In theory, and on paper this is a better job than it actually is. 37.5 cents a mile, (recruited at a different rate of course) a lot of hours are wasted due to lack of preplanning, while theoretically 3000 miles a week are possible, and I have hit it in the past, it is not the norm. You show up to the shipper to get a preloaded trailer and are told thru have no trailers.. please put your empty in a door and when the one forklift driver we have comes back from lunch he is going to load 4 other trailers and then get to yours..and that has happened several times, having spent about 40 hours in dock doors so far this week. Good Equipment, no qualms with maintenance, if something is needed, they spend the money and make sure it is safe and legal. They preach safety and then tell you, have to get to this shipper now now now, don't care about weather or conditions, the load pick up appt is more important!!!! Mostly short runs, 150-400 mile runs are most of what I see, and I spend more time in the dock, than on the road. Occasionally I'll get treated to a nice 800 or 900 mile run, but once or twice in my 18 days out. Getting home can be tough, they route me the opposite direction of home, the day before I'm supposed to be at home. Then, once they get me a load home, it cannot deliver before or after Home Time, so yes.... You guessed it, I get to interrupt my home time in the middle of the night, to go spend 9 hours getting the load live unloaded at it's appt time. Very poorly planned and no communication, until it's time to be done. I plan on speaking with the Employee Relations Manager at my first opportunity, as I am newer, I may have had an unusual experiance, not the norm? I hope.