Looking for local work

You can try a few places.

The yellow pages under Freight or something like that might yeild the names of local haulers. If you have been driving that long then you may look into local tanker jobs, oil companies etc...
Also check you local unemployment office, they often have job leads for the local area.
Check the internet as well, there are a lot of truck driving job sites and let you post your resume and these can sometimes yeild a company or two looking for drivers locally.
Produce companies and beverage companies are also something to look into.

Good luck!

 

You might find something closer to Chicago/Milwaukee, but Rhinelander is wwaaaayyyyy up dere......

 

look into LTL, home every day and good pay.

 

I've talked to several Estes drivers that are quite happy with their jobs - but I also know some Conway drivers doing local that are pretty happy as well. I don't know what's available in your area, but I encountered many o/o's hauling rock/dirt/sand/whatever locally that were making very good money and were home every day.

 

at conway, when starting out you will do some dock work when not driving. that is why i turned them down among a few other reasons.

look into estes, odfl, saia, abf, fedex, among others. i got a list of every LTL company out there if you want it. i would post it but i don't know if it allowable. if it is i'll shoot it up.

 

The Estes drivers I had talked had quit jobs at other LTL companies because those companies had eliminated overtime. Estes was still giving overtime and I think THAT was what was making several drivers I had talked to happy.
Basically, the store I haul out of has LTL drivers/full freight and owner operators coming in there on a daily basis, I frequently get opportunity to talk to a lot of them, how happy or unhappy they are, etc. Our company deals in product that for the most part, only trucks can haul, and uses all KINDS of different trucking companies to bring the product in from all over the place.

Some drivers are very tightlipped about their companies, others are quite liberal with their likes and dislikes. Amazingly, this UPS Freight line has a lot of drivers that are very happy with what they are doing and how much they are getting paid. I'm not talking UPS vans, I'm talking their freight division using both vans and flatbeds alike to haul product from our rather large distribution centers to us - us being a lot of rather small stores all over the country, compartively speaking.

Out of all of them, I would have to say that those UPS drivers on regional runs and these Estes drivers on LTL runs are the happiest.

 

Start paying attention to all the restaurants, fast food, and small mom and pop grocery stores in your area, and try to catch the drivers delivering their supplies. They're usually local or regional drivers. If they're regional, you're out 2 to 4 days tops, then you're back home again. On the phonebook, or www.Yellowbook.com, look up "driver leasing" and "work temp agencies." If there's a warehouse distribution near you, you might want to consider applying as a yard goat hostler driver as well, where you spend the whole shift just moving trailers around. If its a 24-hour warehouse, they might start you off working the graveyard hour shift. Try to research where the nearest Walmart Distribution warehouse is, and you should put an application /resume with them as well. On a search engine, Yahoo / Google "local driving jobs" to find more leads. Check out www.monster.com, www.hotjobs.com, www.careerbuilder.com, and other "job listings" that come up when you do a search. These job sites will require you to submit a resume online; don't give your social security number, or your date of birth. Just giving your name, city, state, zip code, and contact number or email address will suffice.