They will not for any reason loan you any money or help you out financially if your repair bill exceeds your ability to pay it. The one potential downside to Oakley is that they expect you to stand on your own two feet as a business owner.
#Oakley trucking driver
Every driver I have known at Oakley has a similar story. He never again questioned my willingness to do exactly what I said I would do. I was prepared to dead-head home at my expense from the start and it took him by surprise when I did just that. I also knew that was how it was going to end and went into this multi-load cluster**** to see what he would pull out of his hat. I let it play out and proved I knew more about driving a truck than he did and still made it home for Thanksgiving. I dead-headed from Indy to Memphis when my travel agent couldn't come up with anything to load after I told him his hair-brained scheme wasn't going to work. Be polite but insistent, and if need be, point your truck towards the house. Sometimes there is some wishful thinking on the part of the dispatchers and you know there is no way you will get home on time with whatever scheme they have cooked up. If you have a specific day you need to be home your dispatcher will work to get you home on time most of the time. Being that far East, getting home every Friday will be a problem, but if you are flexible on your definition of "weekend" you will do well. The nice thing is you will get a change of scenery. Other weeks he finds himself in TX, OH, IL, WI and various other places. Some weeks he spends all his time in NC, SC, and GA running roofing granuals and tire chips back and forth.
I know a driver who lives in SC off 85 by GA who does well with an end-dump. I know there is good freight on the end-dump side and pneumatic side in SC, I don't know how hopper would be out that way but a recruiter would be able to answer that question for you. The answer would have been a decidedly loud "NO" if they had bothered to ask, and I suspect my dispatcher figured he had pushed his luck with me enough with the Jersey loads. They do have loads picking up in the 5 boroughs and I wasn't even asked about going there. I unloaded on the weekend and kept rolling so I didn't have to deal with the traffic and ended up getting over 3,200 miles for the week each time I went. I went to New Jersey 3 times in 3 years, and I agreed to go each time. I told my dispatcher "Absolutely no New Jersey or down-state New York". It is non-forced dispatch and you can always refuse a load but that may be a load they need covered or may be the best/ only option given your location. They do a pretty good job of working within those parameters but on occasion will ask you to do them a "favor". Your dispatcher will ask you where you want/ like to run and if there are any areas you don't want to run.
You don't really have a whole lot of say as to where you run with Oakley. There is a good bit of freight in your neck of the woods. I started my O/O journey at Oakley and know many who did the same.
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