Some job hopping and a year in a charter bus has sunk me

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Voyager1968, Jan 27, 2020.

  1. bentstrider83

    bentstrider83 Road Train Member

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    Might as well just call this job either "truck babysitting", or "truck stop maneuvering specialist" when it comes to the "local vs. long haul" debate.
     
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  3. Voyager1968

    Voyager1968 Road Train Member

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    I missed that post somehow. Sorry.
     
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    I gave you several leads; check them out. Good luck. Best wishes!
     
  5. Voyager1968

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    Thanks Chinatown. I somehow missed almost that whole page...
     
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    @Voyager1968 I had the same troubles when I decided to take a break from local work and go OTR for a few months. Clean license and stable job history did not mean anything, they wanted to see I had been sleeping in a truck rather than driving a day cab car hauler in and out of NYC every day. The next time I decided to take a break and do some OTR, yes OTR is a break for me, I had been running heavy wrecker and even remarked to several recruiters (before I found one willing to hire me) that it was funny that I am the guy they call when their OTR driver messes up and I can tow their tractor and trailer as a unit behind my 40 foot wrecker but they can't hire me because I don't have recent OTR experience.

    Now to help you out, if I recall correctly you are in NE PA, Susquehanna County area. Are you dead set on OTR work? If not Linde Corp in Carbondale is looking for local hourly drivers running mostly flatbeds or vacuum trailers out of their rail yard. Mostly oil field and construction support work. They also will be looking for dump truck and RGN equipment haulers in the spring when the construction season starts up again. Decent equipment and no micromanagement, still on paper logs since most of their work is local.

    Call their Carbondale office 570-282-1490 during regular business hours, ask for Larry and tell him Brian R. said to call. No, I don't get anything for it, just trying to help out someone local to me. I do not work for them, did about 10 years ago, and have stayed in touch with a few friends including the boss.

    As a last resort you could try Fox Ledge Spring Water in Honesdale, their busy season is about to begin and they would surely hire you. Local work, some sleeper work available, delivering truckloads of bottled water to grocery warehouses and such. I worked with them for two summers as extra income, not tough job just not the greatest. It would get you back into a tractor trailer so that you could move up to what you want to do again after some time and they wouldn't require a refresher or anything like that. 570-448-9000 Home -
     
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  7. Voyager1968

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