What Trucking job is right for me!?

One of my favorite local driving job was pulling a lowboy for a construction company, it was also my first gig in a truck, and I worked long hours, but made decent money too.

 

To be 100% honest with you, because you live in such a small rural location, I don't know if any local job will give you what you want...because you really don't have anybody you can deliver to. There can't be that much work for such a remote area.

Next time you see your local mailman, ask him about the job. Most likely, you'll be working out of where they work out of if it's still an option. So they can answer any of your questions about what it's like around your area.

I don't know if LTL P&D would be any better either. There can't be that much freight going in or out of your location. No customers means no freight, which means little to no work.

Probably the same thing with the RSR job. You need customers to make money. But if you do move to a more populated area, I would go with bread delivery instead of chips. Frito Lay has some union and non union depots. So pay and benefits may vary. Plus, I heard Frito Lay made a lot of changes and cut their pay drastically. Same with Frito Lay truck drivers. Franz or Bimbo Bakeries would be my choice as a RSR driver. Both are union jobs, so you'll get excellent free healthcare. Plus, most of them average around $80-100k + a year.

 

Time and a half after 8 hours and double time after 12. Made about 50k with overtime.

Frito lay would similar but a little different from beverage distribution.
I didn't like merchandising the stores and building displays. My main issue was the company I worked for.

 

Am actually a line driver out of Portland and work at nights. Like I said all major LTL have yards down but most only have openings for line driver to move trailers out of their hub(meet point). Peninsula does have an opening for city Driver. Call them up and ask ?s before applying. Old D and saia pays the most but they don’t have openings for city driver down there though. P&D job is really easy and am pretty sure it’s laid back down there in Medford. Peninsula is Monday to Friday and guaranteed 8hrs even if you work 5 you’ll get 8.

 

Propane in this area.

in bad storms they call for the stuff regardless of cost.

Governor signs edict allowing these to run until they drop in war footing in bad winter time. including pricing to legal max w/o gouging.

 

In case you want to know what RSR is all about, here's a video on what a bread truck RSR driver normally does.....



The guy in the video seems to work out of a distribution center. Normally RSR drivers have to load the bakeries themselves before heading out. If you work out of a depot, usually the depot workers will load it up for you, which makes it a little easier.

Here's what a Franz bread truck looks like.....


And here's what Bimbo Bakeries bread trucks look like. They're the largest bakery in the U.S. So they'll have all kinds of different pictures on the van.....