Almost have 2 yrs OTR in, looking for LOCAL out of IA

Haul Fuel. It probably won't be 8-10 hour days though. More like 10-12. The trade off with local jobs seems to be the actual time you have to enjoy being home. LTL night line haul or fuel delivery finds you home sleeping during the day.

Personally I prefer a regional deal to local. A perfect 2 week run for me is 3 out and back dedicated loads. Leave Mon home Wed afternoon...Leave Thursday, home Sat morning. Off Sun-Mon... Leave Tuesday back Thurs PM/ Friday AM then start the cycle over again. This cycle averages around $1000 a week for the 2 week cycle and the quality of home time is better than I would get working local and home every night too tired to do anything but sleep. In 2 weeks that's sleeping in the truck 6 nights, Home 8 nights with 5 complete days off.

 

I used to see some of those local guys sleeping on their steering wheels on the ramps along the Avenue of the Saints. I don't know which town is nearer, Waterloo is about 100 miles from Des Moines by short miles, if you are in or near the waterhole, there is Dohrn, and Vitran /Sysco in Waterloo, and Martin Brothers and Target Distribution in Cedar Falls and many of the OTR companies that operate there have regular day runs that you might get if you get lucky.The intermodal operations run around there, too; US 20 and 218/380 are pretty good lanes, and just to the south you have I-80.

There are lots of companies; I just listed the ones I recall, Hawkeye Foodservice has terminals near Iowa City, and in West Union(they took over H&H).