Quitting over the road for home nightly and the economy

You gotta unload em ?
Like at gas stations ?

or is it normal truckload warehouse to warehouse ?

 

Word is that's the deal until you get to orientation. Oh sorry that job has been filled. You'll have to start in our OTR division. The job probably exists, just can you actually get it? Goes back to how much do you trust the recruiting department.

 

Warehouse to DC, it should be mostly drop and hook. Usually, the only way you get to fingerprint anything is if you shift the load. If your carrier is contracted to Coke, you will probably work closer to 60 hours than 40.

 

Holy crap. For so many years I didn't know I (and many of my co-workers) had it so bad being local. Can't say it was all peaches and cream but I can say the same for when I was OTR. Parts of my local might have been like you describe but it was not all doom and gloom. One persons way of making a living does not have to be as bad as someone else thinks.

 

I bet you get everywhere fast by burning rubber.

I bet the places you got to deliver to, you just slide that trailer right on in, no fuss, no muss! .

Couldn't resist...I'd apologize but nobody would believe me.





I know where the door is, I'll show myself out.

Sirscrapntruckalot -

 

Take the job. Your mind is made up anyway. Working for a bullet proof company that's 12 miles from your driveway in times like these is stuff dreams are made of. Being at the bottom always sucks, and it gets harder the older you get. If your any count you won't be at the bottom long. My vote is to do it. If you don't it could just be another thing on a long list in life you regret not doing.