Anybody got any good companies in mind??

JB HUNT is a good company, but if you want to fly down the Interstate, I'll suggest you look at some of the smaller companies like Western.

 

Watch a lot of company's in Chicago area get shut down. Most have very bad scores before u sign onto a small company there look at the CSa score

 

If you would be interested in being home most nights , have really good pay/benefits/retirement plans/health insurance/vacation/sick/personal time...and you'll be with-in a close commute of Lemont IL. Check out Golden State Food's. They are a fast food dist. and are a really great place to work...... if you don't mind a hands-on job. I worked for them for over 30 years and loved it.

 

How about regional with Millis Transfer?

 

Bulkmatic
Foodliner
Maverick (weekend home program)

 

I'm rather biased towards Bulkmatic. The main terminal is in Griffith, IN, and the company is very regionalized.

Home every weekend is not an issue. Not 100% sure how the Chicago area differs from the terminal I run out of, but if it's not much then you can expect home every weekend and most days thru the week.

 

What you want to also be leary of is a mega OTR that promises a 'regional' fleet to get you home every weekend but isn't telling you that a) it won't actually happen and, b) your paycheck will look like it shrunk in the wash. (In my case, that was Gordon.)

With your two-plus years recent experience, you could probably find something like I found out of Indy--great pay (really great pay), all loads go out from Indy and back to Indy, senior drivers home every night if they want, other runs out a couple days and back.

If you left in June, though, it's October now. Anything over a month or two raises questions. So you need to get on the stick. You want a smaller niche company with great pay and a regional footprint so you'd be happy with whatever they throw at you.

There was a Bulkmatic driver in town (Spencer, IN, pop 2,500). Haven't seen him for a while. Dropped his trailer at the edge of town and bobtailed to the house--in his new-looking daycab. Now, what does that tell you?

 

I know the driver you're talking about. Without going into many details, he's an exception to the rule.

99% of the drivers I work with live within 25 miles of the terminals and are home every weekend and most nights through the week.

There are a few drivers who like to be gone all week, but that's up to them.