Millis OTR journal

I wonder if they're referring to people that take their home time libe I've been doing the past year. I've been staying out 6 weeks and coming home for 6 days, which is less home time vs. time out than company policy but they make it sound like they don't want is staying home any longer than 4.5 days regardless of howong we stay out.

I guess I'll keep running like I have been until they tell me I can't.

 

Yeah I saw that, wonder if people are just not coming back out when they say they will or if people are just putting in for to many days in a row.
Never occurred to me I should be counting the hours I’m home and not the days.

 

The way you do it makes more sense to me. It has to cost the company more money to get someone home every other week compared to once a month or every six weeks.

 

Yeah that's how I see it too. The only downside that I see is that they haven't been sending me home loaded as often since aive been running that way. I imagine it's hard for them to find freight that I can take home for that long, and it's usually a pretty long deadhead for me when I come home empty. When I was just coming home for 3 or 4 days at a time they could send me home loaded.

 

I'd like to hope they are referring to off the wall stuff some are doing regularly vs the kind of scenarios you guys are saying.

My first impression when I first saw the message is this has Heartland's fingerprints all over it. I am already at my personal tolerance limit for days out vs hometime. I'm sure people sitting in offices for 8-10 hours a day and then going home with every weekend off don't find working everyday of the week for 2, 3 or 6 weeks in a row to be a problem as long as its not them but I don't want to live my whole life in a box.

 

This is what happens when you work for a publicly traded company. It's all about creating "shareholder value" at the expense of the employees.

 

I did once. I stayed out for 6 weeks and thought I kept getting time off after 3 weeks. Found out that's not the case.

 

I'm at a Rutters truck stop in Milroy PA and it's everything a fuel stop isn't. It's clean, quiet with a huge parking lot and a nice store with reasonable prices. Check it out if you end up this way, there sure aren't many other choices.

 

The entire year that I’ve been with Millis, I’ve ran 12 days and been off 2. I leave on a Tuesday 0600 and I put in to be home on Saturday 2200.

 

I like Rutters. Always nice people, clean places and all that good stuff.