Going over the road regional

are you going over the road or running regional, two totally different things

 

Good luck with it, try your best to separate the job from home, know when you get in that truck you need to put forth a good weeks effort, then start think about going home, you can not immediately think about being home when you leave out on Sunday, it will be the longest 5 or 6 days of your life. I speak this from my own experiences, I've been local for 7 years but when I moved I had to transfer in to a regional position, I was able to stick it out about 3 months before I began hunting anohther local job, luckily for me I was able to transfer back to local with my current carrier, and this is where I feel most comfortable. Just understand it's not a walk in the park, if you're a family man and enjoy your wife's company it's going to be tough, but it can be done, I just hope you didn't take this job for the sense of adventure, hopefully circumstances with your local job led to this, I hate to see people leave good local jobs because of this sense of "freedom" of the road, it's just not there, but again these are just the opinions of one driver, me, not all the others on here. Best of luck, and keep us updated.​

 

I know what you mean. You'll find that while the "question" may sound funny to an experienced person, they would much rather you ask than mess up.

I did regional for about 1.5 years. That meant I was gone 5-6 days a week and home for a 34 hr break. Occasionally, I'd take a 10-12 hr break at my house, just based on the load scheduling since I live only 15 miles from my terminal. Just my luck, it always seemed I was sleeping when wifey came home from work....

 

Good Luck. I'm getting ready to do the same thing here soon. My wife wants to move back south to warmer weather and so it shall be lol. You know what they say if momma ain't happy ain't nobody happy. I've been a regional driver for the last couple years home every weekend and 1 day a week but I don't mind going back over the road though as long as I can get back home every couple weeks for a couple days.