Best path for newbie: LTL or OTR?

If I had to work that dock to get the job I have now, you best believe I'd be workin' that dock. Sacrificing a few months to get to where you'll want to be for the rest of your career is worth the sacrifice, and that time behind a forklift is a drop in the bucket.

 

I agree.

 

LTL. Many LTL Carriers will train you, just call them and/or research the company. If you’d like, you can still run OTR with an LTL carrier. It pays more than city P&D, and eventually, it can be and out-and-back daily hometime gig. Still will pay more than P&D. Just look into what you really want. If you want to do OTR for a short time, but eventually be local and still make $100-120k/yr... then Linehaul LTL is your best bet. If you want to be home daily and off weekends, then P&D @ $80k/year is your best bet. You can’t go wrong with LTL.

 

That's just opposite for me. Most of the O/O that I know are home every day or every other day. One perk of living in the NE i guess.

I went local right out of the gate with food service