take your truck home

Your best bet is going to be to call the companies you are interested in and ask them. Most companies out there let you take the truck home but some don't. There are also different rules and regulations as to where they want you parking and such. Good luck.

 

Just about ALL the major carriers want you to take the truck home.

 

Taking the truck home can be a major hassle for the driver. I wouldn't work for a company that expects me to babysit their truck. First, your neighbors/cops might have a problem with a truck in the area. Second, taking the truck home as a regular practice means the truck isn't getting serviced by the company when you are off-duty. Being OTR is a big enough pain in the rear, why add losing time sitting around a shop during your work week, when the time off for the driver is the best time to service the truck.

When I was in CDL school many students thought taking the truck home was a benefit, not me. They thought it was a way to avoid having a second car in the family, one for wife and one for driver. I saw that taking the truck home was more trouble than it was worth. Not many homes, neighborhoods have suitable space for a truck and trailer.

This is why I always recommend drivers work for a company that has a yard within eay driving distance from home. Let the company and the mechanics babysit the truck.

 

Couldn't agree more. Leave them their truck.

I have enough to park a hundred trucks on and no neighbors to speak of and I still want to leave them their truck so they can perform maintenance while I do my things instead of he middle of my week when I am working.

 

not to jack the OP thread, I'm just wondering how much a trailer weighs. were I'll be parking the trailer the ground is a little soft this time of year ( removed 6 trees last year) the tractor will be on asphalt.

 

I'm guessing the trailer is empty. What I remembering having to do alot of times in alot of dirt lots was to position a couple 8 ft. long 4x4s directly under the legs before dollying down. On soft ground especially after a rain it helped to dispurse the weight.

 

I used to bring the bobtail home for cleanup and restock (food, clothes, etc) on my 34, assuming it didn't need any repairs. My depot was 16 miles from the house. Neighbors actually thought it was cool; many driveway chats over it, all friendly. Even dropped my kid off at school one monday... she and her friends were thrilled.

 

For New Drivers...

Please don't become a Truck Driver. They lie about your pay.
If you work and come home every 18 days or so.. you will only bring home around 30,000 per year. If you stay out for a whole entire year and never see anyone in your life or anything besides the truck.. you will make around 50,000 IF YOUR LUCKY.

It is just not worth it. I drove for 3 years and I am finished with the industry

 

For New Drivers...

Ignore trucker30, he is just jaded and angry because (according to him) USA Truck screwed him over. There ARE good companies out there and a lucky few of you will find them and have a ball, some will end up hateful. You roll the dice, you take yer chances.

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