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    Hobby Lobby

    OKLAHOMA CITY, OK · USDOT 302821 · 521 trucks

    3.710 ratings

    Is Hobby Lobby a good company to drive for?

    Hobby Lobby earns mixed reviews from drivers, holding 3.7/5 across 10 reviews on pay, home time, dispatch, and safety. Drivers rate it highest on home time (3.9/5) and lowest on dispatch (3.1/5).

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    • USDOT #302821• MC #238758
    📍 OKLAHOMA CITY, OK

    Hobby Lobby

    Driver Reviews
    3.7/ 5.0(10 ratings)
    Home Time Consistency3.9 ★
    Dispatch & Communication3.1 ★
    FMCSA Inspection Stats24-Month Record
    Fleet Census521 Power Units

    "Dispatchers and managers are non-negotiable to hometime. Forced dispatch during inclement weather and no hometime for weeks for what is supposed to be dedicated…"

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    Based on 10 driver reviews

    3.7

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    3.9
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    3.1
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    Reviews (10)

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    Anonymous Driver

    Feb 6, 2026
    3.0
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    Dispatchers and managers are non-negotiable to hometime. Forced dispatch during inclement weather and no hometime for weeks for what is supposed to be dedicated drivers. HL will also swipe vacation time from drivers, or reset dates of vacation at the last minute after vacation has been planned and paid for. Good luck!

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    Anonymous Driver

    Mar 26, 2025
    4.0

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    Wife and I have been at Hobby Lobby for four and half years. We have been on only two different dedicated routes in that time. The first was roughly 5700 miles Sat-Thurs., but we wanted to be home on weekends, so we have been on this route going on 3 years, still ~5700miles Monday.-Friday. Typically leave out midnight on Sunday get home by 3-4pm Friday. Our starting pay was $98.5k/each, and increased at roughly $2,950/year. So this year we are on track to make $116-118k/each. Depends on backhauls and if they decide to randomly give us extra bonus pay, and raises that are unexpected. Our Quarterly safety bonuses increased from $700-800 to ~$2200 after the first year, it's based on miles driven. It was like one cent/mile now it is three cents/mile. We have just received a random raise last month, typically it is on the anniversary of your hire date, so unexpected for us. We get paid miles driven/hub miles, no zip code to zip code garbage, we reroute when needed to avoid storms and paid the extra mileage, we can shutdown when it is unsafe to drive, typically you get $20/hour for shutdown/breakdown pay. $20 every time you bump a dock, typically on backhauls you are in and out the shipper within an hour, and it is usually the same shippers along the route back to the terminal. Equipment has routine maintenance every 50k miles, you can take a spare truck for your load if you do not have time to wait for them to finish, we usually just take the spare. They prefer you to fuel at Loves, if need be, if not they fuel you up at the terminal, while they fuel you they crews top off fluids, inspect oil/coolant levels, tires, etc. they will send you to tire bay or shop if fuel filter or tire needs changing, typically takes less than 15min both shop and tire crews are fast and efficient. If it is a major issue you will have to change trucks. Big on safety, so shutdown if you have to due to fatigue or weather, no problem, done it plenty of times during the winter, when our reroute was unexpectedly shutdown. Always bring damaged equipment to shop, do not leave it for the next driver, they will fix it, stuff happens. Very easy company to drive for, they treat you well, and do not try to push you into unsafe situations. We will retire with them, the pay, benefits, home time, company culture, equipment, and facilities are exceptional, and I can not imagine too many companies matching their standards.

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    Anonymous Driver

    Mar 11, 2025
    5.0
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    I have driven 40+ yrs Hobby Lobby is the best company I have driven for, all the people are friendly and professional. Home time every week, dedicated routes, new equip well maintained a driver can easly clear $100,000 a yr. Dispatchers are respectful and try to work with you .

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    Anonymous Driver

    Feb 6, 2025
    2.0
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    Make decent money management will fire you for just about anything safety is always looking for a reason to write you up or fire you

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    Anonymous Driver

    Jul 14, 2022
    4.0
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    By far the best company my wife and I ever worked for. We almost didn't come to HL because of some bad reviews, like cargo container runs with no air ride ( thank God we don't sleep in the trailer) we can't tell the difference if we have a container of a air ride trailer. HL gives you a route after 2 weeks. This is great I know when I will be home so I can plan things. We run over 4800 miles off on Thurs. night go back Sun. morn. Alot of home time for OTR drivers EVEY WEEK. Making between $1650-$1800 gross a week. I can't believe anyone would say bad things about this company. They are always asking if everything is ok, how are you liking it, any problems they can address. We have been here 6 mths. And plan to retire here. I put 4 stars because you don't want to over look this review.

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    Anonymous Driver

    May 12, 2021
    5.0
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    Yeah. Can't believe any driver would give a bad review. This company goes beyond to accommodate drivers. Dedicated routes. Delivery to HL stores. No touch freight. Hub miles. Stop pay. Breakdown, detention, weather delay pay. Quarterly attendance/safety bonus. (Recently raised to .03 cpm every mile you run for that quarter. Stop here and take a second to add that up 5k miles per week for 12 weeks.).401k (80% match when you save 5%). Paid holidays. Christmas bonus. Great insurance. That's just the pay! Best maintained trucks. All automatic and refrigerator/inverter in each truck. (Has the on dash gear selector. Might scare a few drivers afraid to take their eyes off the road for a second. Or you could just let it shift. Automatically. Bc it's an automatic.) Container runs are unfortunately built in to some routes. And if you don't like doing them at the beginning of your week, they'll work with you and you can do them at the end of the week. Incidentally, if you're not happy with your route they'll get you a different one. Possibly a route without containers. Might take a few months, but this company does everything within reason to accommodate drivers. On site clinic FREE to all employees. Real doctors and MRI machine. FREE. They stay busy but drivers can walk in and they'll do their best to work you in. All the little things. Free bottled water. Enormous drivers facilities. Exercise room. Covered parking. Just best company I've ever driven for.

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    Anonymous Driver

    Oct 29, 2020
    2.0
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    Running shipping containers to Dallas from OKC and back is horrible for a team, containers have no air ride, co-driver gets no sleep, Probably the number 1 reason for driver turn over, the trucks are slow for team work 68, get a ticket the truck gets turned down to 66 for 3 years, slow trucks don't make better drivers, Auto-shift on the dash is super dangerous, you have to take your eyes off the road a lot should be auto stick , No driver seniority. PPTO is good but not setup for OTR drivers, doctors note or you don't get paid, HL has its own doctors office on campus but no walk ins, it's biggest problem is no real world experience in Transportation management.

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    Anonymous Driver

    Sep 17, 2020
    2.0
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    Hobby lobby transportation is based out of OKC, transporting to around 1000 stores all over the country, hiring drivers from all over except California,

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    Anonymous Driver

    Oct 16, 2018
    5.0
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    Excellent everything, this is a company you would retire from! For friendly staff, treated as a person not a number!

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    Anonymous Driver

    May 31, 2018
    5.0
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    5 yrs with HL, home approx. 60 hrs a week (thurs night, fri, and sat) Great equipment. We team and both net $3300 a month. 5K miles per week or more. Dedicated route, same stores, Comfy volvo trucks. Its a good living and we are not killing ourselves. Hope to retire there. Dispatchers always have something to be desired, that is why I scored them 4 stars. Safety bonus every 90 days for no tickets. no accidents Bonus is approx. a weeks pay. We make 26.5 cents per mile each. Any run over 900 miles one way pays 28.5 per mile each. They pay Hub miles. We do 3 drops a week, and in addition to the milage, we receive $7.50 each first drop, $15 for additional drops each. If a store keeps us over 2 hrs unloading, we get $3.75 each for each quarter hr kept over. Nice to get paid this while your snoring team driver gets the same. Whether your on duty or sleeping, we get paid the same for all drops. We carry a company credit card for hotel, truck fluids, scale tickets, fuel. If you have to pay cash for something, reumbursements is done within a week or less. We are very happy there overall.

    Hobby Lobby is a trucking company based in OKLAHOMA CITY, OK rated 3.7/5 across 10 reviews on Oculus Reviews — ranking #51 of 71 rated OK carriers. The most recent driver review was submitted February 6, 2026. Ratings aggregate reviews posted publicly about this carrier across the web together with reviews written directly on Oculus Reviews, covering pay, home time, dispatch, equipment, and safety. Companies can respond publicly but cannot edit or delete a review. Current operating authority and inspection history live on the carrier's official FMCSA SAFER snapshot linked below.

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    Hobby Lobby is an FMCSA-registered motor carrier based in OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — USDOT 302821, MC 238758. Check its current operating authority, inspections, and safety record on the official FMCSA SAFER snapshot. On Oculus Reviews it holds 3.7/5 from 10 reviews. Driver resource: how to report a trucking company for unpaid wages.

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