Intermodal Mobile Fleet 3 weeks out 5 Days home

Yeah, I did intermodal in Atlanta for about a year and a half. Made employee of the month last June right before I went back to tanker. Most of the DBLs there are cool. I never really heard anything out of them except when I needed something the load was missing. They did send me to Savannah and Birmingham to help out a lot.

I don't really have much interest in Chicago during the winter but it's better than all the Maine and PA runs I was doing this winter with a tank. Do you get any say in where you go? I have family in SoCal and lived there for a few years, too, so that could be a bonus. Only been there once in a truck, though.

 

Oh, and yeah, $72k is good money anywhere as a company driver considering Intermodal is a cakewalk. I'm not making near that in tanker even though they claim tanker pays and pays. I don't know why I keep coming back to it. I just get that OTR itch I guess.

 

Well, I applied. Got a conditional offer in less than a minute. Got my set up interview on Monday. Now, I have to get some loads home to prep. I'm stuck in Seattle for the weekend then heading to Chicago where I'll need a load to Atlanta. But there's never loads to Atlanta which is part of why I'm sick of OTR already. Been out since November or something.

 

Yeah, mobile fleet. I just don't want to deal with Atlanta traffic until they get I85 fixed. You can't make money when the interstate collapses. If you can go to Texas I would do that. There's no income taxes there and it'll save you close to $10k a year. Houston is where the big money is.

Local is the same as what you're doing now but you'll go home two days a week. They'll move you to weekends off after a while when someone quits. But they want you to work at least 5 extra days per quarter. The really local, go home every night spots open up once or twice a year. You don't make near as much when you go home every night but it's less stressful and you just do 3 easy short loads a day or move MTs around.

 

Actually I-85 is back open now! http://www.ajc.com/news/traffic/delays-build-downtown-connector-after-reopen/pz8X3l7Ce7mOXLvmNXLzdK/

 

Holy ####. That had to be some kind of record. Just proves everyone else milks road construction for all it's worth.