Why do so many companies not allow you to bank hometime?

What Trump? Don't be fooled Trumps loves foreign workers. He imports plenty of them himself. That isn't going to end. The Trump family looks to hire foreign workers while celebrating U.S. labor.

Hopefully after the incident in NY he will keep his word about stopping the visa lottery program.

 

If you was to take that many days off your company would give your truck to another driver.I don't think its that much of a pain to route drivers home every month.All the load planner has to do is go to the load board online and find a load in your city or within like a 50 mile radius then once you're unloaded you dead head home.

 

USA truck does (or did a year ago) allow you to bank home time. Now you will need to ask there policy on home time location but I believe it's anywhere in there operating area some companies only allow home time at your residence on file.
Also they do not have a school but will do tuition reimbursement if you qualify.

 

On OTR I was home every Thursday night come hell or high water and went back out Sunday night. Always knocked off 2500 to 3000 miles. Part of it is letting the company know what you will do for them...its a two way street.

 

At my company you can take up to 10 days off before they have you clean the truck out. You may wind up getting the same truck back if it hasn't been reassigned though.

 

This is actually a big reason why I bought my own truck.

 

I've tried to make the same point several times.

The company does not see it that way. They only see how many days in a row that the truck will not be running - not how many it has run up to that point.

If we want to fight this situation there is only one option, as far as I can see.
And that is to request home time as often as is allowable, just to make the planners work harder and mess up the system.

If every driver in the company requested a 2 day home time every 2 weeks, it would hose the system.
(At my company you need a 12 day turn around, so basically every 2 weeks.)

They rely on drivers staying out longer.
Routing someone to a certain point by a certain date can be difficult, and to make them do it more often makes it even more difficult.
And even at my company, a home time request is a valid reason to turn down a load.

 

What they don't seem to understand is that home time loses more time that the actual time off.
3 days of home time seldom equates to 72 hours between loads.

My first DM told me that my home time is not 24 hour periods between when I unload the last load and pick up the next one.
If I worked the day I get off it is not counted as part of a home time day.
Thus, if I deliver on Thursday at 1600 (or even 1000) and take 3 days of home time, I come back on Monday.
That is Friday, Saturday and Sunday off as my home time days. Then I come back on Monday. 3 FULL days off.

I don't still have that DM, but I still go by that.



Many of those people in the office have 2 days off per week - Saturday and Sunday.
But their off hours are not simply a 48 hour period, else they would go off duty at 1700 Friday and be expected to be on duty at 1700 Sunday.
That is not the case. Why should it be for us?

 

My home time is counted as the first full day of no work. There have been times when I unloaded and actually got home in the morning, but home time didn't officially start until the following day.