Location of yards and housing

Discussion in 'Prime' started by marinegordon, Sep 16, 2013.

  1. marinegordon

    marinegordon Light Load Member

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    Hey folks, i have read a few of the threads and posted on one and multiple people responded thanks again. I had one question as an aspiring truck driver and thinking of prime i found as great deal on a house in Alabama but the closest major yard to that house is 7 hours away in Savannah Georgia. Can you live that far away from the major yard? i was under the impression as a OTR truck driver you can live where ever you'd like. but thinking about it a bit more made me want to ask this question. Can anyone answer if its possible without dropping your truck off at the yard and having a 7 hour trip on your home time to do? will they route you close to your house and have you pick up a load around it etc? or is it out of the question and move on from the thought.

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    Marshall
     
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  3. bigkev1115

    bigkev1115 Road Train Member

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    Marshall, you can live anywhere in the hiring area as long as you have a secure location with permission to park your truck. By the way, what part of Alabama you re looking at moving to if you don t mind me asking
     
  4. marinegordon

    marinegordon Light Load Member

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    ah thank you bigkev i will just have to call them an ask if its in there hiring area i guess just trying to do as much research as possible before giving the call and hearing the recuitment pitch and saying hell ya i will do it! I found a nice house in excel alabama close to frisco city. i currently live in MA so would be a big culture shock hah
     
  5. Bigox3k

    Bigox3k Light Load Member

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    Its great living down south but im bais to say that since I grew up here. Just dont become one of the many deluision bama fans.(I say that i jest) theres a drop yard in atlanta but like bigkev said your truck goes home with you if u got a place to park it.
     
  6. paul 1052

    paul 1052 Heavy Load Member

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    As long as you're living in one of their freight routes you're ok, don't worry about terminals if you have somewhere safe to drop your trailer or park, now say if most of their freight is moving on I 20 but you live below I 10 you may have a problem with them not wanting to pay for the fuel for you to go out of route to go home... I'd ask them about that before hiring on.

    With fuel costing about $.60 per mile some companies might not want to pay for you to go very far out of route to go home.
     
  7. marinegordon

    marinegordon Light Load Member

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    alright thank you very much i have been home shopping in MS and found some nice ones east of the Mississippi so that would probably work out. again thank you Paul
     
  8. gatorbaiter

    gatorbaiter Medium Load Member

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    The big thing will be dropping the trailer. But there are plenty of shippers we drop and hook from in the south.
     
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