Future O/O what experience is best?

Don’t think you will get hired on anywhere with the pay you want with no tractor trailer experience. I got hired on with service transport for tanker with no experience but I busted my ### for 54k. Gonna have to pay them dues like everyone else.i it’s possible to make 75k after 1 year. Maybe even after 6 months

 

Flatbed.

 

Owner operator and home everyday in.... Oregon. Won't make much money on that path.

Freight sucks there to try to be home everyday

 

There are some LTL outfits that will put you in a truck if you're willing to work on a dock for a while.

I don't know about Oregon but on the East Coast ABF has its own Driving Academy. They also are a union company.

I would check with the LTL carriers near you if you don't mind working on the dock for a while. Like I said some of them are even good union jobs that if you're young and you get in now you'll get a full pension and everything full benefits the whole thing.

As far as owner operator experience, probably the best is a company that does Regional work or Regional to local work. Then you are not far from home but you're still getting some experience in traveling.

If you buy a truck make sure you buy sleeper because you never know how far you're going to need to go or if maybe if you go a little farther you'll make a little more or whatever the case is.

And it's always nice to have extra room and be able to stretch out take a comfortable nap or sleep all night if you need to.

I would never trade my sleeper for anything else.

Good luck.

 

Yes, just gotta find somebody who is willing to go with you and train for a couple of weeks

 

The food service route would be a good route to get started if you want to make that much right away. It's also going to wear you down physically which you're looking to get away from. If you went that route I'd get your experience and get out.

People are desperate for truck drivers right now so I'd just start places that run local to you and see what happens. More and more companies are taking brand new drivers that never would have in the past. Fuel can be something that gets you home every night and some of those carriers are training new drivers now. Out west fuel can be more regional than local so you might have to call around and find out. LTL like other people mentioned.

When it comes to being an O/O later, you have to find a niche in your local area. That's something you'll have to figure out on your own since it varies by location and people aren't just going to give that information up. While you're doing your getting experience job start paying attention to what's getting moved around your area. Look for things that take special equipment like pumps and such. Look at some of the smaller trucking companies around you and see what they offer and what they're doing. Smaller companies are the ones usually doing a lot of the local/regional work. Might even find someplace that you'll want to lease on when you get your own truck.

A niche is where you make money. If you don't specialize you're just another truck working for peanuts.