How close do you live to your trucking terminal? How important is that?

I'm 950 miles from my companies yards/offices. I wish they had a shop in texas so I could have the truck worked on while at home.

 

This topic is what actually is making me consider not going with Schneider. Terminal is over 50 miles away and the I-5 gets jammed on more than 1 occasion. No way am I leaving a company truck parked at a truck stop unattended. Especially starting out as a rookie.

 

Same..... 6 miles away

 

About 2 miles from the terminal where we've got the shop, some trailers and trucks, and the administrative/safety functions.
About 8.5 miles from the cheese plant where dispatch and most of the main business for the terminal occurs.

Most of the time I could ride my bicycle down to the terminal and fetch an open daycab and trailer from there and start my night.
Very rarely do I have to ride all the way down to the plant.
If I do I typically latch the bicycle to the back or put it in the cab and just take it back to the main terminal before heading out to a dairy.

Like any job, I always like to be close to it as opposed to making it into a grand commute.
You drive all day or all night, some of us kind of not want to drive any more on off-time.

 

There really is a good point to all this.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

35 miles, one way. When I did Long Haul (OTR), I had to park the rig where ever I could, and frankly didn't like it. To park at a terminal or in my case, the customers site is a God send. If the truck needs service, Penske down the street from us goes there and get's it or I drop it off.

Same for trailer repairs, I call my boss, he sends out a shop service.

I think the actual importance falls on the company one works for. If you work for a company far, far away and you get home time, how does the truck get serviced on that time, as opposed to say, having to go to a terminal, waiting several hours, or switching out trucks..??

 

I now live 1.5 miles away, about 5 minute commute

 

I live about 15 minutes from the yard if I go direct from my apartment. More like a half hour if I detour to say goodbye to my kids.

 

1,950 miles one way

 

50mi Inglewood CA by LAX all the way to Ontario CA by Ontario Airport.

I take a plane to and from work.
#### you traffic!