What is your schedule like, how many days do you work?

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by 6wheeler, Oct 17, 2013.

  1. 6wheeler

    6wheeler Road Train Member

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    I was just wondering how owner operators out here besides my self work.

    How many days a week?
    Do you work on weekends?
     
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  3. 6wheeler

    6wheeler Road Train Member

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    I normally work 4 days a week and do not work on weekends.
     
  4. Freightlinerbob

    Freightlinerbob Road Train Member

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    I typically burn rubber for 2-3 weeks straight and then head home for a week or two. If it's time to go home and I'm a day away, I put it in the wind.
    Unless a load goes home, then I take what I can get. But now I'm pushing hard till Christmas because I want to take an extended time off.
     
  5. 6wheeler

    6wheeler Road Train Member

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    That's running pretty hard.

     
  6. Freightlinerbob

    Freightlinerbob Road Train Member

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    Not really. My current truck has 850,000 miles in 8.5 years. There's guys running 150,000 miles a year out here.
     
  7. MrMatt

    MrMatt Light Load Member

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    I ran between the north west and the ohio valley for close to 28 years. I use to spend a night in one of the hotels in yakima and 2 days at home. the run took 10 to 12 days depending. the last 10 years of it. I owned a 15 truck company running the same lanes. never took loads to the north east,south east or texas. didn't interest me to go there.
     
  8. marmonman

    marmonman Road Train Member

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    it varies for me there are some months I work 14 or 15 days a month then there are others that I work like 5 or 6 .
    I cant remember the last time I worked more than 20 days in a month .
     
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  9. rollin coal

    rollin coal Road Train Member

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    Year to date there have been 290 days in 2013. Looking at logs I've worked 136 of those days with a bunch of "10 hour breaks" at home on some of those work days. 75 days left in the year I'll be right around 6 months of actual working days in 2013. Last year I worked really hard - logged right at 7 months worth of working days. When capacity is tight I'm working. When it's not I'm at the house. Cause I'm running a business not a charitable organization.
     
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  10. Cat sdp

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    I do local asphalt work , 1am-3pm Monday to Friday . Take weekends off, no hours left anyway. Can't wait till winter so I can get some rest.......
     
  11. Ezrider_48501

    Ezrider_48501 Road Train Member

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    most weeks get home Saturday night in time for supper and leave back out early Monday morning.
    some weeks get home late Friday night leave early Monday morning.
     
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