Coast to coast, upcoast & back dedicated route.. how common?

Probably team freight

 

Lessors Inc. has similar runs like that and they're solo. Nice trucks with APU. They run Pacific Northwest, California, Florida.

 

Mail haulers come to mind. I cant say for sure but those trailers that have the depots marked on them lead me to think they run dedicated routes. No clue if they drop and hook though.

A dedicated route sounds sweet. Part of what I dislike about 48 state OTR is the instability of never knowing where you will be from one day to the next.

 

A driver could do that where I work if he wanted and pressed for it. Lessors, Holland, Magnum, and others that run 48 and focus on longer hauls could at least provide the opportunity but you would have to earn some seniority and expect to break from the normal route on occasion to deal with unplanned circumstances that always crop up.

We do all those lanes regularly but it's just a matter of understanding that you could end up waiting a few days for a particular load and the boss may not want his equipment parked a few days when there's all kinds of other loads that need to get covered.

 

That is correct. Lessors also does a LOT of north/south on I-35 Minnesota to Laredo, TX.---I used to do an Iowa/Minnesota to Laredo every week, and saw tons of their trucks on both ends.
So; as been said...if you want east/west coast to coast only, you'll have to put in some time AND get the right dispatcher.
Companies that have multiple terminals, and/or a Corporate terminal in other regions of the country (aside from your dream southern route) i.e.- Holland in North Dakota, or Lessors in Minnesota, or Magnum in Minnesota---you can bet your behind, you WILL be traveling to and through those states.

If your intention is to never leave the southern route; I would suggest Carolina Cargo---but instead of the up/down west coast, you'd probably do up/down east coast and then across country.

 

Danny Herman Trucking doesn't do the Northeast. They do run coast to coast and stay below I-40. Headquartered in Mountain City,TN and has a terminal as far west as Calexico,California. They run the border towns of Texas a lot and Texas is a "no personal income tax state."
Nevada is good; no personal income taxes; that's one reason I moved there; plus reasonable rent or home purchase prices.

 

Regularly running up I-5 and across I-90 and I-80 in winters is going to often put a kink in your timing. Some of those passes and sections will regularly close to traffic for 24+ hours. Some winters are worse than others.