The ideal company... does it exist?

Seriously? ... You have a whole two years experience and you want it all. You want to work for someone else but make your own rules, lol. I can tell you one thing for sure, stay away from reefers, you won't like the appointment times

Sounds like you need to buy your own truck, book your own freight and then you can do as you please.

Or you can find a decent company with more good than bad and deal with it.

Good luck with your search, your going to be there a while

 

Have you thought about going with an LTL company working a line haul?

The equipment, miles, and pay are good. The rest of your wants are covered because your home every day, or 2 days max.

If you don't want to do that it's still not a bad short term option because you get a feel for the good smaller outfits in your area.

 

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As far as running legal, I totally agree, I took it out of context, my bad.

Bottom line though, you have to take the bad with the good. There arent any perfect driving jobs, it's trucking. Find a company that you can live with and make the best of it.

 

That's true!

Good luck with your search.

 

They're out there the problem is you need to be home enough to find one. If your always 1000 miles form home it's hard to find a good local outfit.

To be honest many of the smaller outfits will run you slightly outlaw, but not dangerous.

Finding a good place takes a lot of effort, your not going to find what you want by putting in apps with the 300+ truck companies. Or at least your not going to find that in my neck of the woods.

 

Good luck with your search. You just have to find a company where the good outweighs the bad. None are perfect, but that does not mean there are not good ones out there.
It may take awhile, but you will fit one that will fit most of your needs. Don't give up driver.