Why did you quit OTR

Use the points on your Pilot/ Flying J card.

 

May bad, I have to fuel at Petro so I’m stuck with points for...showers and parking? Lol

 

Call me crazy, but I like OTR

 

So did I, kept me away from home lol

 

Better question: why do it in the first place?

 

Some people just like it better. We used to do some OTR work and one of the drivers requested to stay on it and to stay out as long as he could. He worked for us over twenty years. Good driver, Top hand.
When we got out of the OTR work he tried our local stuff for about two weeks and then he quit. He said the money was fine and the benefits were great but he just would rather stay out for for weeks at a time away from home.
He took a job with COTC...less money and inferior benefits...and the last time I saw him he was really .happy with it.
You guys already know the punch line to this. We ran into him and his wife at an Elks Club shindig. After meeting his wife I can understand why he wants to stay gone.

 

Different strokes for different folks ....I did the line haul ltl gig and the food service thing years ago and worked with some good people .
I however am happiest with my own truck leased to a good carrier running dedicated lanes for the same customers...and calling my own shots with the ability to say yay or nay.
That's the good thing about trucking , its many faceted with something for everyone.
Many otr people would be bored to tears with what I do ...same places and lanes every trip .

 

I spent too much money on a nice home and bed to not enjoy it. I could maybe manage a regional deal but I think day cabs are just cooler looking lol.

 

Other way around for me. I went back to OTR from everything else. OTR is like a vacation to me.