Thinking about LTL, and I live in Bakersfield

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  1. gramcracker

    gramcracker Bobtail Member

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    I've been researching LTL companies, and decided to put this question to the drivers on this forum: which company would be a good choice for my location, and the most solid choice for a career? I want to retire from the company I finally decide on.

    My background: I'm 47 years old and have driven the last 10 years OTR, reefer. It finally got old. I have all the required endorsements, but zero experience with anything other than a '53 trailer. My driving record? Almost perfect, but not quite (backing incident 4 years, no cops, no injurys, but preventable). Thanks.

    Oh, Bakersfield, CA, btw
     
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  3. KillingTime

    KillingTime Road Train Member

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    I don't know you, but I don't like you.
    I care less how you feel.
    As I sit here and judge you.
    I've never walked the streets of Bakersfield.


    I kid.
    It serves one to be light hearted.
    Shortly, someone will be along to tell you how good your chances and where in town to find them.
     
  4. gramcracker

    gramcracker Bobtail Member

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    I worked for Buck at a little printing press he owned when I was around 19? Always been more of a Hag fan tho...
     
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  5. Giuseppe Ventolucci

    Giuseppe Ventolucci Medium Load Member

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    I see Saia and Conway in your area as options. Most peeps would prob go with Saia as option#1.

    Good luck sir. Must be easier doing LTL in a smaller town like Bakersfield.
     
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  6. Mike2633

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    In N Out Burger has an opening near Stockton, CA is that near Bakersfield?
     
  7. gramcracker

    gramcracker Bobtail Member

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    Too far, but thanks. I will gladly eat there though.
     
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  8. gramcracker

    gramcracker Bobtail Member

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    Saia is probably who I'm going to try. Their terminal is about a mile from my house. thanks
     
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  9. Mike2633

    Mike2633 Road Train Member

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    We don't have In N Out Burger here in the mid-Atlantic. I want to drive for them if I could. I almost yesterday filled out the application to work as a driver for In N Out Burger I have all the qualifications, except I live 3,000 miles away oh well. I don't think In N Out Burger though will ever be in Ohio, it's to big of a move I'd be a stranger in a strange land with nobody, but they sure have a nice fleet of trucks and actually seem like a really nice company.
     
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  10. speedyk

    speedyk Road Train Member

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    Move to California, get corrupted by all that sun, wake up one day with no memory of Ohio other than "that cold place with no ocean nearby".
     
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  11. Mike2633

    Mike2633 Road Train Member

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    I used to work with a guy who spent his time between Ohio and Los Angeles and I was asking him about Los Angeles and he said "Look there are more people from Cleveland in Los Angeles then there are people from Cleveland in Cleveland ha-ha."

    I don't have ocean, but I do have a big giant Lake that spans a couple states about a mile from my house. I do think it's hallarious that people from around here say "Were going to the beach." That means there going to Lake Erie I always say I'm going to the Lake, but people call the shores of Lake Erie "the beach", the beach is on the ocean, not Lake Erie.
     
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