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Aw heck no.. my stepfather also owned a redi-mix plant years ago.. I'm sure nothing has changed in that business.
If I were you, I'd go OTR/Regional home weekly. Sheesh y'all make me tired just thinking about those local jobs. Too much work, not that I'm afraid of working 70 hours a week lol.
Regional:
Regional Route
Usually refers to a driver hauling freight within one particular region of the country. You might be in the "Southeast Regional Division" or "Midwest Regional". Regional route drivers often get home on the weekends which is one of the main appeals for this type of route.
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.
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
What are your long term goals for trucking? Do you live in a climate that would allow, and have enough of a demand to have work year round for a cement mixer? I would be afraid taking the cement mixer job may have a negative impact on you trying to get a tractor trailer job in the future as you'll have no recent experience.
My days of hard work and stress are over. I was military for 18 years. THIS is my non stress career. I get paid to sit and stare out a window all day. I even get to wiggle a wheel, push pedals in and slap a stick around.
I'm with Patrick. I drive a tanker and hooking up hoses is about as physical as I'm willing to get for work. I'll ride my bike or lift for myself but.. Not for work. I'm just now starting to think about local work after a couple years but I'm not real serious about it as I enjoy whom I work for. (Just wish they ran in the south a bit more)
Cement truck... no.. OTR of course!
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.
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
I love my freedom. i can go weeks even months without talkin to my FM if i dont want to. local means dealing with people and bosses and that can suck lol
Fm:
Dispatcher, Fleet Manager, Driver Manager
The primary person a driver communicates with at his/her company. A dispatcher can play many roles, depending on the company's structure. Dispatchers may assign freight, file requests for home time, relay messages between the driver and management, inform customer service of any delays, change appointment times, and report information to the load planners.
Soul K, here's something you said about your job at Coke...
The workload is atrocious!
One of the things that surprises people about trucking jobs is the long hours. I think you made that comment in reference to the physical labor, but you need to realize that most truck driving jobs involve long hours, and generally the local jobs will involve physical labor.
I have ordered a lot of concrete in my former career, and I can tell you that most concrete mixer drivers are big stout men. They work hard, they start very early in the morning, and they spend a good amount of time carrying those big heavy sections of the chute around on their shoulders. It is feast and famine at times for them, and it can be seasonal work due to bad weather.
Most of us here are over the road drivers, but we still work some long hours. It's not unusual for me to work around eighty hours a week. This whole career is very much a performance based business. What we get out of it is entirely based on what we put into it, so having a heavy work load is just a part of the job.
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.
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
You'll also be a lot more weather dependant with a concrete pour than you'll be driving OTR hauling general freight. Heat, cold, snow, etc don't have the same impact out hereas they do a specialized cargo like wet concrete.
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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