Am I insane? Thinking about going back to OTR.

One upside I think OTR has over local is a flexible schedule. I driven tired a lot more doing local work vs OTR.

If I couldn’t fall asleep in my sleeper almost always I had wiggle room to sleep in another hour or two.

Can’t fall asleep when you’re local at least for me to bad to sad.

Don’t get me wrong for my life and situation my local job hauling mail is way better than being on the road but man I hate my schedule.

 

Am looking at all this. I know of an OTR job. But what exactly to call it?
Shorter runs mostly. East of I35. The shorter the run. The more they pay. Under 100 miles is .97 cents a mile. Under 50 they add $16.50 to that. They start adding to base pay at 550 miles. Each hundred category pays more. ... Most often start about 5pm. Run to about 2 or 3 am. Lots of drop and hook.
This does seem to be something I would like. But what do you call it?

 

I know how you feel. I don’t know what area you live in. Have you looked into any regional options? I’m running local with my company now, but I am toying with the idea of going back to regional. Out Monday-Friday, home weekends, assigned truck. I’m a little torn, the only thing holding me back is mileage pay vs hourly, and being away from home because I always have things I need to catch up on. Still, there’s something I miss about it.

 

Are you hauling for just one customer? You can call that dedicated.

 

From all the research I've come up with.
They do alot of moving trailers around for UPS.
They have and continue(?) to do Amazon.
Recruiter told me about 30% of loads in/out of Chicago.

 

It seemed complicated to me at first, until I actually went through it. Now it’s pretty straightforward. As linehaul, we bid on runs twice per year. In the summer that bid also includes tractors. I’m pretty sure my terminal offers new tractors by seniority because we just had a brand new Peterbilt replace a relatively new Volvo.