My dad is a truck driver with 25+ years experience, for the last 3 years he's been with a company running Florida home on the weekend and making around 1500-1700 weekly, the money had dropped nearly half and he doesn't like the up and down, I told him I would try and get him some info sense some of you on here know a lot about different company's I thought I'd ask, he doesn't want OTR something maybe just running florida home on the weekends can be discussed I don't think it's a make or break, but he would like to stay in Florida, no flat bed exp he has his hazmat, and has been hauling chemicals around the state for 3 years (no tanker) I'm trying to cover it all, like I said I'm just trying to help him out, maybe give him some info on a better company, he's used to making I'd say 1500 weekly, I'm sure if he could get that STEADY and just run florida he'd be happy! Thanks for any info!
There's the usual ltl advice but your father has been doing this for over 25 years and ltl wants you to be a dock worker for a few years before all you do is drive at the job and at your father's age I doubt he wants to do that. I'll take a guess in say he doesn't want to touch freight at all at this point in his career. Don't know where your father lives in Florida but Norfolk Southern has an intermodal terminal in Jacksonville Florida, CSX has an intermodal terminal in Jacksonville, Tampa, and Winter Haven. Intermodal (rail side) has both local and regional jobs with it. It's no touch freight either and you can make 70k a year doing. So it's something maybe your father should check into.
Yeah good luck making $1500 a week in Florida. I lived in the Tampa market for 20 years and never seen anything close to that.
Thanks a lot I will tell him about that,also he doesn't mind unloading he does it now with his current job
