Forgive me....what is an LTL truck driver?

True AND false.

1) LTL may be normal, i.e., that's what a local driver does every day. But it may not be normal in that he picks up and delivers at different places every day. Alicja normally does LTL, but each of her LTL loads / trips is different, as you can see from her YT clips. The differences were, for me, one of the attractions of OTR and OTR LTL; many of my loads were truckload, from A to B. But I liked A B C D E F then G H I J K.

2) Alicja's loads are brokered, most of them anyway, I think. But many LTL loads are probably not brokered: the shipper calls the carrier for a pick-up.

 

I've always assumed she is ... but I don't really know, and one of these days I'm gonna ask her. She seems a lot more free than a company driver would be. BTW, she pulls her carrier's trailers; it's not uncommon for an O/O to just own the power unit (= the tractor). Assuming, of course, that she is an O/O.

 

Yes. In one of her YT clips she was at home doing bookkeeping--fuel receipts, I think. A company driver wouldn't have to do that--he wouldn't have to pay for fuel, he'd just turn the receipts in to his company. Do you like her videos? More than any others I've seen, they remind me of the road. And she's really nice--I've written to her and she answers right back. But really, I don't know much about Alicja beyond that she came to the U.S. from Poland, found and fell in love with trucking 13 years ago, and is still having a good time out there.

 

Man...you guys have it all wrong......LTL = little as in short truck driver....

 

I think Tony's right. I've never seen a tall ltl truck driver.