Had More Miles Running Local Than Over The Road

Not sure if this is just me, but 2022-2024 I did local jobs. Both had me at average 550 miles daily 5 days a week. Now that I'm doing OTR I'm barely breaking 300-400 per day 6 days a week. Is this typical? I keep messaging the planners for loads but find a lot of downtime in between loads (like 10-20 hours in between loads) and most loads have a lot of time between pickup and delivery...so I sit a lot.

 

Dry Van...and guess who I work for I dare you...

 

Yep. I'm working for one of those megas...because all I've been doing the last several years is local no OTR outfit wanted to have me onboard.