Does such a job exist?

No. Not yours. I can tell you some companies that do not use freightliners, but no north east? It's not as bad as you may think. The toughest place I had to back into was in Charlotte, NC. Which is far from the northeast.

 

Living where you do, it's gonna be tough to find an outfit that doesn't do some business in the Northeast. Add to that the fact that you will only accept certain brands of trucks and it's going to be a pretty tough deal to find.

 

I think Shaffer may hire in his area for the southeast. Check their website.

 

Shaffer = Freightliner's if you're talking about the Shaffer that's part of Crete

 

thank you, sir, may I have another....my rock garden has been lacking some attention as of late

you're the one who recommended a company that has a fleet of trucks the original poster said he didn't wanna drive...on second thought, perhaps you should keep that rock

 

3000 miles a week is gonna be tough in the NE, due to lower speed limits and congestion. Even if you work work 7 days a week, that'll be very difficult. If you can run a long haul, coast to coast dedicated type of run, you'll get more miles. I know a guy that runs doubles for a FedEx contractor. They do terminal to terminal, drop and hook. When he gets the Orlando to LA to Seattle to Orlando run the team gets right around 7500 miles (practical miles) on a nine day run. This is a gig with very little wait time at eaither end and they run like madmen. Since they split the mile rate, figure one guy's end is essentially 3750 miles for what is normally about a 9 day run, However, he normaly has 3 days of home time in between so if you calculate his average weekly mileage, based on a 52 year work year, it works out to about an average of about 2200 miles a 7 day week. even if you could continuously do this with no home time, thats just over 2900 miles a week and that's running long hual, drop and hook all the time in areas with a 70mph speed limit. BTW, this guy gets more miles/yr than anyone I know of.

So I suppose near 3000/wk is possible with a long haul, but it just doesn't happen. If you can get 2800/wk average on OTR, that's great. On NE regional, if you get 2500/wk, you're a madman.

 

If you can get long hual drp and hook loads in the plains as a solo, you can probably get 3000+ a week if they have the loads for you. The problem is the wait time between loads and to drop and hook. If you can run your full 14 a day and avaergae near 60mph, you'd get theoretically get over 5000 mi/wk, but realistically, stops, fuelling, inspections and terminal time alone are going to put your running hours back to about 10/d, meaning you may get 4000 a week when you're out, IF YOU CAN GET THE LOADS.

You might try checking around in ID, WA and OR. There are some companies up there that haul a lot of long haul lumber east and backhaul industrial supplies, etc using Petes and KWs. Mostly small independents, but they are there

Cobra is The Comprehensive Omnibus Budget Reconsiliation Act and is a compliance nightmare for companies with employee benefit plans, especially if they are participatory between the company and it's employees. They usually hire specialty administation companies to handle everything, so talk to your current employer and they will likely refer you to their compliance company to answer your questions and let you know what options you have if switching employers. You will not get good answers here. I was an attorney for 12 years and ran the employee benefits for over 400 people as a retail/manufacturing executive before that. I understand COBRA pretty well, but could write 600 pages and still not make it clear, even to me.