which job is for me?

It also depends on what the freight traffic is like in your particular area. My last job before retiring would easily be a 60 hour week in five days. But then sometimes, it could be a 30 hour week. I was doing local P & D in a semi rural area.

Be sure to look at EVERYTHING with a prospective employer. Trucking companies are exempt from federal overtime laws, and many of them flatly do not pay overtime, no matter how much time you work. It sucks, but that is the way a lot of them operate.

 

Who do u work for road runner?...if u dont mind me asking...cause im looking for a linehaul job. I have about 10 months experience otr, hazmat, doubles/triples endorsements, and 1k a week is plenty for me! Please respond! If anybody knows a good company looking for a linehaul driver it would help me out tremendously! Live in north georgia, but have no problems relocating for a good company looking for a linehaul driver. Any suggestions?

 

I work for USF Reddaway, with our sister company out east being USF Holland (both excellent companies ). But honestly, pretty much all LTL carriers take good care of their people. Other good companies to look at are Conway Freight, Old Dominion, ABF, NPT, and MTS to name a few. All of us run the same job description, we just have a different logo on our trucks/trailers. I would start looking now since freight is going to pick up around spring. Check with company websites job listings or even Craig's List. As for your listed endorsements, those are a obvious must. Also look into getting tanker endorsement as well. Alot more companies are pushing their drivers to have it just in case due to that new law they are trying to pass about hauling certain quantities of liquid totes. Hope this helps. Good luck!

 

When I was working local for awhile most of the time I worked two 14 hour days and one 16 hour day. Sometimes I'd work four days. It was a pretty nice schedule while still making a decent paycheck since they paid overtime. The new local job I'm about to start just has a rule that you can't be forced to run after getting 55 hours in a week, but you can choose to optionally. So pretty much five days a week if you want.

Just check everywhere around you and find out what they offer and their policies. There really are a lot of local opportunities out there depending on where you live. LTL, manufacturers with their own transport divisions, specialty freight and even local divisions for OTR companies.

 

I am just coming out of school. I live in north Georgia. I want to be home weekly or daily would be great. I am a woman so do any of you have any suggestions of any companies where I might could do that? The flatbed drivers have great jobs but I don't think they would hire me, if you know of one let me know. Thanks

 

It's not the most common but some people have it. I got a friend at Old Dominion (linehaul) that works 8 hours a day, saturday and sunday off. He has a 400 mile round trip, comes back drops the pups in their respective doors and he goes home. What a cake job, 55 cpm and no deductible on health insurance. Are you kidding me? This is how this industry should be.

 

And just how many years with Odie does this guy have? Must be one heck of a lot of them.

 

around 6 or 7 I think, why? that's uncommon for OD?

 

Kind of uncommon for the industry. I'm certainly not knocking Odie here. I don't know enough about them to knock them, I just know a couple of guys that are quite happy with them.