Need to drive nights

LTL companies.....linehaul. Pay is outstanding, and you drive at night.

 

Any reefer outfit with meat customers and delivers to grocery warehouses all the time. I talked a driver once who left Navajo because he couldn't handle night driving.

 

Reefer is indeed a good business if you like running nights. Detention can be a factor however, and could be tough to have a set time freed up every day.

 

Opus is correct. LTL linehaul runs at night (I worked for various companies for a combined 20+ years). Some companies you run from here to there, work the dock and then run home. Some you run here to there, meet another driver, swap wagons and run home. Others you go out for a week at a time.

Estes is one such company. I worked there 2+ years before I bought my own and if I ever sold it I would likely go back. I have been to 73 of their yards from Salt Lake City to Harrisburg PA. From Buffalo NY to Temple TX. You are out 5 days (not always M-F I worked Tue- Sat) and home 2. I liked it because I would get home Sun AM and not leave again until Tue night, so really its like having 3 days off... They put you up in motels. Some of them are pretty good, others are terrible (Chicago) but over all, I liked it. Linehaul at Estes doesnt work the dock. Hook and book...

 

Keep in mind, most nighttime LTL shifts are close to 11 or 12 hours. If you are used to starting at midnight, you more than likely will not clock out before 10 or 11 the next morning. Most LTL companies will run your 60 or close to 70 hours in 5 or 5 1/2 days(or nites).

 

Wherever you live, you need to see who all is located around there. Research them. Then, go find out who the transportation manager is. Once you have a name, you can call them and ask to speak to that person. Once you establish that contact and put in your online application, that person can be looking for it.

UPS is going to be your best option, of anyone. No one pays better or has a better benefit package.

If you have a Dot Foods around you, they’d gladly take you on for nights. However, inward facing AI camera is a huge negative. $100K+ a year. Great benefit package.

Where I live, all the LTL companies can have you on the road by 8pm and off by 8am.