****Class A CDL Owner Operators****

****Hiring Solos & Teams in Johnson City, TN****

****Solos, Earn up to $300,000 Running Your Own Business****

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**Owner Operator Solo and Team Opportunities Available for Household Goods**

Berger has openings for regional/long-haul drivers in our household goods and new product distribution fleets. Join a company where our team cares about your success as much as you do.

If you are excited by the opportunity to drive for a growing, well-established transportation company, contact us! Berger is committed to safety, and requires you be at least 23 years of age with a clean driving record and no felonies.

****Drivers Enjoy:****

* Owner Operators earn up to $300,000 annual

* Also hiring Teams with HUGE earning potential

* Hiring nationwide we have 16 convenient terminal locations

* Sign-on bonus as well as referral bonuses

* No Forced Dispatch

* Agent for Allied Van Lines in business for over 100 years

* Fully equipped trailers

* Limited truck leasing available

* 24-hour emergency service

* Pet/Passenger Programs ask for details

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****Requirements:****

* CDL-A

* One year minimum driving experience

* Own Your Own Truck

* Clean Driving Record

**Owner Operators**

The information below provides insight into how working as an Owner Operator (also referred to as an Independent Contractor) may meet your expected lifestyle, work into your long-term career plans, and provide the working environment you seek.

At its most basic level, an owner-operator (OO) is exactly as it sounds a driver who owns the truck he or she operates as an independent business. For many truck drivers, becoming an OO means you have reached the pinnacle of the truck driving industry. You own, or have financed, the costs of your own truck in your own name. You decide who you will contract with, when you will contract, where you will drive, and the cargo you are willing to carry.

An OO is a "free and clear" small business owner. Likewise, those searching for freight shipment often prefer to deal with OOs and will pay more when the opportunity is exists. The fact that an OO, by definition, means the truck's owner and driver are one in the same removes the financial burden of a carrier or company hiring, training and maintaining extra drivers when demand sinks to normal or below normal levels.

Aside from the personal characteristics needed to be a good truck driver, an OO needs to have the knowledge and ability to operate within the industry and maintain mutually-beneficial relationships with clients. These client relationships must be developed to a level beyond that of any other type of driver. As an OO, you have reached the top of the heap when it comes to truck driving. There are no shortcuts, and through experience, you need to know how to react in virtually all situations ranging from personal interactions to truck repairs to working with your accountant if you are subject to an audit.

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**Team Drivers**

The information below provides insight into how working as a Team Driver may meet your expected lifestyle, work into your long-term career plans, and provide the working environment you seek.

A team driver is a driver operating with a partner who shares driving duties and other tasks with the other partner. Delivery is much faster than utilizing a single driver, as Hours of Service regulations can be met for one driver while the other is resting. Team drivers often consist of spouses driving together or partners in an owner-operator situation. Likewise, an owner-operator may hire on another driver for the sole purpose of serving as part of a two-man team.

In some cases, a team can be formed by two individuals who may own a truck together or when one works for the other driver. But more frequently team drivers are the result of carrier or company programs that pair up drivers to provide the benefits a team arrangement offers. Of course, these teams must be carefully selected and monitored. People do not get along for a variety of reasons. A team that gets along well, communicates, and has similar goals and expectations of the job is going to be far more efficient and productive than a team that does not like driving together.

There is nothing as important to team driving as the personal relationships built between the partners. Aside from the personal characteristics needed to be a good truck driver, a Team Driver must be able to work day-in and day-out with a partner. Youll likely recognize that a team driving arrangement complicates and trumps any other issue you may run into in terms of personal characteristics.

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Different types of materials require different types of trailers, and each type of trailer offers drivers its own challenges. Therefore, it is important to understand what is required to not only drive your truck and your freight, but the trailer you are pulling as well.

When referring to household goods hauling, the term is not necessarily another way of describing dry van hauling, although the two have much in common. But household goods are those carried in moving vans or moving trailers, equipment often rented or contracted for people relocating substantial distances from their previous homes. For the purposes of this description, household goods hauling refers to the use of tractor-trailer combinations in moving personal belongings from one location to another.

A household goods driver needs to have all the characteristics of a driver of any type of equipment; however, patience, flexibility, friendliness, a willingness to answer question, and respect of both people and the cargo being hauled are magnified. When people hire owner operators to move their earthly possessions cross-country, chances are it is the first time they have had direct interactions with the trucking industry, so they may be very concerned about the delivery of goods and they will ask lots of questions.

In most cases drivers in the moving industry are like dry-goods haulers. They typically dont need any endorsements other than those provided to all CDL holders. Occasionally, some hazardous materials may be on board, in which case the (H) Hazardous Materials endorsement will be needed.

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Truck driving route type vary within the industry and are dependent on several factors including interstate trucking requirements, route planning, type of cargo hauled, frequency, hazardous materials restrictions, driver experience, etc.

**Over the Road (OTR) Routes** are likely those that most people with minimal knowledge of the trucking industry envision drivers working. OTR routes can be regional with occasional outside of region assignments or they may be cross-country to make one delivery or several along the way. OTR drivers are generally paid by the mile and are on the road for much of the year with limited home time.

**Regional Routes** are routes within a specified geographic region. The region may be as small as a few counties in a state, a state itself, or a number of states. Regions are o