"Home Daily directly out of school? Is this realistic?

well, honestly in my experience, "Home daily" means exactly that......you're home during the day. Which may or may not sound great until you understand that the rest of the world is spinning during the day while you're trying to get some sleep. It will make you old quickly.
Can you get a "Home daily" job straight out of the box? It depends on where you live. In some markets there are multiple opportunities to be home daily. In others, not so much. Look around. Do you see multiple billboards advertising for drivers? If so, you're in a good spot.

My best advice is this......rather than go to school and hope on the other end, find a place where you want to work and ask them what they need and proceed.

The basic answer to your question is 'yes', you can get a home daily job straight out of school.

Good luck and happy trails.......

 

Home daily is a challenge.

When I did Bulk Im gone 16 hours. It took a hour each way to commute. Day starts at 2 am. Truck is rolling by three. It aint stopping to around 5PM or later depending on situation. You get maybe 6 hours sleep.

You have a baby coming. The biggest problem is your spouse or girlfirend is going to feel that it's all on her to mind the baby. Eventually that will bust up your situation at home when she gets fed up with it.

What really made the situation bad for me was doing battle in DC metro. Either downtown core or beltway. Several itmes a day, morning rush, lunch rush, afternoon rush with motor cades punching through. You think those #### things aint getting past that pile of stopped lanes but when they show up... it's Moses coming through the parted ocean.

 

Home daily sounds great at first until you realise what they really meant was "home daily just long enough to sleep for 4-6 hours and get straight back to work."

 

Yes,in many instances this is true but not all.........OP it can be done,just like has been mentioned. It just depends on your location.

 

I can attest to this! Go to bed 8:30pm just to be back up for 2:30am. Home daily is great but be expecting to work 11+ hour days for sure.

 

Can you get a home daily job right out of school. The short answer is yes. As stated, depends on your location. Just be ready for 12 to 14 hour work shifts. You will start with the runs no one wants.

 

It depends on where you live. Some place in the country have more of those sorts of jobs than others, of course, but even on the local level, if all the trucking companies are an hour away from you, it doesn't really matter for a regional/otr job, but if you have to drive an hour each way to work and back every single day then 13/14 hour days get that much worse.

 

I start at 5am and most days I’m clocking out around 12:30 pm (paid for 8 hours minimum no matter how many I work). About once a week I’ll be out till about 3:30 pm. But that’s pretty much by design since I’m paid hourly and get time and a half after 8 hours. Gotta get a little OT every week.

I’m not saying the guys who claim local work was nothing but work and sleep are lying. I’m just saying that hasn’t been my experience. The quality of local work depends 100% on your area. If you live in a major market, you’d be nuts to go OTR (unless that’s what you enjoy). In a major market you’ll make much more than OTR and not be worked to death. But you better be able to drive!!! That part is no joke!

 

What's a major market