UPS P&D to Linehaul

Hi all,

Just throwing this question out to you guys for some guidance. I was offered a job with UPS P&D pending my road test and medical. I feel very lucky and grateful for this opportunity since I am a brand new driver with no experience. However, I would like to move over to linehaul at some point down the road. My question is, do you think it will be hard for me to move over to linehaul since I won't have any OTR experience, and would only have the experience I gain from doing p&d? Would I be better served if I just went with a good training outfit for otr now, and then apply to ups linehaul (or saia/OD/etc) at a later date?

I feel that this opportunity is almost too good to pass up. It's a career job with the union. Pay starting out isn't crazy, but there's plenty of OT to supplement until I start teaching top rate in a couple years. I'm 36 now, so I don't have a whole lot of time left before I want to settle in with a company who I can make a nice career with. So my decision to go otr now to get my experience up and better position myself for a linehaul job on a couple years is pretty big. Or do you think taking the ups job now will still have me set-up pretty good to still get into linehaul down the road a couple years from now?

Thanks!

 

That's what I'm thinking. Jump on this opportunity now. I just know the linehaul guys make some good money, although they're running 4-500 miles a day. Just want to put myself in the best spot possible down the road.

 

It is. Union gig, uniforms, the whole deal.

 

Copy that. So not having otr exp won't be a roadblock, you don't think?

 

I'd be lying if I said I haven't thought of when amazon is going to launch their own fleet. They take in 50% of all internet business for Pete's sake. Unless Uncle Sam steps in and busts them up, I can see them rolling out a fleet of semi-autonomous trucks with some drooling goober riding co-pilot in a robot truck playing video games all day, lol.