I've noticed on the job postings they are sometimes listed as OTR Regional and other times Regional, anyone shed some light?
Around here, OTR regional will have you home Friday night or Saturday morning. Regional will have you running out and right back. You might sleep in your own bed a couple nights a week plus the weekend. BUT it depends on the company that you are working with.
Mmm-hmm, sounds like a "be ready for anything" description. Typically, regional is back every day or night, with a possible overnight. OTR regional sounds more like could be a big region, and you could go anywhere. Places I drove for, some drivers would leave on Sunday, be back Tues. night, go out again, be back hopefully by Friday night. It was considered "OTR regional" I wanted no part of. It's a classy ploy to get you in, next thing you know, you're on your way to NYC with a load of diapers. Stay clear from that if you can, and be aware of anything with "OTR" in the title.
Never saw the distinctions before but some Walmart's are out from the DC and right back to it on every load and others "run wild" in a region. Regardless which one the drivers all get home for a "60 hour reset" every week. If they're on a schedule with alternating 3 day weekends that's about 84 hours of home time every other week. Not really a typical "OTR" job but pays a lot better than any of them.
None. We're all "OTR" unless you get a home daily work schedule which only the 20+ year OG drivers get. And you won't always be regional either. I was region 4 but ran region 6 a lot too...
That's DC dependent. We got drivers with less than a year in day cabs going home daily. The rest of us in sleeper cabs get back to the DC nearly every day and some of the sleeper cab drivers actually sleep at home several nights. The popular pick where I'm at though is the 5-2 / 5-3 schedule.
