Are There Opportunities To Drive Full-time In The Summer And Weekends During The School Year?
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Well, Professor Dave, larger companies won't be interested. They prefer their drivers to be on the road for weeks at a time, though there are some jobs where you even get home every night. True vacations (you know, two weeks in Colorado) are almost nonexistent.
Local companies may be interested in a seasonal helper, especially agricultural.
Starting off with no CDL-A big rig experience is not helpful either. There is a huge demand for drivers, but not part time ones.
The same goes for driver trainers: at least a year or more OTR exemplary experience, and it's not seasonal either.
As for solitude, truck driving and fire lookout jobs are the way to go. But fire lookout work is obsolete now.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
OTR:
Over The Road
OTR driving normally means you'll be hauling freight to various customers throughout your company's hauling region. It often entails being gone from home for two to three weeks at a time.
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Are there any opportunities for someone in trucking who is nearing the end of a 30+ year career teaching economics at the high school level who would be free in June, July and August to drive full-time (do trucking firms hire "substitute" drivers for covering vacations, illness, births of children and or deaths in a family?) and available beginning on Friday afternoon until Sunday evening. Our last child of 5 will graduate from high school next month and I have always had an interest in truck driving. (After 30+ years in the class room with today's youth, the solitude of the highway is increasingly of interest.) Just wondering if maybe some firms employ some drivers on a part-time, emergency or as needed basis? I did own and operate my own driver-training business for 16 year-olds so becoming a trainer at some point may be a niche of interest to both me and a trucking firm? Thanks for your insight and assistance.