Newbie Here, But Does This Pass The Sniff Test?

Thanks a bunch! I appreciate everyone taking a few moments out to give a little guidance to this noob! It sounds like I should really push for OTR instead of what they offered me initially. I'm going to give them a call back today and see what they can do for me. There is a Job ID # on the website showing the OTR position based out of Houston, so hopefully that will help or at least they can give me a straight answer on why they were not offering that to me and I can then decide from there if it's going to be a good fit or if I need to look elsewhere.

I appreciate y'all!

I’m 26 and have only been at this for 9 months now. My company sent me out OTR for the first three months before becoming regional. It was some of the best learning and time out I had so far. I would drive out from FL to Kansas then out to CO, Washington, Montana, Cali, etc.

Even though it was a limited time it gave me a much better opportunity to learn and build daily routines, as well as experience a variety of shippers/consignees. Regional I deal with the same places over and over.

I had much more time and leeway to learn given I ran on recap, driving 8-9 hours a day versus pushing my clock to its limit every day. When I joined on the regional route it was another learning experience getting used to that. I enjoy the hell out of it though.

Just an observation but some drivers I’ve met who went regional out the gate became jaded with it.