thoughts on this? does this seem good? Anybody have experience or have done anything like this pls share your experience.

Looking to get into trucking but can't afford to go without a paycheck, I'm currently looking into Roehl, but heard that they got driver-facing cameras and micromanage you a lot, so I'm looking for any better alternatives in or around KY

Is it me or all TA don’t believe in toilet seat covers, I knew it was a reason why my body never let me stop at them..because wtf is going on

I work in Breakdown.

No, we don't WANT to shut you down, hahah.

I see a lot of negative posts and comments about the company and I'm curious:

Is the pay really that bad? We have a lot of drivers who have been with us for 20+ years, "40/80 Club" members.

Just wondering how we can do better.

I've been trying to get the abortion shit off the trailers for 5 years, trust me.

You people are some of the most insufferable drivers in America. My follow distance is not your merge space, flooring it to try to cut me off while I'm halfway into merging is a great way to get beheaded, and for the love of all that is holy MERGE ONTO THE HIGHWAY WHEN IT IS SAFE AND LEGAL TO DO SO. Somebody else on Reddit coined it perfectly "Texas is the F you I'm getting mine state". That is all

Hey ya’ll. As the title says I’m turning 20, Male. And I’m interested in driving box trucks, as it requires no CDL. I work in a warehouse and was talking to someone who came to pick up a load and that conversation got me really interested. I’m aware it’s not all glitz and glamor and it can get really long and a lot of time away from home, which doesn’t sound like a big problem for me, as I already travel a lot for work and I am away from home a lot. I’m also used to driving a lot, as my daily commute from work is an hour back and forth and I drive to upstate New York which is 6 hours, almost monthly, which I understand might not be comparable to driving 20+ hours. I am located in NJ. I would probably start off working for myself and then potentially get my own truck. In an ideal world this would just be a few years thing until I complete my degree or potentially flight school, then I would move onto something else, or maybe down the line I can run my own fleet, but that’s a long time down the road, I would love to hear what some of you guys would advise, thanks in advance.

Hey all. Got a backhaul coming from Winchester, VA to Paw Paw, MI. Company tries to avoid us taking 76 if possible. So I’m forced to re route and need to make an 8am delivery.

Got out of the truck a while back, got a normal type job which means more time at home. But oh boy I tell ya, the road, she calls to me sometimes.

Its truly not a bad idea, but i would prefer a lid on the crapper. Imagine all the loads you could do while you're unloading.

been doing weekly rate updates on here trying to actually help carriers out with real numbers instead of just guessing. curious how many of you are running your own truck

for the longest time it was just gut feel or pulling up DAT but honestly that never felt right to me, like the number on the screen and whats actually happening on that lane are two totally different things half the time

so i built a free tool that pulls posted rates and flags when a loads been sitting for a while, usually means its priced too low and some broker is just hoping someone desperate finally takes it. wanted real numbers instead of just a guess

what do you actually check before taking a load? rate per mile, deadhead, whether theres something decent to bring you back, or is it mostly just gut feel at this point. are you even using anything for it or just going off experience

happy to send it to anyone who wants to mess with it, mostly just want to hear how you all really handle this stuff

heres a couple of the recent posts if you want to see what im talking about:

60-day rate trends: https://www.reddit.com/r/OwnerOperators/comments/1w3xpk6/60day_freight_rate_trends_august_31_2026/

2-week load posting timelapse by county: https://www.reddit.com/r/OwnerOperators/comments/1w3jfni/2week_summary_of_load_postings_by_county_aug_1831/

I'm bigger than I've ever been and it's definitely from my habits as a night driver. Any suggestions or recommendations to get moving in the right direction?

Drummer by the way.

Day 5 of my 21 day training period and my trainer is driving me insane, everytime the GPS doesn't go the way he wants he flips out, calls it an asshole, bellows its being a dick, every danm time he sees a Volvo he does on a tangent about the Russians and does annoying impression of a dumb man.

He never shuts up about how much he hates Muslims, Lberals, Volvo, Etc.

Anytime I take my headphones off he has to start rambling about his messed up childhood, parents and ex wife and refuese to shut up.

He has to say something about everything [always derogatory] rants about how the truck is working against him, yelling at the GPS, the truck, my phones GPS, anything asd anyone that irritates him, insulting and accusing them of doing it on purpose.

FYI I consider myself to be conservative, but this guy makes me look like a radical liberal by comparison.

But I'm going to tough it out and as soon as I can go solo I'm going to hit the ground running away screaming.

Anyway, i just needed to blow off steam, safe travels to you all.

Got my CDL about a month ago. I posted a little while back about needing to be local because of my family situation, but fortunately that has changed and I can now comfortably hit the road and be regional or OTR. The two roadblocks for me now are:

1. DUI that occurred March of 2022 and went onto my record March of 2023. Technically this included an at fault accident with no injuries, but this didn't show up when I got my K4 record printout from the DMV. Just the DUI as far as I can tell.

2. Restricted to automatic for the time being.

Before anyone says it, I don't drink whatsoever anymore and have 10 months completely sober and intend to stay so until I'm in diapers in a wheelchair with my license is taken away.

If it helps or makes any difference, I'm a military veteran and I am closest to Ontario, and not too far from Fontana, Riverside, San Bernardino, Pomona, Santa Ana, and LA. Already been rejected by CRST, JB Hunt, and Schneider. I'm sure Western Express will take me, but from what I'm reading here I'd like that to be my absolute last resort option.

I try and keep a solid 57 - 58 at all times in the state but you'd swear I was doing like 40 with the sheer amount of drivers that pass going 60 to 64+ according to my front sensor. Is there some unwritten rule about speeding in CA where its fine as long as you dont go 65? I understand drivers passing me when I'm governed at 65 and speed limits 70 or whatever in other states but I'm literally doing over the speed limit here and like 95% of other drivers are passing me. I may be new but I do know not to fuck with CHP, they can and will pull you for doing even 5 over let alone 10 or more, this is also conveniently the State I see the most semis pulled over getting some kind of ticket, at least two a day. What am I missing here? Is it really worth it risking a moving violation?

I see a lot of otr/regional guys on here complaining or just new guys getting in and it not being what they expected. Y'all gotta do what you need to be able to switch to a local job.

And specifically a local union job(UPS/ABF/TForce) or a local job for a company that treats it's drivers so good it doesn't need a union(Sheetz, sure there's more but idk off the top of my head).

I went from making $0.54/mi regional getting fucked by dispatch all day every day and only getting in 2,100-2,300 miles a week because of it making just $1,100-1,250 pre tax per week being gone from 2am Monday morning till late Friday or early Saturday. With no Benefits.

To working around 47hr per week on average, making overtime after 8hr in a day or 40hr per week, at $30/hr so I'm making $1,500/wk for 10hr avg days(including 30min unpaid lunch, so 9.5hr paid).

Not only am I getting paid way more, I could also easily get 60+hr per week if I wanted and be making as much as $2550 pre tax per week for a 70hr.

But I'm also getting great benefits, free low deductible low copay health insurance, paid vacation(paid at 45hr/wk or 9hr/day), 12 paid holidays, 7 paid sick days(no note needed), $64/day contributed to pension by employer and full vesting after just 5 years, and amazing job security.

It's also way less stressful. Traffic? Couldn't care less, I'm making hourly I'll sit in traffic all day. Dispatch fuck up? Not my problem, I'll sit here as long as needed making hourly. Shipper taking forever? Please fucking take forever, like I want you to be slow AF bc I'm just chilling in my truck making hourly.

And if somehow $130k per year just isn't enough for you then there's plenty of local jobs that pay even more. Sheetz for example is starting drivers out at $43.50/hr in my area which would be $192k if you maxed out 70 each week.

OTR pays way less, is way more stressful, and generally has way worse benefits. Come work for a local ltl or fuel hauler.

And before anyone says some shit like "not everyone can be ltl" YES they fucking can. LTLs are already taking bigger and bigger loads and more truckload stuff every year, they are plenty fine with taking TL stuff if they can make money on it and they will be able to if TL carriers just can't get drivers bc they treat their drivers like trash.

I’m a local LTL linehaul truck driver with a fixed route, I started out OTR but only for about 9 months and I mainly stuck to the East and Texas. I’m looking for some suggestions from you experienced folk. I’m moving from Chesapeake VA to Denver CO in mid Oct 2027. Im wondering what you’d suggest would be the best route. I’m in no rush so I plan on making it a pretty chill 3 - 5 day drive, longer duration cool too. Looking to make it more of a road trip than a half country haul ass. Pulling a small uhaul truck with car dolly and my lady. Photo is just for illustration purposes not at all a set in stone route. Thanks for any help

This has been a pretty shitty month. I had a cpc failure that put me in a hotel for 5 days, then I drove into some mud (that decievingly looked like packed dirt) that fucked up my bumper and put me down for another 5 days, I had a blowout and a heated truck stop experience with an asshole blocking the fuel isle, and I don't even think I got a bonus for the first time ever this month for not meeting the minimum miles, along with other typical shitty shit that happens when trucking.

All of this happens and on my last load that takes me home, I get there towards the very end of the open window, and it's not ready with no eta of when it will be ready, and if I don't leave in about 30 minutes, I won't have time left on my clock to get home.

So I try sending messages and calling dispatch, but I work for a mega and it's after hours so there's a few different departments that will keep saying that I need to talk to the other department for an answer of whether I can go deadhead home or wait another night and be late for hometime. Usually my company takes hometime very seriously and allows deadheads in cases like these, but I still want confirmation.

This brings us to the point of my rant. I get connected to a lady who says the old, "that's trucking" line and being late for hometimes is just something that happens, if I can't handle that then I should reevaluate if trucking is for me. Then I say ok, I'll go shutdown but she goes on to keep patronizing me saying ok, so you can stop calling now. I asked for her name because honestly I even said I don't know how to respond right now. I'm not used to be disrespected like that and even though she isn't really my boss, she is part of the team that manages my operations so I'm not going to check her myself, but if I get her name I can always go complain to someone that does more so fit the bill of my boss.

I was being totally calm but she then goes on to say I'm gonna let you go now because me and you aren't getting anywhere. She finishes it out by trying to be polite and telling me to stay hydrated, probably because she wants to keep some kind of semblance of cordiality after I asked for her name and she's thinking I did that to complain about her.

Am I being dramatic here? She probably did me a favor by reminding me that they do not care about me. I was considering complaining and letting them know that this event especially is a major reason why drivers like me go from thinking, "wow, this company gave me that first chance and took a shot on me and has thus far treated me fairly," to "I wonder what other companies around are hiring." Writing this out though, I think that'll just make me a target by expressing real shit and not just making a note of this for future considerations.

Why would I spend so much time and money in a job that I don't think is a good fit for me? Also why talk to me like I'm your step child you secretly resent? I'm a grown man 😂😂😂

Anyways thanks for reading, stay safe out there. Stay hydrated too lol

Thankfully i was parked at loves and was able to change it without starting my clock !!