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I just thought regional would be very consistence with same route, probaly mostly same customer/location, familiarity may make work easier. If i may get about same miles, i would like that. If i wont get as much miles, then i woud not mind otr.

I think you could, yes. I'm curious about why you don't want all 48 states if you don't care about home time. Georgia to Colorado is most of the country anyway.

I am starting orientation in 2 weeks with schneider. Just wondering can someone do regional while getting just as many miles as otr. I am signing up for regional Mn/colorado/gorgia/ohio and anything in between. If i dont care about home time, just run hard, is it easly to get about same miles as someone running whole country? My thought is i dont want to run whole country if i can get about same miles with rigional route that i stated above. If i cant get max miles possible, then i might opt of otr. Adam

I am recent cdl graduate. Had two prehire. Schneider and swift. Trying to decide which one will be best fit, one that will offer me time and space to learn as much before being assigned a truck. I am down to selecting between schneider and swift. I need some advice. I met both recruiter at my school. Schneider is 18 days training while swift is 4-6 weeks. Considering my shifting kinda sucks, not that good. I need more training/more confidence, somebody that will have patient with newbies. My school cdl training was about 6 weeks, it was manual truck. So from what I read in this forum, schneider is one of best training they offer. my only consern with schneider feels short, not enough time, dont want to kicked out send home after 3 days. Seems like swift training is longer, which I like because i will have more time to practise, plus they have minimus like 200hrs of driving before they assign truck.

Thanks Adam

Well, I have friends that are doing trucking as career. I am liking the amount of money they make. I want to do trucking for couple years just to make and save good money. If i like it, well might do it for living But, also have other career goals i would like to achieve.

Thank you everyone for suggestion. I have to say I have never seen such a supportive and encouraging community. This is great:)

Why are you going to truck if you are going on to become a lawyer? Not discouraging you but it sounds wierd to me haha.

So when Adam puts up his "Big Truck Crash" billboard, he knows what he's talking about. Or maybe he can put up a "4-wheeler get in the way?" billboard near truck stops.

Why are you going to truck if you are going on to become a lawyer? Not discouraging you but it sounds wierd to me haha.

Average. But About 10-15 hrs a week. Reset my be good time.

Thanks

Does it have to be 1.5 - 2 hours each day, or can you average that amount (i.e. 4 hours one day and 0 hours the next to average two)? Some starter companies (it seems mostly flatbed) will get you home for a 34 hour reset each weekend. You might not have much time during the week to study, but you could absolutely make up the time on weekends. Just a thought.

Yes. Thank you both.

Adam, you have to be really dedicated to make that time for study. You have 10 hours break every day, minimum. So take whatever your natural sleep needs are and subtract from 10.

Then you have "living" activities like meals, shower, laundry, etc. It if that remainder. The test could be your study time.

There's another thread talking about whether you should stop when you're tired of when you're done, (when you're tired), so keep that in mind, too.

I assume you're thinking law school (LSAT). Studying and driving will get you prepared for that paper chase for sure.

I recent got CDL. I will be starting with a company orientation in about a month for regional/otr. I just have question regarding making time for other stuff mainly studying. Is it feasible and easily managable to make up about 2hours a day to study for something. I would be taking lsat/gre (entrance exam for grad school) sometime. I will need to study 1.5-2hrs daily for about 4 months. If i do trucking, would it be easy to make time for study without affectiong my perfomance as a driver.

Thank you.

Adam