Glad to see you made up your mind. For me today was another example of why I choose otr. My pickup isn't til tomorrow so I had all day to sit. Of course I'm not getting paid for it, but I'm in Houston, never been here before so for a couple of dollars for train and bus I went downtown and went to the Museum of Fine arts. I wanted to do a tour of the port but it was booked already.

So for about $20 (I ate at the musuem which is expensive) I spent the day in a city I'd never been to in my life. And quite frankly don't think I'd want to visit again. Not the cleanest city I've been to and I dislike cold weather. But museum was very nice. Again good luck local but I'll stick with otr

 

Yeah OTR is good for seeing the country, I prefer to be home on the weekends, go out skiing and dating and what have you. I make enough that I can go to those places with my paid vacations, and also making about twice what most OTR drivers make.

I thank God every day that I didn't take an OTR job out of school like I had initially planned. Especially writing this from my nice warm house that I live in by myself and still can easily afford.

I've slept in the truck before, and it just doesn't come anywhere close to the nice comfortable bed I sleep in most nights. Although I do stay in a hotel two nights a week (which is like torture, hard to get a good night sleep in those cheap beds, truck bed is even worse though)

 

Local is the way to go, unless you can get a line-haul or a get home every night/other night deal. The open road is overrated. people say you go see the country, but in my eyes, if youre on an interstate all you see is some landscape. you cant go to yellowstone or grand canyon in a truck. You cant visit Arches national park, cross Hoover dam or go into smoky mtn. nat. park. You dont see how people live where you are, so places just flow together and you are- not home.

 

Deus and One know the score! :wink:

 

****$#@***

 

Well, as we have all learned by now, Dizzy is off yanking his tank in the bay area!!

 

I would just like to know who hires local drivers right out of school?? I've been looking for too long and have had NO such thing!! Please HELP!!

 

:roll: local,being home every nite, paying extra bills? yeah it is for lots, maybe most drivers. some of us are single, widowers or widowed, kids grown up and out of the nest. without otr drivers there would be a lot less freight for local drivers to deliver. all parts of freight hauling is just not for anyone else. otr works for me, but i would find a new proffession if i could only do local or regional. so many types of work, so many types of drivers. i like vanilla bean ice cream, but, i don't put down choc or strawberry ice cream eaters. otr is great for me.

 

Try foodservice (Sysco, US Food Service, etc), convenience distributors (Farner Bocken (sp?), Mclane, Core-Mark), etc.

 

try Covan