Most Home time

Local gigs but will need min.of 1 year experience from most local trucking jobs.

 

Welcome to TTR forum. Even the more humous, less informative posts had information. Like the one that said, the ones that pay the least. A 7 on/off schedule at 2700 miles a week at .36 CPM = $25,272. That is equal to a $12 an hour job. I don't know why anybody would enter this industry for that kind of money. Too many sacrfices involved.

It looks like you are starting out, so I'll say that there is a lot more you want to look into first. If home time is that important, think long and hard. In the trucking industry you sacrifice home time for earnings.

Some companies say they'll get you home most weekends starting out. Most want you to stay out 3 or 4 weeks and offer a day home for each week out. Weekends off, if you are lucky enough to get them, may be home Thursday afternoon and leave Saturday night or home Friday night and leave Sunday afternoon. Loads deliver on Monday early and you leave in time to get them there. Often your home time will be in the middle of the week.

Local can be backbreaking delivery work 10+ hours a day, 6 days a week. Sometimes you unload dozens of deliveries or you are a salesman. I looked at dump trucks but I can make more doing HVAC service. Regional is lots of loading and unloading time, fewer miles than OTR and not as hard as local, but it will wear on you and press your HOS limitations. OTR is out 3 - 5 weeks with 3 - 4 days home, less manual labor and more miles and money. You just have to pick what fits you.

IMHO, while OTR has less home time, the quality may be better than many local positions where you're home but too tired and busy to enjoy it. With some companies you might land something regional right off. With others, it might take a while or never come.

Read the "good companies" and "bad companies" section on this forum and get an idea of what company you want to work for and what kind of trailer you want to pull. While doing this you will get an idea what the industry has to offer and what company you might want to work for. You will also see what you will have to give or sacrifice to get what you want. I love trucking but, of the many things I’ve done, it by far requires the most personal sacrifice.