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Do you have any suggestions for companies to work for based on the following requirements?
1) consistent mileage---at least 2750 per week?
2) No appointment frieght. Or at least consistent, day-time appointments. No night appointments both on the pickup and delivery sides.

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There is no guarantee of either.

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Ohhhhh Dream on Young dreamer.....................dream on. Only in a perfect world.
That would be helping the driver toooooooo much.............not in the Trucking companies interest. ''


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I want that job!
Unfortunatly, it doesn't exist...unless perhaps you're an old hand who's paid his dues with some outfit and eventually the guy who has that little cushy run dies and it's your turn......

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Dawn Kirshna, yes it does exist.
For you? Unlikely.
For the most part, such driving jobs are given to senior drivers. (working two years for a carrier does not qualify as a senior driver)
Then your more than likely looking at having to relocate (move) to another area of the Country.
Now I'm waiting for the idiot to post.
What Carriers?

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What carriers?
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The only idiots I know are those who continue doing the same stupid crap year in and year out without ever looking for some thing better.
The above poster is actually pretty smart. Trying to find out if the job meets your requirements before you blindly jump in makes alot of sense.
Other than that, her name is a bit questionable.

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To find a job where you pretty much only work during the daytime and don't have night deliveries.. The miles may varry.. I would rather work % than milage.. Though being new.. you would have to learn where the decent paying loads are.. So milage is usualy better for the newbies..
I would recomend flatbed.... (Maveric, TMC, JB, Swift, ect..) Flats tend to have more flexable delivery scheduals.. But to say never deliver at night might be streaching it.. nothing in this business is etched in stone.. It is more like etched in jello.. always moving and changing.. LOL
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I drive for Maverick and have never had a night delivery or pickup.It is flat bed,which alot of people don't want to do.I love it.Most of the time I have an delivery or pick up window very rarely an exact time to be there.Give them a call..

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If the job description contains the words "irregular route", you will always have live loads and unloads with inflexible appointment times that waste your time.
If it is "dedicated", your odds increase of having what you seem to want, predicatability.
For example, JB Hunt has dedicated Home Depot runs that are drop & hook at a DC and live unloads at stores with a delivery window. The unloading times at the stores is predictable ... they go home at night and open again early in the morning.
JB also has some dedicated Walmart that would be all drop & hook ... if you can find something that is 100% drop & hook, then you can set your own 10/14 hour clock and shut down the same time each day.
Most of the big carriers have such jobs. Some of them are hard to get into. If you call JB Hunt and ask about the Home Depot dedicated, they will tell you there are no openings ... but the best way to get in is to start with them as an OTR driver OTR at JB Hunt is a joke now. The average length of haul for the OTR division is only 558 miles according to their most recent quarterly report. They might as well just shut it down and focus on truck/rail and dedicated, as that is not OTR driving and does not justify keeping a driver away from home for 2 weeks.

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I would say the same about dedicated. If you like consistency, miles, appointment times, etc. Thats were you will find it. It isnt perfect but you will get the "routine" of it and adapt. 48 state irregular runs is difficult because you are dealing with different shipper/receivers each time. Each of them have there own set of hours.
I drive for Werner. Been on dedicated to Office Max for 4years. Runs begin at the DC, Stores deliver by appointment (during the day), trips back to DC are either MT or Office Max freight back to the DC, or general freight back to the DC's region. Most trips back to DC are window appts with drop trailer. The general freight is usually window appts for shipper and receiver, sometime drop+hook, sometimes lvld/lvunld. depends.
You learn the system and the stores and it becomes very routine. Miles: 5day drivers about 2300-2500, 7day drivers about 3300-3700 (solo).

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The term dedicated in trucking is very misleading. When people think of dedicated their thinking of picking up at one location and then dropping at their customers and heading back to the same pick up spot. That is not the way it is 90 percent of the time. Usually it means running for one customer, ie. office Max, Walmart, Target, Home Depot etc.. That's where it stops. Those customers have multiple DC's throughout the US and most often you will pick up at the closest location to where you drop and head to one of their stores for delivery. You could start at Walmart in Florida and a week and a half later be in Washington. Most likely you will also pick up at one of their suppliers and take it to a DC. The supplier could be anywhere and the DC could be anywhere. Like all OTR trucking it will depend on where you land empty and where the closest load is in relation to you.
I've hauled dedicated for 3 companies and am on my 4th one now. All of them included day and night deliveries and pickups. Only the one I have now includes picking up at the same location each time. As a fact it is the only one where I dead head empty back to the same plant at the end of each load. I didn't pull a van or reefer when I started. I pulled a cryogenic tank and now a dry van with 1 product on board. It is worlds apart from the regular OTR dedicated stuff. I have tried alot of different types of trucking and it is the only way to go if you want some resemblence of regularity. No appointments or very few at either end means you can set your hours running a legal log book. Load when you get there and unload when you get there. Although that is not guaranteed as some customers have required appointments. Unlike most dedicated retail crap lIke Werner, Swift etc where you have to unload the trailer (tailgate the load) at the local retail stores there is very little work involved and for what you have to do you are compensated for. Now i don't even have to roll up the door trailer door. I just drive. Although I will roll it half way up so it can vent out just to help out the warehouse guy and make my dock time a little shorter. Like all trucking there are plenty of scummy outfits that pull cryogenics and with little driving experience your chances of landing a good job will be slim to none.

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Stuff said:[quote]Unlike most dedicated retail crap lIke Werner, Swift etc
Easy Stuffs, it aint that bad, Im compensated for any "tailgating" I may have to do. Each stop in my trailer may take 15-30minutes to unld. I find nothing extreme about this. Miles are good, compensation is adequate. not perfect but adequate.
Some dedicates may have you "bouncing"all over the country from DC to DC. However at Office Max, Im assigned to 1 DC only. I start their and return their. The runs vary from less than 100miles-1200+miles one way. The Fleetmanager and Loadplanner keep a good balance on the trucks. They also know the drivers that like to run long and the drivers that like to run short.

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[quote="Drew10"]Stuff said: What you mean is most dedicateds have you bouncing all over the country.
I park in a lot near my home next to 2 Werner and one Swift driver. Both the Werner drivers are on Dollar general dedicated and both stay out for 2 weeks and bounce all over the country. Their compensation for tailgating the loads isn't worth the time.

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Stuffs you are putting words into my post.
I did not say "most dedicateds have you bouncing all over the country". Some do, some dont. Depends on the account.
I will admit Dollar General unloads and the compensation is inadequete. Dollar General product is generally floor loaded and its off loaded with rollers, and the rollers are generally carried by the driver. Personnelly I dont want anything to do with Dollar General.
My product is palletted. I Pallett jack the freight to the dock plate, (its not "tailgated")store takes it from there.
From ringing the receiving department to closing the trailer doors, usually no more than 30mins.
I've seen the Dollar General drives at their stores "tailgating" the product down the rollers, while the store personnel take it off the rollers. They could be working for hours before they finish a store. I wouldnt want anything to do with the Dollar General accounts