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try your local gas hauling companies.

 

I'm from the West Coast, but maybe you can look into hauling fuel. They're usually local shifts and home every night. I haul fuel over here on the West Coast. Great pay and I'm home every night, plus you're consistently getting in and out of your truck pulling hoses and staying active. Hope I helped a bit. Good luck to you!

 

webster trucking in brattleboro vt looking for grocerie drivers for C&S I don't have the experience yet

 

Try foodservice you ll get plenty of exercise. Some are home every night, some every couple days.

 

I have worked for Webster (B H trucking) hauling for C&S. I would be a bad person if I didnt warn you about them. Heres the reasons why.
1)you need to know that you will spend the majority of your time delivering to Long Island, NYC, and NJ. Count on it.
2)You will also have to call in EVERY DAY to get your dispatch. Yes, you do have a set work week schedule, but that doesnt matter. If you cant get thru and you call in late, there may not be work for you at all the next day. You WILL work a minimum 12 hour day. I could never understand how the company has people scheduled to work and not have the next days routes allready assigned.
3) you WILL drive some tired rigs. They have some hand me downs from other branches that are in poor shape. You'll see new trucks, but as a new driver, you'll never sit in one.
4)any damage to any equipment you dont report before you leave for your run, you own. Going over every inch of the equipment takes time away from your run, but the company is NOT forgiving, and drivers wont own up to accidents because the truth is not rewarded.
5)Your schedule will be all over the place. They will run you legal, but you may start at 2AM monday, then 7am Tues, 3am wed, 11am thurs. You WILL get runs that start you right at rush hour, on the busiest roads. Try 95 at 9am!
6) THEY say you get delay pay after the first hour. HA!
7)Drivers ALL photocopy their trip sheets because they have ALL been shorted.
8)You get paid miles as they see fit, not as you actually drive them. They wont tell you to go any specific route and will only pay the shortest. You being smart and finding better ways like less traffic routes, only benefits the company.
9)freight is loaded so poorly it is tipping over before you have even left the yard. Makes each stop take longer.
10)Dont smoke? So sad , too bad. They have trucks the call "no smoking", but are always filthy with ashes.
11) Pay, especially for newer drivers is HORRIBLE considering all the factors. I think they are as low as .30/mile. Highest pay scale is .42 per. Even at that rate is it worth it? Is it worth the stress of 95 traffic? Dealing with grocery receivers who dont want to work, let alone unload you?

I got smart and got out. You be smart, dont get in. Trust me.

 

How much heavy lifting is involved in these jobs?

 

Way more than I want to do. You unload every piece of freight on the truck. Take it off the truck, put it on a hand truck, drag it in, across the entire parking lot, often up steps, then put it away at the customers location. I can't imagine it's not thousands of pounds a day.

Many a drivers have left OTR for local to be home more and then went back OTR so they weren't too tired to do things when they were home. I'm speaking from reading not personal experience.

 

also in the winter if it snows you have to shovel a path to the door for the hand cart.

 

I drove OTR for 5 years and packed the lbs on. So I went local in foodservice. I work 4-5 days weekends off sometimes, sun off. Home everyday and pay is good. It takes a lil to get used too and is very physical work but Its not terrible. I have a bad knee and it doesn't bother me from 3 yrs ago. Work at a steady pace and youll be fine. Don't overkill yourself. I have been hitting the gym to strengthen my self and have plenty of energy. Start times suck though usually 130am-5am but you get used to it plus you don't have a route when you first start. Other jobs have crazy start times too not all jobs are comfy. I took foodservice cause I wanted something that paid extremely well off the bat then having to work your way up for years. I got bills to pay. Plus I needed to drop weight for my health and have lost 20 in 2 months of work.