Need advice... What will it be like to drive N.E. Regional all the time and get home on weekends . verses OTR that you get home every other weekend. Will there be unneeded stress driving the New England states, and what will be the worst states to drive in. Thanks for any info yous can provide...................

 

3. Price of fuel

2. Tolls

1. Traffic

Those will be your 3 biggest issues I think

Oh well very very tight city steets!

 

You forgot:
Limited overnight parking
Anti-ideling laws
Lower paid miles(had to get any when you're stuck in traffic)
As for wrost state:
The entire NE!

 

Ahhhhhhhhhh yes I forgot all about that, the miles may be short but isn't the pay pretty good up there? I heard that the pay is well above average. Correct me if I'm wrong on that.

 

Depends on the company. Most of the major OTR carriers pay the same milage rate regardless. Some will pay you to deliver into NYC and some don't.

 

Im looking at Barr-Nun for a North East Regional job. .40 cpm up to .41cpm after 120000 miles plus 600.00 bonus every 60000 miles and mileage band pay, or a salary of $975.00 per week with one 600.00 bounus per year and home on weekends. What do you think?

 

Take the $975/WK with Barr-Nun. You will not see a ton of miles in this area with them(do to the above mentioned) but I have talked to two of their drivers that live in my area and they both say that you will see freight, just not miles. Alot of short hauls(Allentown,PA to Pittsburgh; Cinncy to Pittsburgh, goes to the same customer).
BOL

 

If you want to run North East as a company driver I would go with New Century or Jevic if you want to make a living.It's hard work (most all LTL with haz mat)but,you will make a ton more than you would doing truck load.Can make $75k a year without much effort.
The worst state to deal with is Ct. all the way around,everything there just plain sucks.
The idling laws up here are no different then anywhere els in the country.Almost every state now has some sort of law on thier books ot's not just a "Yankee" thing as some flat landers would say.
Rates to go North are most times pretty good but, the problem is leaving here.For some reason when people get the rate they should be paid to come here they beleive they should take freight for free when they leave and that's what makes the rates pitifull.(this is rant that falls on deaf ears over and over)
I would think that if you want to run in certain part of the country you would be better off working for a company from there not some outfit from half the country away.I tried doing a regional thing years ago for Heartland Exp. in NH and Me. and they had no clue on how to run a truck up here and I ended up getting shafted by them.