Is going local as a newbie a mistake?

If you need any help in Canada feel free to drop me a line. If I can help out with directions or anything I will. Good luck.

 

Its just like this, an OTR vet will usually just be more polished as a driver and better prepared to handle varying situations. I would recommend going OTR before doing local, so you can get the experience. That local job will only get you to so far, in trucking you have always got to be thinking "what if" what if this company downsizes and I am let go. You don't have OTR experience, no OTR gig without doing the training gig again and "good" local work is harder to come by. I did OTR for 8 years, then local for 5, back out doing OTR now. I ran for a temp agency, often I would work for a different company each day and my OTR experience really put me way ahead of the other 30 drivers working with me as I usually knew where to go and what to do before getting the daily jobs.

OTR, become a real truck driver first (piss anyone off, well good then)

 

Is that like a chicken with its head cut off circle?

 

Check with a&a environmental. I use to work out of their northern va office, main office is in baltimore. Not much money in containers I've done that as well.

 

If you have to be trained to do that job then you're ahead already. Don't think of what you'll be driving in the future, think what type of financial situation you'll be in. It sounds like your in a good company that has good benefits so take all you can. Once you get trained in this kind of field then you become specialized and you'll have plenty of opportunities to make a great living.

Which brings up another point. Why do you need a company that will work for you when you get tickets? If you get tickets then you're downgrading your chances to retire in comfort. The object is NOT to get any tickets from the start. Don't think it can't be done because I worked right alongside many drivers that hauled gasoline and had perfect records. Some of those guys went on and retired with a million or more in stocks and investments. A couple retired with 30 & 35 years with the same company doing local driving. Forget OTR and make a good living, you're already on your way.

 

Well, at least you have a decent sense of Humor! More polished as an OTR? I drove OTR (Teamed for 4 1/2 years with FFE) with limited or no home time and i can tell you it absolutely prepared me O% for city driving. so in aweeks time, maybe i tapped a dock 6times as an OTR, big deal. Getting behind the wheel at 11pm, turning on the cruise control and driving across nebraska on I-80 is not polished! picking up deviant behavior like urinating in a jug rather than stopping somewhere like a human then tossing the jug out at a Walmart parking lot is Polished?? Taking 5 pullup's to finally back into a dock crooked, leaving mud tracks because you just tore up the next customers property/landscape because there was not enough room for large cars is polished?? Well, at least OTR prepares you for fraudelent log's. I'm glad my employer/terminal manager is not a fan of polished drivers. A city/local driver with years of seniority is worth their weight in gold!!