is it legal for an OTR company to require an employee to be a local resident

You want to be that driver that drives from home 400 miles away to start your work day? More power to ya I guess. Just remember, it's been done, and now he's in prison.

 

It doesn’t matter what you think they should do, they can choose to hire from whatever areas they want. Arguing the point on here will not make any difference.

Why don’t you try calling then directly and make your case, they may decide you are close enough for them to hire.

 

What is your angle here?

Are you looking to sue someone? Pissed off because the company won't hire you?

Any time the eoe is brought up it usually means someone got "educated" on how to take advantage of a situation.

 

H O Wolding said I didn't live close enough to the interstate when i lived in NJ you know how wide NJ is?
I believe any company can hire anyone they want or not
besides if they don't want you
why would you want them?

 

I worked for a company like that. Small company, 20 trucks. 1 office, 1 yard, 1 owner, 1 dispatcher, 2 mechanics. I bought a car from the auctions for a few hundred bucks and drove it to work.

True OTR company, used to regularly run from the southeast to Denver, KentWA and TempeAZ. You don't run for a month at a time and come home. It was OUT and BACK then HOME. Even if you wanted to stay out, you didn't. They have their contracts with local manufacturers and have to have so many trucks to cover the contract. So you were going out, and you were going to bring a brokered load home. If they couldnt find a brokered load, they'd deadhead us back 2000 miles.

It's not stupid, its just the way the smaller gigs operate.

 

What is the EOE?

Seriously why do people think that a company who has rules and policies that benefit them and their customer could be doing something illegal by not hiring anyone who isn't living near them?

 

Equal opportunity employer.

A rule that is useful for some but exploited by many. Not unlike most government programs.

 

Sort of like that guy that got bent out of shape and tried to sue Hooters for discrimination because they wouldn't allow him to be a Hooter Girl. I am sure, if he found the right investors, he could start up his own gig, where fruits and fruit flies could flourish, and compete against Hooters in his own place called Pickles.

 

All of our drivers live within 100 miles of the shop. All but one truck is in the yard most evenings. He is the one that lives on the other side of the divide! LOL

If I were to start a company like this one, I would also do the same thing. I want my trucks where I can work on them for the most part. We don't really go all 48 but we do all the western states except CA. Basically we stay west of the Mississippi and mostly in WA, ID, MT,ND,SD,UT,CO and WY..

We spend probably 30% of the time deadheading back to the shop. Usually because we need to get a different trailer for the next load. Lowboy does not work well when you need to haul concrete pipe, can't haul as much... LOL Or like one time I show up to grab a 320 excavator and it turned out to be a 336.

 

I live 5 miles from the shop
green Bay to Ca and back
get twice as much time off as guys dont live in WI
and just as many miles