Advise On Direction To Look For Suitable Company
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Have you looked into cypress? I'm not sure of many flatbed companies that operate that area. I also believe comcar is based in Florida.
Did apply for cypress waiting to hear from them. Never heard of comcar I'll look into that. Looked at cypress equipment lol. Noticed they have spread axle never pulled one of those my trailers are tandem flatbeds. Hope they're not much more difficult than lowboys.
Tandem:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
Steven, Cypress would be a great place to start. They run all over the country, but I'm not sure about their ability to get you home every weekend.
Are you currently paid by the hour? And if so, are you confident you can earn more as an OTR driver? I'm just going to be straight up with you - as an Over The Road driver I do very well, but weekends are when I snag some really good runs. I understand about wanting to be home every weekend, but that can really limit your earnings potential in this job. What I'm getting at is that you should check and make sure you're not just going from the frying pan into the fire.
Also, as you have discovered, very few trucking companies consider a local driving job as experience. OTR has long been the standard that the insurance underwriters are requiring for experience.
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.
Over The Road:
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.
Yes paid by the hour less than 500 a week bring home. And not necessarily every weekend but I did the 27 out 3 home thing I have 3 children. So being out a month at a time is a last resort by no means unwilling if need be.
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Hi all need advice on a few company's to look into been driving for a very small company for a year. When I say small we're talking three trucks. In this year's time I have pulled flat bed and lowboy. But company is not meeting needs financially looking for something where I can be home weekends and make more money. Sadly the ones I have looked into most are not accepting my year of local driving(Florida panhandle)