What Trucking job is right for me!?

You will want to do whole truckload OTR. That way you calculate the miles, pay, set aside a little for expenses, put rest into savings and enjoy your run across the USA, Regional or what have you. As long you are on time all is well. (That is the big thing, most people cannot get across town to be on time to doctor, and here we are doing it across the USA)

The jobs you listed will wear through your youth in short order. All of them are going to be demanding of your time. The one you think of the potato chip people, take a look at your local food store in the morning when that chip truck arrives. He's all hot and bothered with lather throwing chips into the shelf and inventorying. He has no time for you.

And a potato chip load to a place that fills 100 of those little trucks in the morning. YOU will be unloading them after waiting for a dock.

Its not the driving that kills these days, it's the lost motion, lost waiting and so many other losses.

I have done pretty much every one of those you have listed at one time or another with exception of UPS home delivery. If you stand inside their little warehouse looking for that package in their lost rack listening to the blue language of the people inside pushed for time, it's not for me.

I don't know what else you will do at 2 to 3 hours driving blocks, in the old HOS hours rule you could run 4 hours and sleep 5 and repeat until your 70 is burned up last 8 days. Those days are gone forever.

You will be dealing with your truck most of the time while awake if not actually doing something with it. The more you can pace yourself and leverage your youth into running 600 to 1000 mile days in a steady manner while taking breaks and resting when required (Today's trucks are pretty nice more or less)

Your biggest problem is your dispatcher. If you find the right one alls well. If not? You will not be happy.

 

Do you have any experience other than the dump truck when you were 19?
Where is your location?
Do you still have your CDL?
If so, do you have endorsements?

 

Beverage company. Pretty much any job like you describe is going to be physically demanding.
Bread delivery.
fuel delivery. local /residential
propane delivery
Fuel tanker/ local business.

 

A family with babies etc means local. So throw out what i said about OTR.

Even if you have a A license you can run anything that is not a Motorcycle. You could even look into airport tanker operations if there is a field that does not rely on a tank farm with pipe delivery to aircraft at gate. It will be routine.

Another would be milk hauling. But I suspect your area does more materials than anything so that means dumps.

Who knows. Good luck!

 

You can have a family if you want you just got to be dedicated. I have a new family wife new baby and I stay out a minimum of 5 weeks at a time usually 8 weeks and take a chunk of time off. My wife doesn’t have to work and money isn’t a issue for us when I come home we do nothing but have fun I use video chat on the regular. Most people’s parents are divorced and the kids are tossed around. It’s really how hard you want be there and be a good family man , many OTR truckers have a family and make it great. Local is basically just like they see everyday but they see you sleeping that’s it. Don’t be scared of OTR. I’ll more than likely never do any other type plus I doubt local pays like OTR with experience.

 

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