Can you do part time trucking?

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Part time jobs are generally there for the asking. Employers don't pay benefits or overtime to part timers so they are an good business investment. I myself work two seasonal jobs -- one with a firefighting outfit on government contracts in the summer, and another in the winter delivering heating oil. By the way, my 69th birthday is next month...lol. Go for it!

 

There is part time trucking through temp agencies, but you need experience, a majority of the clients require at least 18 months experience and be proficient in driving a manual transmission.

 

I'm sorry to BASH on the OP but this is exactly the problem with the image of the current truck driver. Just like my Mother in Law would say, " you only hold the steering wheel, how hard can it be".

This mindset goes up all the way to management, which is why drivers are cheap to hire and let go.

 

Bingo, my ex-wife too, "oh you just sit there, the truck does all the work, how hard could it be?" She wasn't around when I unloaded containers full of truck tires, bitxx. Anyway, you can't blame people, and just shows how desperate it must be, if granny can't find anything to support herself, and would even think of this. One thing, gonna get a lot worse before it gets better.

 

I am sorry to have to say it, but I sadly agree. I will take a bit of an exception to that "cheap to hire" comment. In the case of the megas the infrastructure they have built to comply with all the regs is not cheap. They spend millions each and every year.

 

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So, as far as non hazmat dry van generally drop and hook freight is concerned, what exactly is so “hard” about it? Frankly, after figuring out how to make the combination go backwards AND where you want it, I’ve found the job is pretty simple. You hold the wheel, keep it between the white lines and even then a buzzer barks at me if I fail at that. What I suppose could be “hard” is consistently getting out of the sleeper at 4am to beat big city traffic and assure a day ends early enough to find parking. I guess at times it’s “hard” to remain professional at shippers or receivers that fail to demonstrate an ounce of consideration for your on time arrival and effort or an appreciation for the fact you might have something else to do. I guess it’s “hard” to do a thorough pre-trip in the dark with a sheet of ice below your feet and single digit temperatures. I guess it’s “hard” to maintain your focus on the road when you’re in Deep South Texas, the mariachi zone, where everything on the radio is in a language you can’t understand. I guess it can be “hard” to manage your day whereby you remain not only compliant with DOT regulations but also meet the expectations of your employer. I guess it can be “hard” emotionally if you have loving friends and family at home with whom you’d like to spend more time.
Have I been fatigued at the end of the day and fallen face first into the sleeper for 10 hours? Yes! Have I ever felt this job (dry van OTR) was “hard”, like required bone and muscle numbing physical strain and effort or higher intellectual capacity other than adding numbers up that hopefully are equal to or less than 80,000? No. I just don’t find the job meets the threshold of “hard”. Look around you at a truck stop sometime at your fellow associates. Do you see Ivy League bumper stickers on the back of their trailers or any indication they have been to the moon? All I see is “trump 2020” scrawled in filth.

 

If you have not figured it out by now, you are never going to! With that, I'm out of it!

 

This guys giving away all the secrets and everything we hold dear, let's get 'em, boys,,,I know, it's really not that tough of a job, especially what you describe, heck, it's why most of us went into this line of work, I couldn't believe I got paid to do this, HOWEVER, it's no place for grandma, and if it wasn't for power steering, most women wouldn't do the job either. ( Not sure I'd want to tangle with a grandma that could steer a manual steering truck) There are times, even in the cushiest of trucking jobs, it's gonna be tough. Can't pull a 5th wheel pin, have push a dolly in place, just life on the road, I haven't seen too many grandma types.