Regional or local?

Did line haul during the summer. The dock was very hot. All night I had sweat on my forehead. Each night I got more and more tired. One night when it was time to hook up to head home (6am) I stood at the side of the tractor and looked up at the door and had to work up the energy to climb into the cab. ALL THIS BECAUSE I COULD NOT GET A GOOD DAYS SLEEP.

When I run OTR, I run at night once in a while, but I have a choice most of the time and run days 90%. NO PROBLEM. Now don't get me wrong, there are guys that love it. But I think they are a smaller percentage of the drivers.

In my humble opinion, I would try to go regional (NJ should have somthing), be home weekends, get your experience down, and a world of opportunties will open up as long as you keep your nose clean.

 

Yes they give all the good jobs to students!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Local probaly doesn't pay as much but at least your expenses on the road aren't as bad.

 

I think that u make more local I just made 71250 last year and on track again for the same and I never go over 60hours a week plus home every day start at 5:30 done by 2:00 or if I work after that it is overtime, plus good benefits, making 27.00 an hour so I say go local, this is my 5th year started as a temp and got full time last year. Got my senority plus now at 3weeks vacation plus 2 weeks that I banked. Got to love Pepsi.

 

Nice gig. Is this delivering to local retail, unloading at each stop?

 

yeah usaully im on a side loader today finished my day at 1:30 then helped another guy ended up getting 2 hours overtime lol

 

My dad delivered locally to retail for Canada Dry on Long Island for 40 years.

 

dag you make 71k doing the side loader?

 

My second driving job was for a McD's distributor, did line-hual for them for 2 months, got burned out fast driving the same road every night for 5 nighs straight.