Looking for a good local job with a normal schedule for a new driver

What city are you in or near. Many trucking companies have Dedicated work where you serve the same customer on regular runs and even with regular day or night starting times. I did one for almost 18 years. I worked 5 days weeks, until the end, had weekends off. Was home for a week for July 4, Christmas & New Years.

Drive around your city and look for day ab trucks, trucks with no sleeper compartment. Note the names on the doors of those companies and call them. Every trucking company is in need of drivers. Many or most hire new drivers.

 

There's usually local stuff available all the time. Usually anything that has to do with hauling stuff from manufacturing plants to there in-state customers that's pretty much set schedule with most holidays and weekends off.

Food isn't so bad we have guys at my work who have been in the food business for 25-26 years.

Gasoline hauling if you're in that kind of tanker work that usually runs all the time, that's 24-7 never stops.

Grocery Store Hauling from the Grocery Store Warehouse to the Grocery Stores them selves, that's 24-7 business and pretty much never stops also is kind of mediocre pay. Talon Logistics Giant Eagles private fleet pretty much runs around the clock they may take a very brief and I mean brief pause for Christmas and Thanksgiving, but other then that there 24-7 grocery stores get upwards of 3-4 truck loads a day from the distribution center. You might have to unload the trailer, but it's easy.

Fresinious Manufacturing (True Blu Logistics) they are the transport branch for Fresinious which makes Kidney Dialysis and other blood filtering and medical machines. They operate mostly during normal hours, but because Kidney Dialysis centers and other blood services and medical stuff never closes you'll work many Monday-Fridays, but there stuffs all on pallets and lift gates it's not horribly physical.

Companies like DiMateo Cartage and stuff are like what you want. Local Companies that work Monday-Friday serving local manufacturing industries.

Same with like Cleveland Express Trucking they do a lot of LTL work and cartage work in Cleveland, Ohio area.

The companies that have day cabs and are based out of you're town or area in close vicinity are who to call.

 

Good luck, I retired after 15 years as an LEO about 3 years ago, I turned 41 back in November. Don’t know what kind of farm work you have around your area, but I work M-F for a local grain operation that keeps me busy year around. We don’t work holidays and we can work Saturdays if we choose to.
I even worked at Sysco for a short time until I got onto the farm full time, but that wasnt my cup of tea, plus it sucks being the new guy in a union shop. The only good thing that came out of that was I lost 30lbs in a month in a half.

 

Good hours? Try Propane, tankwagon work etc... I’d say if you want good “normal” hours out of the gate, get your Class A and do Class B work. You won’t get rich but you’ll make money. And in my experience, you’ll be more active and lose some lbs. Like @CornStalk said, being new in a union shop sucks along with some ltl yards if you want p&d normal hours. Low man equals less work usually. All just depends on your area.

 

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