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Posted: 9 years, 1 month ago
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Hello, 24 year old male here. I am thinking about getting into truck driving. I currently hold a Class B license and currently drive a straight tanker truck, and have about 7 months experience of that. I have been thinking of getting into more of a stable career than what I have now. I do have some questions though.
The area I live in has a HUGE trucking industry, both OTR and LTL transports. I want to attend truck driving school (class starts jan 1) and then get into a driving position. From what I heard though, if you are a driver right out of school, you are most likely going to be going OTR. I heard that OTR drivers are out 2-3 weeks at a time and only home about 5 days, is this true? Is there truth that you can be out a week and home for 2 days? I would definitely not be okay with being home only every 2-3 weeks, but if its possible to be home weekly, I am more than okay with that.
My end goal is to end up working for an LTL company where I either do regional(home ever 2-3 days) or local and be home daily plus saturday and sunday off. Most of those companies require at least a year experience. However, do you think companies would consider my current Class B experience? One of my co workers quit and was hired to a local LTL company with only Class B experience. Also my friend completed truck driving school, worked for a company driving a straight truck for a year and a half and then was hired to an LTL company as a Class A driver.
I just want to get everything clarified before I jump straight into this.
Posted: 9 years, 1 month ago
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Thinking about truck driving
Thank you very much for the detailed reply. I have been looking at jobs and in this area there are a lot of both regional and local jobs. Most of the regional jobs look like they will have you home over 2-3 days, which is something I could deal with for now. There are a lot of companies around this area that strictly do local driving and the pay starts in the $20/hr range which honestly is more than sufficient for me. Most of them from what I can tell have no touch freight as well. Looks like I would be working 10-12 hr days 5 days a week with optional 6th day, but that is fine with me as long as I could get home very day and have a day or two off.