. I consider most local work as delivery not driving. Many OTR companies don't see it as experience for their purpose. There are other local jobs that aren't delivery, but as you can imagine, the demand exceeds the supply. Knocking on doors and face to face interviews can get you what you want.
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Last edited: Jun 15, 2011
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What is the difference between dedicated and local runs
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Local is depending on who hired your company for the day. You might be a Mr Cement pouring a school one morning and a couple of tornado shelters the next and a sidewalk the day after that. Who knows. -
Dedicated you have only particular customers you deal with, like driving for Walmart.
Local runs you are like UPS. You deliver the load where ever in a local area. BTW? Local area could be the size of Los Angeles at 100 square miles -
At my company we have the Kraft and Nestle dedicated on Reefer and Lowes for Dryvan. So the dedicated account guys only go to places that are Kraft or on Krafts account. So basically every week they get the same miles and go to the same places over and over. A local company however may have multiple customers it serves. One customer you might be dropping off a pallet and than going to the next customer. To me I have no desire to do that type of work but that's just me.
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