Post 45 in this thread spelled it out for you. The first 8 in the list are LTL companies, the next 4 are food service companies.
Apply to any of the first 8 and put in your time. You will be at top pay with most, if not all, of the 8 within 3 years, all the while gaining seniority, which turns in to better bids (if you want a bid run).
The linehaul guys get paid mileage and the job is strictly terminal-to-terminal pulling mostly wiggle-wagons. With some LTL companies, you will have to work the dock when you get there, to finish out your 14 hour clock (getting paid hourly once you start the dock work).
The P&D guys are paid hourly and have set start times (ie, leave the terminal gate at 0600 every morning) and you go to customers in your assigned areas picking up a pallet or 2 here and there and bring it back to the terminal to be put on an linehaul truck along with other pallets with a similar destination, so they can go across the country or across the state to be put back on another P&D truck to be delivered to another customer.
Speak to the terminal manager of each company that is within a reasonable driving distance to you (do really want to drive 2 hours to work, put in 14 hours, then drive 2 hours back home every day or would you rather drive to a different company that is only 15 mins from your house?). See what each terminal manager has an opening for, and apply.
It's that simple. You either get hired, or you won't. If you don't, do what you need to do to clean up your record, gain more experience, etc. Keep trying and you will eventually get on with one of them.
Finally living in florida any good local trucking companies
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If money is what you're after, you can't go wrong with LTL. Old dominion, Estes, Whatever... It's a good investment. I worked 3 days last week and it doesn't matter because I've saved up so much money running 3500+miles a week during the summer.
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Check into NFI as well see what they got. They have flat rate pay as well I live in Virginia and get paid $275 or $300 helping other NFI-G&P accounts. Today was a Lowe’s load it paid me $275 for a 4 1/2 hour day, Drop N Hook store to DC back to store.
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Normally I’d also disagree about the whole “paying your dues” nonsense, but the OP is definitely having a hard enough time finding work that it might be something to consider in this instance. A year of steady CDL-A work, no matter what it is, will do a lot for getting interviews with local gigs.Jmelendez1223 and McUzi Thank this. -
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Roll On down to cr eangland I make a lot more than these ltl people do.
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