100% no touch freight, Home on weekends: Any jobs?

wow wish we all had jobs that payed to play all the time, im an o/o and I don't get payed to sit if the tires are not turning im not earning just like everybody else, another person thinking trucking is all fun and video games l.o.l what a joke,, its hard work if you don't want to work hard then stay working in a factory

 

depending on your part of he country, typically intermodal is 100% no touch or drop/hook, pay can vary depending on the area, but $12 to $16/hr to start is about the norm. But, unless it's company wide, don't expect to only work Monday thru Friday, 1/2 the year that's what I do is 5 days a week, the other half of the year I work 6 days a week, not uncommon to work 10 to 13 hrs a day for 14 days straight.

 

Iv only done been driving a little while like in training still and you could not be more right about it being hard work. At 8 hours your wanting the next 3 hours to hurry up. There are times I stop do my post trip and paper work and just fell out. You so tired when your new food is secound nature then you wake up hungry as crap. And only hope to have time for eating. My dad has become my hero through this experience, he has been a driver 40 years and made it look so simple its not

 

Sorry but I've got to chime in here. All the guys coming on here and telling wannabe's how hard trucking is and it's the toughest thing ever......well, I gotta say, if you are making it that hard you are doing something wrong. Sorry, but it's true. Trucking is not rocket science. Like ANY job, you get out of it what you put into it. If you constantly #####, whine, complain and aren't happy, then to you, trucking is the toughest thing out there. If you are happy doing what you are doing, don't mind the day to day pains in the butt then trucking is not very difficult.

And to the guy looking for no touch, home weekends. Don't be scared away by the doomsday truckers. There are jobs out there like that, you just have to hunt, hunt, hunt to find them. They won't come looking for you. I run 100% no touch, home every night, weekends optional. And I make good money. Good enough in five days that I don't need to work weekends but occassionally throw in a Saturday evening for some extra dough. Also I have no forced dispatch, take only what I want. The good jobs are out there, some are just too lazy to find them. Good luck to the OP.

 

Beware of the "home on weekends" ads. They make you think that you will go home Friday Evening, and leave out Monday morning, but home on the weekends in the trucker world means 34 hours off whenever you get in on a late Saturday night or Sunday afternoon which means you leave on Tuesday or do an 8 day until next weekend.

 

Several intermodal/drayage companies in Nashville, drop & hook. Might even be home every day or every weekend.

Intermodal Cartage Group
TCW
Bridge Terminal Transport
Atlantic Trucking Company
Comtrak

 

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I'm regional, home every night, off every weekend, avg 3200mi/week, and 100% no touch freight but you're a little too far to get hired where I work. Those jobs are out there but you will have to find a smaller carrier and good luck with that if you don't have much experience.

 

Where did OP go?
I never got my questions answered.