What's a day in the life of a local driver like?

Sounds like my old schedule when I did FS.

One of the things I like about LTL is that--while we do have to work around closing times and residential availability--we don't play that "not letting you in until" crap. We're here with your freight. Take it now or it goes away.

 

I do P&D for a big LTL company. My day:

0530 - Wake up, shower, coffee.
0620 - Leave for work.
0700 - Clock in and grab my paperwork for the deliveries dispatch gave me. I check it over and put it in order based on the manifest. Then I go to my trailer and make sure it was loaded correctly and that I'm not missing freight or have something I cannot deliver. After pre tripping and getting setup in the truck, I typically leave the terminal around 0730 - 0745.

Depending on where the deliveries take me and how much effort they require (it's a liftgate), I'll typically finish my deliveries between noon and 2pm. Following my deliveries I take my 30 min break, usually at the place I just finished delivering to. I'll do pickups until 1600-1700 or so. Usually home no later than 6pm.

 

Thx for the response. Saved it so I could research those companies. For me being local, think gas or food svc might be the only way. Not too much into the garbage work, unless it's front loader but like you said those jobs are probably spoken for. That why I am trying to find my niche because one I get with a company or gig n like it I want to stay with it and maybe eventually move in mgmt if possible. If not I'd still rather enjoy how I'm driving.
Sidenote Residential garbage doesn't seem to fun.

Small world!!! My home town!!! Twinsburg n Maple Hts

I would have to come out way better than 18.50.

Probably hard to find.

Going to research this. See a lot of Ryder trucks on the road. Not sure who they work for.... or is it Ryder themselves?? Not sure if it local either.

Sounds amazing. What company? How many miles u running in the day/route?

 

Yep yep yep Twinsberg and Maple Heights, I go to Twinsberg every Tuesday and every Thursday.

Um as for Ryder and Penske, both those companies do have logistics divisions that employee there own drivers and do local runs and stuff. If you go on Penske or Ryder's website they have job listings. Penske has an account in Solon, Ohio they use a lot of straight trucks for it, the trucks are refer trucks, but it's not food service it maybe pharmaceuticals, it's a lot of straight trucks you could see what Penske has open.

 

@Craig List
If you're still in Ohio, I would check out FAB express, Streetsboro, Wooster, Ashland and Mansfield they do work for International Paper hauling corrugated board to the customers in the area. The loads are not real heavy and it's all no touch freight anyhow. There advertising on the radio as we speak for help.

It's day time work, all day cab, no touch freight, really not a bad gig the pay is very competitive for what it is if there willing to spend thousands of dollars to advertise for help on the radio, that means they need help and you could probably get in there show some initiative make you're pick ups and deliveries on time, keep you're paper work straight and do stuff by the book and before long a couple years you could be in some kind of management or work as some kind of utility man for management.

Just because a place is advertising doesn't always make the place bad. Why @Dan.S and I were just talking about how people are fickle and they will quit a good thing for no reason. Sometimes people get board and quit good jobs. That's the thing about jobs, once you get the job down you get it down and you know either you can live with it or you get board and quit that's usually what people do.

Trucking in a lot of ways is very repetitive really especially local stuff. There are a lot of truck jobs out there that are no different then pushing a button on the assembly line at Ford.

Back when Orlando Bread was using National Freezer at the Cleveland Food Terminal there was a guy his job was to do nothing, but shuttle trailers back and fourth from the bakery over there on Grand Ave to the Food Terminal a few blocks away. Literally he would take a trailer drive to the food terminal drop the trailer in an open door grab the empty take it back to the warehouse drop that trailer in a door and then go drive around hook up to another trailer and back to the food terminal it was rinse and repeat all day long.

Micelli is another one, they have a day cab guy most of what he does is local runs or shuttling trailers around the yard.

Same thing with like a milk tanker truck go from the farm to Dairymen's a couple times a day.

 

If I could get 11ish hours a days consistently as a p&d driver sign me up

 

If your close to Cincinnati I know of a place that pays around 17 18 an hour but you'll usually work 80+ hours a week I know some old guy there bragging about getting a 120 hours a week

 

Inland Northwest my man. Get good hours now. 65 hours a week @ 25.90. No complaints here but I work at night 2-2/3. If I could land a p&d similar I’d take it to get off the vampire shift and have a slightly normalish schedule.

 

Ryder and Penske have logistics divisions as well as a large truck rental and service division. So seeing a lot of their trucks doesn’t necessarily mean anything. When you see a lot of them pulling the same trailers is a sign they are on a dedicated account.

 

Unfortunately I am in Boca Raton Florida Area now... i am looking for work in that area.
Food service is all i have really come up with....