8hours Max per Day Please!

i was telling him what I DO, and I LOVE the crappy night shift, as there are hardly any vehicles on MY ROUTE at those hours.

did you also see where i said, "Look around, they are out there"?

or do you just ignore what you read?

 

i also "prefer" the crappy night shift, as someone called them, as for me, LESS traffic and in the winter time, that LESS traffic leads to more snow removal on the highways with out the plows having stupid 4 wheelers all over the place!

by the way, i worked for a fueling company as well, (crappy night shift again), refueling equipment at various places.

 

AAA cooper is paying 24.35 per hour. Averaging 50-55 hours per week. Off weekends for p&d.

 

Honestly, for the most part, you will work HARDER with a local job than you will with a regional or OTR job. I'm local mostly because the wife likes it that way, but I prefer to be out on the road.

I've always found that local is more stressful simply because you DO come home every night. Most of the time, that time at home consists of showering, eating dinner, and then going to bed. Reason? Working 12-14 hours doesn't leave much time for anything else, especially when you add in the commute to and from your work/reporting location.

For me as a local driver, I don't have a life Sunday night through Friday afternoon. Most nights I hit that sack an hour after my wife gets home from work. Basically, many days I don't get home until late afternoon, and then have to be in bed by 7:00pm so I can be well rested for the next day.

To the OP, I do think you'll have a difficult time finding a driving job with the bankers hours you're looking for. Most companies will run you close to your 14 hours, unless you specifically hire on as a part time driver.

 

That's what I see every day....stressed out foot to the floor day cab drivers. Never seen a day cab that wasn't in a hurry riding my ars ,passing me as soon as they can just to get it done and get home. I'll take otr any day.... work my hours I want to work, eat a good meal (not from truck stop) shower and, get a real rest then move on. PS No offence intended to Voyager1968

 

No.

 

I work M-F 3am-11am. I could start later if I wanted, I just like the early schedule. I'm able to get things done in the afternoon, attend school sports/functions etc. Hourly with overtime, which I don't see very often. I have worked 45 hours maybe 5 times this past year.

I drive a truck and pup picking up sand and rock for a small ready-mix company. The owner wanted someone with a clean record who wouldn't damage his equipment.

These jobs are hard to find, but they do exist. The main thing is keeping a spotless driving record so you don't have to compete when one does become available. Another thing that seems to really help is looking for jobs where they only have 1 driver. Like my job, I'm the only driver that has my position. This makes it easier to manipulate the job to fit your needs. The boss has no one else to compare you to.

 

No offense taken...

You hit the nail right on the head though. That's exactly what it's like, and when I was in a daycab, I was like that myself. I run local still, but now I'm in a sleeper, so I don't worry about running out of hours for the day anymore, and take my time.

As for good dinners, even a truckstop dinner is better than what I eat most nights. Due to my wife's schedule, as well as my own, we don't have time to cook good dinners during the week, so it's a lot of frozen stuff like pizza, Stouffers, and those bagged Bird's Eye meals.

 

Well I'm quite the opposite, Local daycab tanker spend most of my day riding in the right lane barely doing the speed limit. Not stressed out one bit

 

As many have said, you will have to look hard to find these jobs and if you are a novice driver you will have to get pretty lucky to be hired at one.

Look at companies that want someone to shuttle trailers between plants, small companies that need local delivery drivers for THEIR products, Spectrum is looking for CDL possessing line-men...

There may be 1099 jobs local to you that may fit your criteria, but 1099 is an issue all by itself.

Check out staffing companies that handle drivers, they will have temp or permanent positions that may fit your criteria.

Have you considered going to work for your state DOT or local Highway Department?