OTR not for me. How Do I get into LTL, Linehaul, FedEx, etc?

I could make more loading and hauling local milk loads again. But out here in dairy co-op cartel land, that usually means a different start time each night and dealing with the "5/2, 5/3" schedules all the milk haulers around here tend to follow.

I'd go for the JB Hunt gig. But unfortunately, the recruiter is asking to get smacked over the phone because again, "I don't live in the area they're hiring in. Call us back when you move there". Then you move there and get rolled because the job's no longer there.


All in all, I just want to hurry up and get my pickup truck paid off so I can downgrade to like a Yugo or something. Off topic, but a crew cab doesn't fit my asocial, introvert personality. Just part of moving on and getting rid of harsh memories. I just need enough income to take care of rent and some college courses and I'm good. Maybe supplement my Model train hobby as well. Go to work, go home, and seal it up. Yeah, I'm a boring person too.

 

Yes I do understand all that. For me anything like that is just a stepping stone to LTL/Extra board/line haul. I’m probably too old for the really heavily labor intensive food distribution jobs anyway. Just looking to finish my 6 months so I can begin applying to FEDEX and year for the other companies. If I end up with one of the jobs that are 3-5 days out, that’s fine as well. It’s not a month out and 4 days home!

 

Yea I’m not built for OTR. Want to hear something funny. When I hit a 3 hour driving point I’m DONE. In other words I hate driving for more than 3 hours and that’s it. I get tired and antsy. People say ‘you’re a darn truck driver’. Well yea but.... People think truck driving is OTR. Currently if I drive more than 120 miles trip that’s a lot.

 

I'm good for driving 8-10 hours. It's hunting down a parking space and not sleeping in my own bed each night that irks me. 3-4 nights out and I'm ready to get back home. Of course after that 40 hours of waiting on a clean tanker after my one load last week, I've got nothing right now.

Guess the "rage app fill out" might be catching up with me again.

 

Little Joey is important, brah! Money ain't everything! So big deal if ya got to take him to practice in a 10yr old car vs driving a brand new F250!

 

Soooooooft.

 

You can apply to any ltl outfit you find. People don't want to do the work anymore, so you'd be surprised by what big names might be willing to hire you on. I was with UPSF for only about 4 months before I had an opportunity to slide into linehaul. Each terminal is different of course, but the opportunities are there. You just gotta go and grab them!

 

The parasites from the west coast and northeast are descending upon the last good places of America like a cancer. Them being able to work from home now is only making the spread of the cancer that much worse cuz now they can move to anywhere they want and still make their living using their computer. It's also driving up property values all over which is icing out good people from being able to buy right now.

 

At risk of posting an extremely unpopular opinion...

I'd typically empathize with the plight of those in the remaining good parts of the country during the onslaught of West Coasters and New Englanders fleeing tyranny, because I cannot stand the majority driven social and political ideologies of these regions.

However, I no longer don't. I'm not a native New Englander, and I've only lived up here for 10 of my 30 something years on the planet.

As the years go on when I contribute my perspective on various topics, firearm, political, social or otherwise and how day to day life in Massghanistan is affected by any of those topics, I've more often than not been met with the "if it's so bad, move" mentality and many variants of that.

Funny how so many people just think that moving to New Hampshire to escape the iron curtain of Taxachusetts/Massghanistan solves the problem (NH and ME are dealing with their influx of MA/NY/NJ/CT residents pulling up roots now). People in online places I frequent like to make fun of us in left leaning states as a result of it (this forum is one AWESOME exception to that statement). But the consensus is usually the same... "move, escape to a free state", hardly ever do I see someone advocating to stay, fight and organize a grassroots campaign to right many decades of political wrongdoing.

Well, at this point, those that have ruined West Coast and New England states are having similar gripes, and are getting the same advice... to move and they're acting on it.

 

Modern day nomads. I wouldn't consider myself "right wing" much either. I just needed a change of pace and only got out of CA because it was too crowded and "young" for me. Unfortunately after eight years out here in small town NM, I'm quickly finding I'm not a fan of the industrial agriculture and how the trucking jobs are tied directly into it.

At least I gave rural living a shot and found out it's not working. Now I've got the actual desert calling me again. Plenty of flight schools and a community college with a sustainable agriculture program in Phoenix. I'm the introverted freak show that attempts to stick my mission and decide the next course of action from there.