How does getting loads in OTR work?
Posted by RaphealWannabe@reddit | Truckers | View on Reddit | 5 comments
Do you start out at your home terminal, pick up a load, deliver it and then go to your nearest terminal owned by your employer and pick up the next one?
Do you drive back to your home terminal and pick up a new load?
How does it work?
TruckerBiscuit@reddit
My outfit sends me potential loads. It's up to me to accept or reject them based on my own criteria. If I want home time I try and give my fleet manager 1-2wks notice and he gets me where I want to be when I want to be there.
Auquaholic@reddit
Larger companies have many customers all over the country that need to send and recieve frieght all over the country. You could pick up Nestlé from Indiana and take it to Walmart DC in California. Then pick up from a farm in California and deliver it to Kroger DC in Houston and so on and so on.
RaphealWannabe@reddit (OP)
I see, thank you! That makes sense.
Auquaholic@reddit
To add: you do that arms the country for 3 weeks (or more) and request home time. They get you a delivery that is close to your home. After a few days at home, they find you a pick up near your home. Rinse and repeat.
DieselPunk97@reddit
Loads are posted on a load board that is picking up at a distributor (Consignor) that either live loads you or has a trailer preloaded for you, that typically your company owns, that you hook up to and then take to the customer (Consignee) and deliver to them and then, after delivery, you will look at the load board and pickup at a different customer (usually in the city you just delivered) and take it to somewhere else and then repeat.