Disregarding MVR, why don’t you work LTL?

Some guys like doing it their own way and not being told what to do by a bunch of people.

I tried local for ups for abit. Hated it.
It was pud as could be.
But hated it.

Driving the same roads I would want to neck. But some people love driving a certain region everyday.

Different strokes for different folks. Like that in any industry. Like I'm back in sports and I'm not having some assigner's #### in my jaw and taking a cut. Some people love assigner's and not finding their own work. Just an example.

 

Because LTL can be a grinding soul crushing experience that is impossible to get time off and can be a special little slice of hades on earth if you have a crappy TM. I spent almost two decades with CFCC, CF, & R&L on line haul and city. I’m very familiar with the LTL world and I am glad it works for you. It used to be the goose that laid the golden egg that you had to wait in line to even put an app in. Now it’s more like the cat that puked up hair ball on your porch. My quality and quantity of home time as well as financial gain is better in the regional truckload market than the LTL market. Liftgate residential deliveries SUCK! Used to be LTL meant bumping docks almost all day and palletized business to business deliveries with no liftgate. Get 15 residential/small business deliveries on a straight truck or 28’ liftgate pup with your pallet Jack flipped sideways to make it fit and a broke dick two wheeler with one low tire and you’ll be hating life.

 

Different people like different things.

Some people like not being responsible for the truck and work. They find owning the truck and the stuff involved stressful. They like being handed a work order and going to complete it. They like having simple routes that they can learn, do easily, and be home every night. They like the consistancy and lack of responsibility.

Other people are basically the opposite. All the stuff that comes with driving a company truck is what they find stressful. They like having ownership the truck, doing the maintenance on it, and being responsible for it. They like going to different places they haven't seen and find driving the same routes and going to the same places boring. They don't need or want to be home daily/weekly. They might not live in an area that they want to drive in or be in consistently.

You also have people who find everything that comes with working for somebody else stressful. When it comes to being an independent owner, they like being responsible for booking loads etc instead of depending on others to find them work. They like not having other people watching over them. They like the responsibility involved in doing everything work and company related and like knowing it's their own fault if a mistake happens.

There's no right or wrong way. None of this makes one person better than another. It all comes down to you and how you like to work.

 

I'm of the married and teaming variety, but I'd still stay with my current OTR outfit even as a solo. It pays better, and I prefer to have a week off a month as opposed to just weekends. Plus I don't want to do the extra board grind that comes with a lot of those ltl gigs starting out.

 

I like the environment of flatbeds. I like the customers, shippers, receivers etc. It would drive me nuts to be stuck in a city or town doing multiple deliveries every day. I am looking at a belly dump company close to my house. I need to get some recent experience before I can go there though. Again, I like the construction environment. Most of the people you work with and around are other blue-collar workers and there is a mutual respect for each other. Office and dc managers seem to be a bit too high strung for my personality. It is a conflict waiting to happen, so I just stay away from it. I know the LTL can pay a bit more but for me the extra income is not worth the added stress and frustration that comes with it.

 

Because I pretty much do whatever I want, when I want, and get there the way I want. I'll never be able to work for somebody else again.

 

I'm not suited to be a company driver.

 

Saia. One of the most controlling LTL’s. Same company that wouldn’t let a grown ### adult use a CB radio.