Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

Glad it works for you staying out as long as you do. When you live in Fl I would think you would want to be home and enjoy it. 2 months of truck stop follies every night and the joys of the truck stop bathroom at 6am every morning takes a special breed.

 

For me it's different. I'm single and can't stand sitting around not making money. Don't have any hobbies but playing video games which I have a whole setup in the truck. Dont have any home or apartme to worry about and just use my parents place as my home address. Last year I never went home at all for hometime. Whenever the grind got to be to much I'll just put in for a few days and got a hotel. Even with that I only grossed 75k on this dedicated. If I did that on the otr side with the longer trips probably would be in the 90k bracket.

 

Agreed, for you the change to OTR would likely make more sense.

 

Oh Florida....when I was otr for crete had a Pepsi load to pick up. Sat 5 hours on the side of the road to only be told that the truck they loaded ahead of me used the pick up # I had. Turned out the broker crete booked this load from double sold and also gave it to another company. Anyway I had to wait till the next day again on the side of the road the whole time since no way I'll find a truck spot at 8pm, and do it with no layover or detention pay.

Since the previous load no longer existed and my next load was a preload and not live so no detention. Could of talked to someone demanding pay but I just got hired on and didn't want to cause a ruckus for some small amount.

Regardless it leaves a bad taste in my mouth everything I hear Florida

 

That Pepsi load was from 2019. Was my 2nd load with crete. First was a Hobby Lobby load from Walmart to Florida with said Pepsi load from Orlando plant to some warehouse up North.

Anytime they sent me close to Jacksonville I always ended up picking up a heavy beer load.

 

I’m a barr nunn driver. Terrific company, great $ and easy to attain bonuses. I voluntarily took off from 4/1 to 5/1 when covid hit, went home the entire month to stay home w my kids. Still grossed like $96k for 2020. And I rarely leave eastern PA or NJ.