Any 100 percent drop and hook companies out there ?

Yea well you would definitely want to do a van or reefer job...if u do tanker(food grade) u dont touch n e thing but u have to climb on the tank a couple times..but flatbed will have u outdide on top of the ttrailer throwing chains and straps trying not to fall...

 

I don't think that's even a problem, many companies will hire people with poor driving records and criminal records so age isn't going to be an issue.

 

You don't think age is an issue you are not very old. I'm 67 haven't had a ticket for over 25 years and have over 4 million miles under my belt. Companies can not legally descriminate against age but they sure do it. I've seen it in small and suttle ways. When I was a CDL instructor we had several students come through the program that were 55-65 usually guys that took an early buy from GM and the company paid for their schooling. Everyone of them had a harder time finding a job and then it was usually with a bottom feeder.

Also truck driving is a whole different style of living, young guys can addapt, us older people are more set in our ways and resist changes like that, one of the reasons we are called old farts.

 

Dennis, most of these trucking companies have drop & hook dedicated accounts. Talk to the recruiter about getting on one when the time comes.

They all won't be 1,200 miles but they can add up to a decent paycheck.

 

I can't thank you enough for this post. After I read it, and thought about it, your answer was so simple. I have been driving OTR reefer for 18 months, and I would love to have a job that involved nothing but drop and hook. I know it exists with the company I drive for, but you have to be a trainer or a team to get the linehaul runs.

Anyone hauling doubles is obviously going from terminal to terminal, and they are probably not spending the night at a truck stop. Thank you so much. The answer was so easy, but I never put 2 and 2 together, until now.

To those that were giving the OP a hard time - why are you so upset that people don't like to work harder than they have to? I'm glad you guys are out there tarping stuff in the snow and wind, I sure as heck won't do it. I try to work smart, not hard. Thankfully, you guys don't seem to care. *fist bump*

 

Mr Road runner if you truly read the Op's Post. Unless he is going to buy a white truck and drive for Fed Ex Ground. I don't think pulling doubles is what he was looking for. Of course we all would like to do less, but the job he described is a dream job, and he's going to have to do a couple live loads on one end or the other. B4 he can get a gig like that. Now if he would of said local or regional. Yes there are companies who take product from warehouse to another across town or between cities. Drop and hook and repeat. But getting a cdl and thinking you are only going to do 1 type of job would not be very smart. That's what happens to all these guys who come out of truck driving school thinking they are going to get a local or regional job and have to go OTR for weeks at a time.

 

I hear North Korea is hiring, 100% D&H, fuel is pumped by employees during sweat shop breaks, and you can choose your route as long as it down go too far South!