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You don't want a 2 1/2 hour commute for a local job.

12 hours in the truck, 1 hour on either side of the day in the office/warehouse, and a 5 hour commute per day. A terrible existence.

For a local gig, you want the shortest commute as possible. 2 1/2 hour commute would be nice for a regional run where you could get home Friday night and leave out Monday.

 

The driving distance to your local job is as far as you can tolerate. I'm not sure what 5/2 means. Is that work 5 days and off 2 days? And you would be commuting back & forth 2.5 hours 1-way? You'll get very tired of that if it's a daily commute. But, if you can tolerate it, or the cost of living closer is too expensive to consider moving, then that's what you do. We have a new driver where I work, home every day. He commutes 1.5 hours per day to drive 10 hours at work. In 2 weeks he's already tired of it. But our most senior driver, been here at least 20 years, commutes 120 miles 1-way every work day.

Commuting 2.5 hours once a week or every few weeks wouldn't be too bad. I'd first consider trucking company close to you and then look farther away if there are none or they are not hiring.

 

Distance? If I was in Fairbanks AK and there was a Texas FFE Tractor sitting there for my work I'll do it. Distance matters not to us. It matters to the company when they spent 85K on fuel on us nationally in 2001.

 

That distance thing depends on the company and their policies. A company like Greyhound has minimum requirements because if you work the local board and are needed they want you right now, not 3 hours later. Some local trucking companies work close to the same way. Don't get all that excited over this. If you like a company apply. If there will be a distance problem it will be discussed with you during the interview.

 

I ##### about by 15 minute total round trip commute.

....this guy wants to drive 2and a half

*chuckles*

That honestly wouldn't be that bad if you were home for your 34 hr break and it is triple what you can make at home.

50 miles from a terminal is pretty standard hiring protocol for local. And that's pushing it.

 

I actually spoke with a very big local company years ago near south of DC which would place me over a hours commute one way into the teeth of aggressive rush hour twice a day. On top of a potential maxed out log day local work.

They wanted to hire me on condition I moved to northern Virginia so that the commute was 15 minutes max. I thought it over very carefully but passed on it because it's a big step moving to join a company. Much later I will do that in life but it was not a problem then emigrating from MD to AR.

 

For OTR companies pay for your transportation .If you choose to take your car you will get reimbursed up to how much say the cost of a bus ticket is.For local you don't wanna commute more then an hr to and from your job,tje cost of gas adds up not to mention the wear and tear on your vehicle.

 

If your OTR, and you take the truck home, it doesn't really matter. But for local, I personally wouldn't drive more than 45 minutes one way to work

 

Especially now that winter is coming.