Pay and Mileage when starting trucking?

I'm not sure what that has to do with being with a roommate, unless you are uncomfortable reading to yourself with someone else in the room.
Ya, I could get that.

For me, I would just want the room to myself and not have to put up with a stranger that is strange and intrusive.

Which I did, by the way.
I used my room voucher for my half, and paid the other half in place of the other person.

 

I tried to stay out at least 3 weeks. Each company has their own home time policies. Just depends on which company you go with. I stayed out 3 weeks because I like to keep the wheels turning and wake up in a different state or city every day.

 

I had hazmat when I started.
A hazmat load paid an extra $25, for all the extra hassle involved. Not worth it, so I dropped it at my next renewal.

The only time I was ever pulled over at random for an inspection was simply that I was carrying a hazmat load.
Rather funny that. When the officer started the inspection he was stung by a bee. Started feeling funny so he cut me loose.

 

The same as now. Home every 4-5 weeks for 3 full days.

Like Chinatown said, it depends on your company... and maybe your terminal and DM.
The drivers at my terminal like home time more often, and I am always being asked why my home time request is not in yet.

 

The tanker company and the reefer company offered me local/home everyday and I turned that down. I like coast-to-coast and border-to-border trucking.

 

Yes and hated it. Traffic congestion all day, every day.

 

That's how I was at first too.
Then I was talked into doing the Great Lakes Region to help out in that area, and I liked it so much that I stayed with it.

It is still like OTR, just a smaller area where I don't have to go to places I don't like.
The east coast, west coast, the deep south...
But I still stay out for the same amount of time.

I also don't have obligations that need me to be 'home' more often, which other do.