Regional driver inquiry

You can hire directly into numerous companies that get you home every weekend. Averitt Express, Maverick Transport, many others. Look at trucking companies near your hometown, then ask which ones get you home every weekend. Getting home weekend will keep you within about 600 miles of the house. Your weekend might only be 34 hours. When I was doing it a weekend meant getting to the yard sometime on Friday (might be very late at night) and delivering at customer early on Mon morning. You just need to avoid the very biggest national carriers. If they are easy to find online, look at another company.

 

Several companies offer what you want.
Do you have endorsements?
Your age; are you over 21,22,23?
Which town/city are you near?

 

I'm no veteran but my opinion is you can make just as much as OTR. My last time with Swift I stayed Regional just because that's the loads I got and I took home $700 on my last check, but before you jump , my first time with them my checks were horrible. I tried when I was new and the closest I could get was these companies wanting to put me on Family Dollar or Dollar General , I didn't take it but thinking about it now I maybe would if I thought I could do it.
Every place is different as far as trucking goes, I live too far away from Dallas to get on some accounts that others who are closer can get like one guy new was able to get on Intermodal straight out of school and those from what I hear can be good. So, it just really depends on your area.

 

Depends heavily on region/commodity and driver demand.

Back in 2004, most of the regional spots at my company consisted of hands that had put their time in with the company - fleet size was <100.

Seek and ye shall find.

 

Plenty opportunity out there for you to get what you want, if you was in the south east I would hire you but I don't run out to tx. Are you looking for dry van, flatbed, reefer. Where in TX are you?

 

Im currently with Maverick, hauling glass on a dedicated. As far as being a new driver and wanting good hometime it was the best option for me. Where at in east tx do you live? I know we have a dedicated outfit out of corsicana, tx. Sometimes you have to wait for an opening but its not a bad idea to get training, etc. Knocked out of the way and drivr otr for a month or two until a spot is available.

 

You could run regional with Millis right out of school. They have a school in Burleson, and I've talked to fee of the Texas regional guys in the past who were making real good money

 

Roehl Transport has several hometime options; check the website.