New driver/employee questions

This varies by the company. Best thing is get the license and job then ask your employer.

 

Well as an employer and if I was hiring you to work for me. I would probably see how far this load would take you. Make a deal with you on price. Depending on a few other items may make it happen.

Now big box has way other criteria for their equipment and you as a driver working for them.

Good luck on getting that back to your home.

 

some do watch back roads especially areas where trucks like to try and go around scales, maybe they just havent seen you...or your little truck is little importance to them

 

A dead head run makes the company nothing, but for some reason this scares me a bit. Probably comes down to the liabilities associated with the load more than anything else. The approach you may have to take is consider yourself the shipper and handle the load that way. The company may be in a position to offer a cutrate rate to move the freight so your costs on that end are minimal but it maintains a clean transaction. On the other end you receive the load and are able to claim the freight charges against the product you a moving.

 

DOT has portable scales. They use them all the time here in Florida on the "back" roads and raods often traveled to get around the scales.

 

I hit one of those portable scales once in Colorado, out of nowhere there was trooper cars on the side of the road waving me in

 

Just curious why you would think whatever company hired you wouldn't want to get top dollar for every mile the truck moved. On top of that, you said your going to school which means you have no experience, so most likely you'll end up with one of the training companies as it is very hard and very expensive to insure a rookie. They will not let you do what you want, unless you become the customer, and they will charge the appropriate rate. Also, most OTR platform drivers don't just run out and back, they run all over.