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Old Dominion Freight Line - line haul driver
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Be a graduate of a State Certified and Licensed truck driving school, acceptable to Old Dominion and/or have satisfactorily completed the Old Dominion truck driver training program.

 

Airline fuel trucks, outside of the Northeast US big cities is just barely above minimum wage work. I did that for 3 years. Often no CDL is required because the vehicles are not on public roadways. I drove a 12,000 gallon tanker straight truck with nothing but a passenger car license while I was in college. The fuel companies, ASI is one of them, usually have their facility on airport property. ASI is paying $8-9/hr in Nashville.

 

I once interviewed for KBWI through Butler which also has a general aviation side to "The big field" with the big jets.
I think it was fortunate that particular week it did not go through for whatever reason. Ive always thought that if it is not going to be, then so be it. But I was at that time in life waiting for the call to first work which training. However without going into detail, other things came along and here we are.

They would at that time have paid better than what we could get in town where we were minus gas to get there. And who knows. I might still be there in some form. However given with inflation I can see where your information rings true. I believe there is a tank farm there that handles some of the fuels now. I don't know I have not gone through there since 2004.

 

you will work very long days driving a little brown truck.

 

A typical UPS package delivery driver makes around 200 stops per day on average. They're basically P&D drivers, except they don't drive trucks, they drive a van. Next day air packages is their top priority when it comes to delivery, because it's an expedited timely service. Then they'll make business and residential deliveries and make pick-ups as well. Commercial and business pick-ups can be heavy at times, because they have to break down the pallets and hand load all the packages into the van, whereas a truck would just have a forklift driver or use a pallet jack to load the pallets. They're delivery vans have no A/C. That's why you see them driving around with the doors open. They also use a DIAD (Delivery Information Acquisition Device) scanner to scan packages and communicate with management. They'll top out around $40 an hour in 5 years. They do tend to put in a lot of OT, but a new class of lower paid Hybrid Drivers, who are basically combo drivers, are gonna be used to work on the weekends, which may take away OT.

How many stops can vary, as not only will you be making commercial, business and residential deliveries, but you'll also be making freight pick-ups as well. It'll also depend on what bid run your on and what area you'll be working in, and how many times dispatch will cancel or add pickups on your run. It can be anywhere from 6 - 20 stops. You'll be delivering all the heavy, oversized freight that small package can't deliver. For the most part, you'll have to unload yourself with a pallet jack or hand truck using a lift gate when making deliveries in residential areas, or business that don't have a forklift or docks. There's also a lot of bumping docks too, so a forklift driver will unload and load for you, or you may just have to tailgate the pallet to end of the trailer and have a forklift driver take it off for you if there's no dock. Everything is dependent on what type of freight you have and whether they have a dock or forklift to use.

RSR (Route Sales Rep), otherwise known as a bread truck driver, is basically the final mile delivery for bread and chips companies like Frito Lay and Franz or Bimbo Bakeries. They basically deliver and stock the shelves at supermarkets or convenience stores and bring back the stales, retail stores like Walmart, restaurants, put up displays, take orders and solicitate new customers as a salesman. Usually the job is payed by commission, with a base salary and a percentage of everything that is sold. Franz and Bimbo Bakeries are union jobs, so free healthcare and pension is included. Usually you start anywhere from 12-4 am and can be anywhere from 10-14 hours a day. It all depends on what route your on and seniority. First year, you'll probably make around $50k, and after that, over $80k. I know a Bimbo RSR driver that made $130k and only worked 8 hours a day, but he was the senior man, so he had the best run out of anyone.

 

Our UPS drivers in the little brown trucks, handle commercial and banks first in this area, then businesses. Residential last.

Once in a while when you identify with one that comes with tenure route to your place for years, you can catch him in the morning in the banking district and take your package off him truckside, saves him a stop.

Ammunition came via Fed Ex with HM ORM D Diamonds in the form of a light one ton enclosed pickup. Interesting enough some of my ammunition orders would transit chicago yards and down through Illinois. I would keep careful almost hourly watch on those packages because it's Surplus Hollow points meant for FBI, Police and Military, totally banned in that part of the USA.

So there you are driving along, you have some very interested parties waiting for you. It's not a difficult job, you will never get fat. I have to say in my lifetime I have never ever seen a fat brown driver for that type of package delivery.

THAT is a wonderful future benefit defending against health problems of age and weight. Im at 185 and my doctor assessed me by eye as a bit heavy. I would like to be at 160 but don't think that's possible Too much cutting has happened from surgeries. The body tends to swell and pack under it.

 

Lots of LTL P&D jobs down there in Medford, I think all major LTL companies are down there. Will need hazmat with doubles n triples. If your looking to make some serious $$$ do linehaul. Our drivers that run Medford to PDX or PDX to Medford and back make over 100k working Monday to Friday about 11-12 hour days but lots of driving though.

 

Instead of asking here, why don't you look at what's local for you and actually go to these places the see if you fit in, we can't tell what you need, but face to face conversation will help you determine that quickly.

I have a tanker company near me, they dispatch out of there but they have a need for class a drivers to move tankers back and forth from their yard to the place that does the washouts. This company never advertises and doesn't have a website where people apply for a job. there is always a company in every part of the country that needs drivers to move trailers.

 

My son in law got his CDL and moved to Medford with my daughter a couple years ago. Ended up getting a job with the city and is loving it. There are a lot of drivers who live in that area driving the I-5. Not sure how many of those jobs can have you home nightly. You could get a job with a log or chip hauler. Log haulers pay well so I hear but not the chip haulers.