Newish dirt truck driver contemplating the move to OTR

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Denver, Colorado

 

You mean even after..."tons of research on this Forum & elsewhere"...you still don't know which companies are the really good ones -- & which ones to avoid at all costs???

-- L

 

After all that research you've done here earlier -- while China dishes out the winners -- do I (& maybe others) still need to list the super-losers for you?

-- L

 

What does a bad week look like? If it's even half of that, my advice would be to stay right where you are. @Chinatown is good, really good actually, but he's not a miracle worker.

 

If you are open to fingerprinting cases, you can easily do over $100K and work 5 days. Denver has traditionally been ran out of Mount Sterling, which was depart Sunday and be home Wednesday night, with a short turn/trailer swap on Thursday. However, they added this Denver location and drivers are doing it from the other direction. I’d definitely call them and see what kind of schedule Denver drivers are typically running. I do know CDS drivers run dedicated to the same customers and run the same schedule on the frontside of their week. The backside is basically filler work to finish out their week. @GL1800 might have more accurate info on how the Denver drivers are being ran.

 

If that's your gross, then I agree you need you need to switch. But you said net in your original post. You're not going to do much, if any, better in OTR right now with no previous experience in that area, especially with the hometime you're looking for.

 

I would recommend OTR End Dump considering you have that experience already, search on Craigslist & Indeed.com

 

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