OTR drivers Post your end of year 2023 stats.

I’m not one to ever tell a driver how to run himself. When I first started trucking, I ran for a reefer company out of Missouri and I lived in North Carolina. I was staying out 30 to 45 days at a time. At first it just seemed natural and it didn’t bother me but after about two years of it I just hit the wall and completely burned out. It wasn’t so much to staying out that long at a time, it was more because I couldn’t get anything done in my personal life. I couldn’t get work done on my vehicles, couldn’t even get an oil change, didn’t have time to make a doctors appointment, and I started getting behind, and stuff started piling up. Didn’t file my taxes. Nothing. it was because I would go home, unpack, do my laundry, cook a couple meals and head right back out. Burn out set in quick and hard-core after two years of that. The first year I worked at that company I only had 18 days of home time. I won’t do that again. No paycheck is worth it to me. But if you can do it all the more power to you.

I think in the new age of trucking, the rule of thumb is roughly 6 days out for two days off. Or you try to keep that ratio. I never understood why companies all across this country give their workers two days off every week and us Truckers had to be fine with one. Lol I don’t mind staying out 2 to 3 weeks at a time but if I stay out more than two weeks, I want four days wt home.

 

no I’m not 1099, but I included everything in there. We get paid for all kinds of accessory pay at the company I run for. I typically run coast to coast. Sometimes I do a big giant 6000 mile loop around the whole country.

i’m just not seeing it must be this forum. Everybody runs 350 out of 365 days a year and seems to love it. Lol then I talked to other drivers and they’re always home. They stay out two weeks and go home five or six days. they’re off for a month because they had surgery, then the surgery didn’t go right so they’re on FMLA for another two or three months. Lol some drivers go out Monday come back Friday and if they hustle, they can even get back Thursday night and don’t go back till Monday and they do that every week. but you never hear about those drivers on this forum.