Maddii'swife, I guess yall made it to Stillwater.. Cool.
Yeah, for the most part, local companies apply to DOT regs. Maybe not your local owned concrete, smaller companies. The beverage companies dont apply, either. The LTL companies do.

For some local jobs, the difference between the hours from running OTR, is being at home at night. You can still rack in the same amount of hours, running local, but atleast you go home to sleep. I guess, it would depend on how yall feel about being gone, and how it would feel if he is home at night, and money, etc...

 

Around here they do. They have DOT numbers and have to follow HOS like any other trucking company. They just like to use the 16 rule once a week. Foodservices comapines are the same way. Any run under 100 air miles does not have to have a log book but they still have to follow HOS. 12 hours without a log book, 14 hours with one(except once a week, 16 hours).

As for working 14 hours, depends on the company and the run. I have had runs that where 8-10 hours a day and I have had runs as long as 13 hours, being home everynight.

 

[quote="madii'swife"]We are in an area that has a few options for local CDL jobs, and a few that are currently hiring. We are not so much pursuing this for now, but it brought up some interesting questions.

Do most local jobs still run out a 14 hour clock? I know most are not going to be 9-5 kindof jobs, but theres still a big difference between an 11-12 hour day and a 14-15 hour day.

If most locals run 14 hours plus commute, what exactly is the advantage of taking it, except to sleep in your own bed? For instance in our circumstance, if my husband were to leave at 6 am, and not get back unitl 9 pm he would effectively totally miss seeing the children, and basically get home just in time to eat, grab a shower, and go to bed. Maybe I'm missing something, but I just don't see a huge difference between that and being out on the road. And with less pay.


I run local and in a nutshell: Get up at 3:30am,drive to work-in the truck by 4:30am run from South Jersey to Bethany Ct unload and back load,fuel up home by 7-8:00 pm. Eat,shower and to bed by 10:30.
So a 16+ hour day. This go's on for 5 to 6 days . As for money Gross 850 to 1125. Money going out $65 aweek gas and you still have to eat about $60 to $100.
The only thing when I'm running over the road I get more sleep. Spend about the same money,make about the same money.But I'm not so burnt out on the weekends and Days I'm home.
I'm looking to go over the road again.

 

Thanks everybody for the wide range of ideas. We're still not sure what we're going to do, or when LOL. Right now he's sticking where he's at (hubby that is) but wanted to know if local was a decent option. Thanks again!

 

I work a 1230-2130ish shift in LTL. Every once in a while if we have more freight than line drivers I get to turn and burn to Sacramento or Winnemucca. On those nights I don't get home until 0200-0400 the next day.

I got my CDL in house in April 06 and got my start time in July of 06. It took the other guy I trained with until Oct of 06 to get a road bid.

Its very much a sellers market for drivers in Northern NV and CA. You can get $15-17hr local jobs with the ink still drying on your CDL.

 

It really depends where you live as to how well the local market is. I live in Tampa and IMO the local market here is great. A ton of LTL work and tanker work. I fell into an awesome delivery route for Penske delivering freight to Porter Paint stores during the evening/night. $0.615 a mile, Sun-Thurs and about 40-47 hour work weeks. I average about 1950 miles a week. 1800 miles on the lowside and 2100 miles on the highside. Not every job is like this down here, but they do exist. You just have to do some searching and knock on some doors. Fuel tankers pay very well. My dad has been hauling fuel for Racetrac for 14 years and I know a lot of guys running for Kenan who are very pleased.

 

Well, looks like he might have an offer for $15 an hour plus stop pay come spring, that if he gets it and we can afford it he'll probably be taking. We'll just have to see how it goes. Right now he has to stay where he is until February at least or has to pay them back for training, so we'll see how it goes after that.