Daytime work and being home every night

I'm contemplating the move to line-haul myself. But the only thing that scares me at the moment is the prospect of the extraboard life of being moved between day and night driving depending on the needs of the given dispatch. Night-time, I have no resistance to. Day time, you're exposed to all the drama and other nastiness that abounds during the day.
Not to mention if you're driving back and forth along some less-than-stellar route and scenery, the darkness tends to hide all the garbage and you let your imagine take control.

 

There's quite a few daycab type jobs in the area of the airport. Wouldn't hurt to take a drive around the area.

 

I ran the same times on the extra board. I'd usually call my terminal at the start of the week around the same time and no matter when my 10 was up, I woke up at midnight and called the terminal to get a run. I liked starting at midnight-1am and a lot of times they wouldn't have anything right at my 10 anyway. So i just put my self on a set schedule and no one ever said anything and they always had a run ready by midnight for me.

 

ODFL is still on the fence for the moment, but I'm going to give Estes another go-around. See if it's any different up there. I work nights and weekends all the time. Was about to go FedEx Freight, but then the ball got dropped on that one due to their M-F only schedule. Many people kill to get that, while I'm one of those off-fellows that's too scared of spending rec time with "the normies".

 

The run I'm doing right now is a Tues-Sat and I like it. I like having Monday off. Can go do things while most people are at work.

 

Ugh. Sunday is kind of dead day and Monday always has the chance of falling on some dreaded holiday.(I'm at that age now where holidays are in the same realm as fairy tales and such. Complete garbage that should be ignored with impunity.) I had those same days off years ago when I was working security. It was fun not having to deal with crowds. But then there were other activities that occurred on other days of the week which I couldn't realistically get to without playing hookey.
Right now, I've had Weds/Thurs nights off for the past, 2-3 years. And before that it was a 5/2 and 5/3 schedule. I've got a little, social circle I ride bicycles with on Thursday nights and if my days off were to change, it would probably result in more solo rides, or finding a less chill set of people to do the same thing with.

 

Maybe try something in the construction industry like cement mixers, moving heavy equipment etc.
Some of those jobs pay significantly better than LTL, but you won't work much in the winter.

 

I had another shot with ODFL for linehaul. But the prospect of no real set days for awhile and having to babysit the phone was a deal breaker for these and a good chunk of LTL companies. I'm possibly just going to stick to other tanker outfits and those that actually put you on some sort of set work nights.
Working nights one day and then switching to days another would surely rattle me out of the game after not too long.