married and trucking

with the right company regular hometime shouldn't be an issue. FWIW, I'm married 20 years, with 2 children, I get home every weekend and sometimes thru the week.

 

Most of the OTR companies are going to require you to be out weeks at a time. Depending on where you live, there may be some regional opportunities or even local opportunities that will have you home weekends or even during the week.
Likely you will need to do OTR for a period, at least a year, before these local opportunities open.
If you live near port or rail facilities that ship intermodel, see who's running most of that. Schneider? Swift? Check with them.
Look at LTL carriers. They are often home more often. Line haul work.
Good luck.

 

If you want to get into LTL, give me a shout!!

 

Hope it all works out for ya,you know where to find me if you change your mind.I applied there when I first got my cdl,since I am in union construction trade and laid off alot during this whole economy thing,they said I had to many jobs in a certain period of time.

 

There really is no reason that you shouldnt be able to be home every weekend, not like your in a horrible freight market.

 

Not sure if you have enough recent experience but check into Eastern Freightways located on Black Horse Lane in North Brunswick NJ. They are the truckload subsidiary of NEMF and normally get home each weekend.

They have recently added a flatbed division and NEMF has a terminal in Pennsuaken Nj so you would have plenty of opportunities to get into a local gig at some point.

Can't hurt to check them out and at least make a phone call. Let me know if I can help further.