Before answering this question, you must define what is your definition of the best truck driving job.
For many truckers, it will be one of the few remaining positions in local trucking, where you work a 40 hrs week, and get home every afternoon. For others, it will be a great pay and working conditions. Yet another truck drivers want to build their own trucking business, working as owner drivers. What are your priorities?
Yes, local truck driving jobs have great appeal for drivers wanting to stay close to home, because of their family commitments, or because they don’t like sleeping in someone’s bed, located at the truck stop far away… And whilst position for local truck drivers are offered by trucking companies in hauling every imaginable kind of freight: dry van, tanker, Hazmat and flatbed, to name just a few. But, with the competition amongst drivers fierce, you must be prepared to wait for the opportunity to come close to your home, and accept the pay conditions that may often be less than generous.
If your only concern is the pay and benefits, there are still plenty of truck driving jobs available across the nation; mainly with the long distance freight companies. The pay is excellent, at around 50 cents a mile; some truckers make in the vicinity of $2,000 a week. If this is your description of the best truck driving job, go for it!
My favorite is to be an owner driver. This gives me total control as to who i want to work for, and the workload I’m going to accept. More than that. it gives me an opportunity to build my trucking business through acquiring new contacts in the industry, get to know good drivers and maximize the profit potential that still exists, even in the difficult economic times we’re facing now.
