How often can a truck driver expect to make deliveries or pickups late at night or in the wee hours?

Are such deliveries and pickups getting more common as schedules are adjusted to save fuel money?

It all depends on what you are hauling.. seems like if you are hauling produce you have a 50-50 chance in being late night-wee morning.

A good dispatcher that knows the hours you like to work will try to work with you in this case. but the thing about that is you will be limiting your weekly mileage.

Typiclay most copanies are open around 7am and close around 5-6-7 pm and you will be deiliver around those buisness hours..

If I was to guess I would say 75-85% or more would fall into that category

When I was in a dry van it was maybe a little higher
Reffer it seems like I get alot more late hours.


Myself I drive all night deliver early AM or deliver when I wake up.. I am a night person really but it does not bother me to deliver anytime..


I know alot of people who just drive when the sun is up and thats it. will not move during the night period. As a new driver you don't have that option usually.. need to get a few years in with a company then you can pull stuff off like that..
Night drivers usually call those guys the "Solar powered truck drivers"..
To be honest I don't joke about it lol I always tell the drivers I rather have them sitting at a truck stop at night then being out on the road if they don't feel comfortable doing so..

Too true, TruckerJo.
When y'all can and will run ANY time, it makes it soooo much easier.
And, as an added bonus, if y'all run the nights, the Big truck truck stops are usually less crowded and parking places are MUCH easier to find while the "Solar Powered" groups are out clogging the highways.

Shower, eat, catch some -- fuel, and do it all over again --- well rested and less frazzled.

I pull a dry van and have found about two thirds of the shippers and consignees are 24 hrs.

It's fairly common (about 30% of the time) for me to pick up or deliver between 10 pm and 6 am.

Well they always say when getting estimates get three then take the guy in the middle usually...
well in this case I think we are all the same...run at night the cities are sooo much more fun then construction USUALLY is halted at night on the smaller highways and rural areas, you can always sleep while they are trying to pull that rabbit out of a hat and dispatch you on your next load.....and I truely believe you make more revenue in the end......

My "end" doesn't make much revenue.

OHHH I am going to be sooo sore from all this laughing

Solar power drivers. Now that is funny. How does that work? Ten hours on duty and fourteen hours sleeper berth? What about the five hours waiting for the forklift driver to fill the truck? That must be sleeper berth time even though you just hit the dock after sleeping. Drive time starts at 1pm and it is dark by 8pm. I WANT TO WORK FOR THAT COMPANY ON SALARY because I did not even pay for my meals on the penny per mile scale.

Twue stowy -------

I have personally known Big truck steering wheel holders who, if loading was completed around, ........ oh, say, ........ 4:30 --> 5:30 PM,would seek shelter at the nearest Big truck truck stop for the night -- and until the sunrises again, but not before.
And two of those folks called themselves a "team".
YuP!
Husband and wife --- team.
Both sleepin' at night.
And never run in the rain day OR night.

And after 3 weeks on the job --- they both wanted two weeks of to "get over all the stresses of Big truck truckin'" and life "on the road".
Running only the south/east -- out of Tennessee.

But, ....... I digress .........................
Or, did I ?

I am going to slammed for this one but don't ya just love the ones that run a legal log book oh I didn't say that cause we all turn in legal log sheets right????? But alas w/QC and Elec logs and other devices creeping their way into the industry us that have been here for a LONG time will soon be singing "thoes were the days my friend" and yes Shockey I can see you running that tune through your mind....at least its not Brown Eyed Girl......la te dah! Oh Yea
Yea I need some vaccation time myself just the stress of being on the Truckers Report alone should merit time off....not to mention keeping track of loads fuel tickets miles and tax records.....oh geeze its just too much
And we wonder what has happened to this country!