At a crossroads.

I think Dave should look into the LTL companies or see what local jobs are open there might be some shuttle job where he takes trailers from A-B all day.

Trucking is kind of repetitive in a way and some jobs are like conveyor belt work almost take a trailer from A to B drop at B pick up trailer on other side of B's building and take it back to A and then start process over again you may to that process 4-5 times a day.

Great Lakes OTR at Superior Beverage Group is like that distributor to brewer back to distributor 5 runs a day 5 days a week it never changes.

 

Get 2 years in and you can go.anywhere.....get hazmat,doubles and tanker...

 

That's right you have done that sorry my bad.

 

All the more reason for him to try to get back into that line, right?!?

 

Exactly right. It just depends on the operation the beer company I worked for there shuttle never dropped off no sir. They had a couple different runs, Cleveland to Miller-Coors in Trenton, Ohio and Great Lakes Brewery.

Obviously Cleveland to Trenton was a bigger shuttle run, but it was one to the other. Well supposedly. They got into hauling back haul loads and that kind of made things hard because you would have to go to a place get loaded with bottles take those to Pepsi in Cincy and then unload those and then you could get your trailer of beer for the drive back.

Getting the back hauls screwed stuff up. However true shuttle doesn't work like that.

UPS's Cartage division might be a good start, that's kind of like shuttle only it's more involved because your actually watching freight get loaded and unloaded.

Hell Orland Bread here in Cleveland had Class A CDL job open and I think that was mostly shuttle although they might have some longer hauls to Alpha Baking in Cinncinatti, but that's mostly trailer from the bakery to cold storage back to the bakery.

 

Have you looked at the Bread Companies?
Nickles and Schwebles in Ohio sometimes have job openings for Class A drivers. What you are doing is taking trailers of bread to the Bread Truck distribution outlets. The trailer is filled with bread from the bakery or plant what ever you want to call it and transport it to the distribution point where you unload at there bread truck garage and the step van store delivery guys take it to the store.