Hotshot Pickup Truck Driver — No CDL

Louisiana freight splits along clear lines. In the south, the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans is lined with refineries and chemical plants, and the coast from Port Fourchon to Lake Charles serves offshore oil and the LNG export terminals near the Texas line. Acadiana around Lafayette is oilfield service country mixed with sugarcane and rice. Up north, Shreveport and Bossier C
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ity sit on the Haynesville Shale gas play, and the central and northern parishes ship timber and wood products. I-10 is the spine: Lake Charles, Lafayette, the long Atchafalaya Basin Bridge, Baton Rouge, New Orleans and on into Mississippi. I-12 bypasses the city along the north shore, I-49 climbs from Lafayette through Alexandria to Shreveport, and I-20 crosses the northern tier toward Dallas and Jackson. Hotshot work in this state is full of oilfield and plant maintenance loads: pumps, valves, pipe, rental tools and turnaround equipment that was needed on site yesterday. Heat and humidity run hard from May through September, so keep plenty of water in the cab; a long wait at a plant gate in August gets brutal. Hurricane season, June through November, can shut the coast down for days. Once your four weeks of hauling are done, Texas and Gulf Coast traffic makes the trip back into Louisiana realistic from many directions. You'll get weekly settlements and a dispatcher reachable while you're out. If this is your part of the country, the form below is where Louisiana drivers sign up. Pay is a percentage of gross, not a per-mile rate; active drivers average $9,000 weekly gross. No CDL is needed for the pickup position, and the company provides the truck.

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