Newbie here
 

I live in Northeast North Carolina, and thinking about switching to trucking. I currently have my class A CDL and am a route driver for a local beer distributor here in town, but want to get out of it because slinging beer at 40 is just a little to much. Also for anyone not familar with my location, I am close to Chesapeake, Virginia Beach & Norfolk, Va if that helps. But would much prefer to stay in NC. Thanks for any and all advice. Also fairly new to T/T's since April, prior to that was dump trucks with the D.O.T. here. If that helps.

Go put applications in with all the race teams. That job is fun as hell and pays good with lots of fringe benefits. I did it for about 6 months before our team lost the sponsor.

Sorry, dont mean to stray from the posts topic.

jegzus, I noticed your profile, you are from Effort, Pa. I used to live there also. Im out near Hazleton now. Where did you live in Effort. (I lived in the culd a sac on Sunset Drive, off Rt 115)

On harvest Hill dr off of sugar hollow road.

dont live near any race teams. thats near charlotte and im like 6 hrs. from there

So get hired and move lol. Thomasville is a nice area, that is where I was living.

moving is not an option

hey i was a route driver for 18 years myself i no how you feel. driving the truck was the easy part of the job. what you could try would be to go to the big post office hubs in your area and see what trucking companys are hauling the mail for the post office . then call them up. the pay is good the most work you have to do is secure your laod. also a lot of dedicated work. hours suck but you cant have every thing. you can also try your dot see if theyare looking for any highway maintainers. you would be plow driving road repair nothing to hard. i have done both and theyare both better then being a route driver.i am not knocking route driving i made a real real good living doing it. but once i got in my fortys it got tuff on the back and knees. good luck to you.

I worked for the DOT here and had to leave because of the $$$$$$, put 5 1/2 yrs in. Mail here done with box truck. Anyone else have any help or ideas for me?

EH,try this place,eh Jb hunt. You make good money,like 350.00 one week,but they have very slow truck. :sad:

What about LTL? You'd still be a route driver (of sorts) but it won't be as tough on the body as your current job.

350.00 a week isnt good money. As for LTL's, know of any in my area?

No--not from the area.

Here's a google search for virginia beach, VA "Less than truckLoad". (First link is SAIA--an LTL outfit)

You can try the same for the other two cities....

Best!

You got that right. At least TDB shed some light on J.b hunt's pay scale.That hungarian idiot. :lol: You might want to try Southern freight out of Ga. or BAH express out of Ok. They run thru the Carolinas pretty often.

DD60/Jack5/Newb Dooley/TDB.... Did you just answer yourself ????

A lot of LTL in the Hampton roads area, if you can stand the drive up here every morning, depending on exactly were you live, 1 to 2 hours at a time., old dominion being the biggest around here

I have No idea who Newb Dooley is.

You can talk to yourself. Just dont answer yourself. Folks might think youre crazy. :P

I answer myself all the time...

:lol: :lol: In case you didn't get it by now, TDB is the running gag on this board. Gotta luv him. However, I do beleive he is close on JB pay scale.... :lol: :lol: :P

hmmmmm.

Makes me wonder now? Is Cluggy's alter ego Triple Digit Bob?

Yea, that's the ticket....I'm running MULTS.

Hey mods, why don't you go ahead and delete my other ID? I'll keep the cluggy619. :lol: :lol: :lol: