Holidays, Birthdays

Hi BigPete-Welcome to TTR!
You are pretty new so I hope you enjoy it here-great place great people loads of fun!!!
for my situation so far no-hubby is on a dedicated route and is home most weekends. Only been OTR for 6 months so time will tell about big holidays. He was home for Memorial day and my birthday (recently) so far if it's like a Friday or Monday around his weekend he can get the day if he requests. They just schedule his freight/runs around the requests. I don't think he will get ''vacation'' though even though we have already got a place reserved. So far he has gotten all his requests. I'm a nurse so I have spent a career missing holidays and get togethers-suxs but comes with the job I guess. I think it really depends if you are dedicated, strictly OTR or local.
A suggestion for you: years ago d/t so many nurses in the family- we decided why is someone always missing a holiday etc d/t work-so we started to plan holidays around work time etc. For example Thanksgiving is the Sat before or after the actual holiday depending on who has to work what-same with Xmas. This way no one misses and then you also can go to your other family (married) just an idea if you do decide to get into driving.

 

and you will miss lil Johnny's baseball games, it will be hard to throw the ball around with him. it's very hard to raise a kid through a cell phone.

 

BigPete, I hate to rain on the parade, but MOST any special event, and Holiday, you will not be able to attend.

As someone else stated, in the trucking business, you will be out on the road, for MOST holidays, events, birthdays, anniversaries, births, and deaths and funerals.

It's just the nature of the "beast" of this life-style. And mind you, this is NOT just a "job", it IS a "LIFE-STYLE".

And a lonely one, at that. My husband and I are lucky....both sets of children are grown, and I can be on the truck with him. Another plus is, I ENJOY it, for the most part.

Judi Kay

 

If you haul strictly oversize you can get most major holiday's off. You can't move oversize loads during holiday's in most states. That is all I haul and I'm alway's home for holidays. Birthday's and anniversaries are another story though.

 

Christmas in California, but you live in Illinois.

2 days later in Georgia, still not home yet.

 

Not all.. Never missed a Holiday driving and if I need a night off I just request it off now - if I don't think it will be approved I simply say nothing about it and call off. Not all driving jobs are OTR.. I've never been married and have no kids but OTR was brutal when I was 21 and single. I would consider the local work if I were you..