Career Over The Road pays big time

Are you interested in a career on the road? OTR

OTR= Over The Road

There are few careers where you are able to visit so many great destinations in the United States while getting paid big bucks. If you enjoy driving and like being your own boss, the trucking industry has great opportunities that are perfect for your lifestyle.

Want to join the trucking industry?

Before you can get on the road, however; training is required for your CDL license. I've compiled a list of nationwide truck driver training programs to choose from.

From beginner to advanced classes, you will find a truck driving school in your area. Be ready with commercial vehicle training that will get you prepared to pass the test and receive your commercial driver's license (CDL).

Find specialized instruction or general truck drving classes. Your new truck driving career is only a class away. Sign up with a truck driving school today and be a big rig truck driver soon!

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Frederick Community College
(My son in law got his CDL there)
PO Box 541
Frederick, MD 21705
Phone: 301-698-5364

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Professional Truck Driver Program
8042B Reichs Ford Road
Frederick, MD 21704
Phone: 888-331-0703

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And these people were where I got
my Class A training from:

Drive Rite Trucking School
202 Bertram Cir
Glen Burnie, MD 21060
Phone: 410-766-8456

I really liked these folks, I'd been
driving for over 20 years already but
with a Class B licence.

With Drive Rite you don't have to pay
for instruction you don't need!

I thought Drive Rite had a better 'business model'
with these guys you're *Renting the Truck*
and it just so happens that the CDL truck comes with a
Driver Instructor!!

The owner really knows how to teach, I should know, I've
trained dozens of drivers over the past 26 years.
He told me when to look in which mirror and when to cut
my wheels when I saw X, Y, or Z in different mirrors.









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Over the Road JOBS in Frederick TODAY

Last week when I checked the local newspaper (that shall remain anonymous in this blog because I'm competing with them) I saw a few OTR CDL job openings...

That was in the Sunday paper. On Monday the ads were gone?

Filled that quickly?

OK, today there are several, which tells me that the price of diesel being lower is leading to trucking companies being more willing to hire more drivers.

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Here's today's list, Sunday November 9, 2008:



Experienced Driver
Trainers Wanted!
Werner Enterprises,
get 1st day approval.
Class-A CDL req.
Our trainers make
$65,000-$100,000 Year 800-346-2818, x227

Ok, I'm not a qualified trainer... Even though I've trained dozens of rookie drivers over the past 26 years, I've also got some suspensions on my CDL driving record.

Those suspensions were from not turning my MD tags in and canceling the MD liability insurance... I was told once, "your driving record denotes a pattern of irresponsibility"

I wish the shoe didn't fit... I've been doing my penance.

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Here's the next CDL truck driving job listed in Frederick Maryland:

DRIVERS
$975 to $1092 Average Pay
Regional Drivers
Major Accounts in Virginia
Condo Fleet
Reefer Experience Beneficial
Six Months Recent Exp CDL A
Plenty of Freight
Excellent Home Time
NAPA Transportation, Inc.
Harrisonburg, Virginia
Call Laddie
800-794-4639
www.napatran.com

Here is a graphic of the area NAPA Transportation runs,
it looks like they run in the NorthEast:


And I'm thinking that you'll be hauling to Auto Parts Stores all over the North East.

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Drivers CDL Class A

Tired of Looking?
We’ve Got What
You Need!
SINCE 1958

Excellent Pay

Plenty of Freight

Professional Equipment

Drivers Out 7-10 Days

Min 23 yrs old, 1 yr. Over The Road Experience,
Requires Class A CDL

www.smxc.com
888-864-3490

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Attention Drivers!

TOP PAY FOR
TOP DRIVERS
Better Performance,
Higher Pay
Expect the Best at TMC
*Performance Based Pay!*
*Best Equipment
on the Road!*
You Deserve
Strength & Stability
WE HAVE IT!

Call TMC Today
866-617-1549

Recent Graduate of a CDL school?
Need your CDL? Call 866-798-6960
www.tmctrans.com

And it looks like you'd be hauling Steel, Lumber and Equipment for this outfit,
which means you'll be running a flat bed, something I've not done yet...

With a flat bed you've got to strap down your loads, check them for the freight shifting, and it can get cold chaining your load down- did you see Ice Road Truckers?

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Drivers- Solos & Teams
€ $44K-$55K 1st yr
€ Bonus every 30k miles
€ Pay increase every 60k
miles
€ 4 to 5 wks paid vacation
€ Blue Cross/Blue Shield
€ CDL Class A license req.
(800)432-1594
www.driveceladon.com

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There is always an add for a local mattress company, I'm not going to list it here...
I'm thinking to myself: "What's wrong with this company that they can't keep drivers?"

Either the money's not enough to balance out what ever pain in the ass the job is.
OR
Management has a 'control freak syndrome' going on.

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And FedEx in Hagerstown is looking for seasonal drivers, pay is $11.22 an hour, No CDL required.

That's it for local Frederick Maryland CDL career opportunities for this week end.

Stay Tuned....

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OTR pays better but takes more out of you.

Most of my previous posts have been about Maryland CDL truck driving jobs that pay by the hour, like construction trucking, dump trucks and such.

The bigger money is in Over The Road trucking, but it doesn't come without it's hardships... when you run out of time (no more than 14 hours consecutive but roughly 10 hours a day) you've got to stop, right there.

You may find yourself at a truck stop in the middle of nowhere!

Truck stops are usually found about 600 miles give or take from a major shipping center.

Why?

Because we can only drive 600 miles a day and stay legal (hours of service limitations from D.O.T.)



The good thing about dump truck jobs is OVERTIME (time and a half)

In Virginia, I worked for C.W.Strittmater in Mannassas. Got paid $16 an hour, $24 for time and a half.

In Baltimore most trucking firms paid $13 an hour, making it $19.50 for time and a half. Baltimore's cost of living is much lower than DC areas.

Over The Road CDL jobs almost always pay by the mile.

So much a mile loaded, so much a mile 'deadheading' (coming back empty)

The biggest pain in the butt for O.T.R. is getting unloaded... you sometimes get paid a paltry fee for waiting there to get empty or loaded... often it's not even minimum wage!

If you're getting a couple hundred a day to get there, they guess you've gotten yours... somebody's got to wait there till you get empty.

You just gotta give some of it back!

This site is not responsible for libel, any driver who ever worked for a truck company is welcome to rate any company they worked for, of course if they got fired, they might not give an accurate description of what it was like to work there.

Over the Road jobs in Frederick Maryland +$1000 week

It's possible to work out of state and have your CDL truck (tractor) based here in Frederick Maryland.

There is a hotel off RT 70 that allows tractor trailers to park, it's free if you rent a room there (most of the time the company you work for pays the rent)and if you don't stay there, you can pay a small monthly fee to park.

Other people simply park their rig in shopping center parking lots or other places where no one will complain.

Walmart off RT 26 is one place I parked when I worked for Superior Carriers.

I have hazmat and tanker... there's a severe shortage of ANY Class A drivers, but if you have either the hazmat endorsement or both hazmat and tanker you can get hired in a flash.

I quit driving for Superior Carriers because of hours of service violations - actually Superior simply 'got rid of me' when I refused to drive while too tired.

They're gonna say I got fired, but I really don't care!

I'd rather be looking for a new job than become a greasy stain on the side of the mountain off PA route 31.

Superior paid by the mile - and my run was 5 times a week from the Proctor and Gamble plant off Holabird Ave in Baltimore MD to a point near the Ohio/ Pennsylvania state line, I took empty trailers up and switched them with a full one at a truck stop not far from the Ohio line.

This is called a 'relay', a CDL driver may only drive roughly 600 miles in a single day and stay legal. (10 hours a day @ 60 MPH = 600 miles)

The problem was in unloading... I was out of hours when I got to Uniliver (the parent company for Proctor and Gamble, well maybe it's not the parent company but perhaps it's the manufacturing arm of P & G), it took around 3 hours for my truck to get unloaded, leaving me going over the Baltimore Harbor Key Bridge in violation of Maryland D.O.T. hours of service laws

One day when I ran my relay, switched an empty trailer for a loaded trailer full of concentrated fabric softener I was just too tired to drive, I took a nap... and my delivery was late.

There's also good things to say about Superior Carriers - some trucking companies refuse to pay for training (what happens if you get hurt in their truck and you're 'off the clock' ???)

Superior Carriers paid me FULL WAGES while I road as a passenger learning the route.
I got paid $.39 mile loaded and $.34 mile empty

This worked out to $265 a day, if I'd made all 5 runs I'd have made almost $1400 a week.

There are many 'Walking Floor' trailers parked at the hotel that once was a truck stop off RT 70, those guys are driving for a firm that contracts trash removal from the Frederick County Landfill to landfills in Pennsylvania and down south somewhere near Richmond Virgina.

A walking floor trailer is a dump trailer that doesn't raise up in the air to unload. What happens is the floor of the truck 'walks', it kind of 'pumps the contents off the truck'

The company pays by the load, it works out to $250 a day.



This site is not responsible for libel, any driver who ever worked for a truck company is welcome to rate any company they worked for, of course if they got fired, they might not give an accurate description of what it was like to work there.