I lost my office job, and am wanting to get into trucking, more specifically local route delivery?

Do delivery/trucking jobs exist where you work a normal work day and are home each night, ya know like a UPS guy. Id love to be a delivery guy driving all day loading unloading but I know UPS Fed-Ex you have to be in the company for a long time b4 u get that job. So what CDL License should I get, does a job like Im looking for even exist? Do I contact trucking companies and ask them...I have a wife and 2 small kids I need to be home each night...if anyone can steer me in the right direction it would be great.
I lost my office job, and am wanting to get into trucking, more specifically local route delivery?
Many of the local LTL (Less Than Truckload) outfits you see would want an experienced driver to hire. Many of them are unionized, and to get a 'city job' as they are called usually means you need seniority. Getting hired in off the street with no experience would never happen as they want at least three years' verifiable trucking employment. The current economic climate has every LTL carrier in this country scrambling for freight, and downsizing. YRC (Yellow Roadway Corp.) is currently re-negotiating Teamster contracts and is laying off. Con-Way closed some 60 terminals nationwide. That's for a tractor/trailer driver, and you need a Class 'A' commercial license.





If you are talking about driving a Package Car like a UPS delivery van on a pedal route, UPS only hires those guys from within. FedEx guys are all contract employees; even the home delivery vans are owned by Owner/Operators that have one or several vans and employees that actually are contracted by that Owner to work for him, and then leased on to FedEx. A regular driver's license is needed, with a good driving record: No tickets for three years, no accidents, no DUI. You have to be able to pass a drug screening. If you do drugs, forget it. One test failure will just about make you unemployable in this industry, and yes, they do keep track of it through DAC.





Package delivery volume is waaay down. This is their busy season, before the holidays, and they aren't hardly busier than normal. Ex-BIL is a UPS delivery guy; he's only working 40 to 50 hours a week. Usually he'd be pushing twelve hours a day this time of year.





I am an Owner-Operator that owns my own truck and trailer and am currently leased on to a small trucking firm and run under their operating authority. I have been sitting home since the first week of October as freight rates have plummetted, along with the volume of freight being shipped. I cannot run my truck beneath the cost of operation and expect to stay in business.





Best of luck to you, I hope this helps some.



Reply:ok there are a couple ways u can do this,


find a trucking school in ur area, just search online for trucking schools and the name of ur town....


contact them and tell them ur situation


i went to trucking school for 3 weeks, it cost about 4500.00 but some trucking companies will pay for ur schooling, or reimburse u for the tuition u just have to work for them for like a yr if u quit u pay the rest of the tuition.


the school i went to they had trucking companies come in and bring us applications we filled out and got replies back that we were accepted and then we chose who we wanted to work for


there are companies that hire drivers to do local deliveries to stores, restaurants, delivering during the day usually start early of a morning do ur route and then finish and be home in the late afternoon, u an also get a job being the yard dog or yard jockey at a company where u are moving trailers in and out of the dock doors......


the schools train u in all u need to pass the driver test and tehn when u hire on with a company u ride with another driver to learn the ropes





u can get a lot of info online by searching trucking jobs, go to a local truck stop and get the trucking ad brochurs available
Reply:My friend did trucking for awhile aparently the money is made in long hauling because its further and less people want to do it. Most CDLs want to easy daily routes but you have to have a few years experience and it can be more competitive.