Looking to getting into the game

I'll trade same old for 6 figures 8 days a week. You go see the country and sleep in your toilet every weekend, I'll be at my cottage on the lake up north. Real yucky.

 

You are already making more then most Class A OTR drivers do. Don't let anybody kid you. A class A is a good thing to get, but an OTR driver at a Mega makes crap per hour.

OTR experience is seldom useful. Most local jobs pay more and don't give a crap about OTR experience. Some do, but not most.

I always say avoid school if you can. From what I have seen trucking school is nothing but a money maker from those that sell it.

I don't know exactly how everybody does it, but many people are able to get their Class A without going to school. You are already half-way their with the class B. Stick a trailer on the back of that dumpster driver and go get the A.

Yes.

If your going OTR, you will be miles ahead if keep the apartment so you have a base from which to shop around for local jobs. But keeping the apartment with OTR pay and little to no home time may be impractical.

Keep them at the terminal. Don't sign up with a company that won't let you park your cars their; apparently that is a thing now.

Possible. Very possible.

Just don't expect to get a local Class A job with one of the mega training companies. They have them but they just don't give them away to just anybody.

Most of the Class A jobs that are advertised are not worth having.

That is not to say a Class A is worthless. It isn't. Get your class A and all the endorsements. Just don't believe all the promises you read from the job adds.

 

600-800 is about what I take home after taxes and bennies. I am on a Walmart account out of wintersville, oh. From what a friend on the courthouse account said you guys have a 300 mile running radius and start at about .39cpm. Glad to hear you have a plan though. It took me months to decide to do what I'm doing now. Good luck to you.