Local career ? But what type?

If you were going to make your trucking career local what would you do? Food service , line haul, fuel tankers , coke hauler etc?

 

Come hauler? Hmm, must be regional dialect. Well, I'll tell ya', there's no cut and dry answer to that. So much depends on other factors. I did everything and if I was to do it again, probably a regional food grade tanker. Everything else sucks.

 

Whoops must be something to do with the local gay bar

 

Others will chime in later, but they will want to know stuff like, OTR, regional( maybe an overnight) or local, home every night ( or day) Your location, married, family, house, health etc, all those those things dictate if you'll make it or not. Be advised, as a beginner, you are limited to what you will drive for a while. Food grade tanker, for example, is top of the line, and may not hire beginners.

 

I've done p&d and linehaul and they both have their ups and downs. Do you wanna do work mostly or just drive? When I was on the linehaul I would just run doubles out and drop and hook, two nights a week in a hotel. P&D you are pushing pallets in and out more than you actually drive in most cases. Another thing to consider is yard work, I love it because I don't have to deal with traffic.

 

I think the most profitable local thing i could do is probably deliver stone orders to jobsites with a moffet. Everyone here runs flatbed spread axle full loads to yards. Theres tremendous volume of stone going out wholesale, but if the drop cant fit a tractor and doesnt have a loader on site no one can do it. Especially up in the super steep and narrow carolina mountains. Every wholesale quarry around would kick me their shorty deliveries.

I think it'd be a coffin sleeper tandem straight truck just so i can take my time and maybe wait around on an occasional backhaul.

That or open a repair shop and never leave home. Everyone has broken trucks. Id probably start with roadrangers and 3rds then grow from there.

 

Was just wondering I'm otr for now but didn't know if there was an insight. I've heard food service is the least popular for long term

 

Hard on the body if you don't take care of yourself but those guys pretty constantly make really good money.

 

Fuel tankers. Customers are always glad to see you when you show up.

 

I'd vote Fed ex, xpo, ups etc p&d.