Some OTR wisdom....

Let me see if I got this straight,someone out a month should not get hometime?Why is that?Far as driving 100 miles to get a person home,that is not unreasonable,many loads a driver has to go pick up is over 100 deadhead miles.Also if drivers give your DM a couple weeks notice that you want hometime,there is no reason why they can't find you a load close to your home.Companies don't even start to looking for a hometime load till a couple days before hometime.Companies are making thousands and some millions a yr in revenue.A hundred miles to get a driver home is just a drop in the bucket in fuel cost with companies.

 

First you said, you were 50 miles from the house. AND you said you "WERE FORCED to stay at the truck stop"
so which is it, 50 or 100 miles. Please keep your story straight (it goes a long way in believing you, which I never did anyways). As for home time, let me inform you that, in many instances, many companies will keep you out longer than you would wish to, it's part of the OTR life, one in which you did not adjust to.

Who are you addressing this to??

Hopefully, not me, as I have a 72 mph truck, and I have a "dedicated account", which means I do not sit at truck stops, and talk with "trucking bozo's". The only times I am at a truck stop is to fuel up, get a coffee/danish, and boogy down the road, back to my warehouse. I actually work LESS THAN a 40 hour work week, but get paid like I worked more. Ah, dedicated, gotta love it.

you say you "don't work cheap"??

Excuse me, I was laughing very hard at that. If you work for a trucking company, that almost didn't (or did, straight facts here please), let you go home, you're working cheap.

 

when you give out the wrong information, you are apt to be disagreed with.

I don't know who can that be? If they are no longer in business, or screwed you, why don't you just tell us who they are (or were)?? Why would you "protect them"??

Uh DUH, you cannot maintain the same speed constantly. That is next to impossible. if you set the cruise control, or use the throttle, you (say) do 62 mph, you may only be "averaging" 48-50 mph.

I never had to. I always managed the miles. Did you stop way too many times at the truck stops to play the video games? I personally think you just can't handle the job of trucking. You best had better get out while you can.

Again, much in the way of wrong information. Inexperienced drivers are hired by large companies, many that are "self insured" by the way. The lowering of the speeds of the trucks are "two fold". One is to cut down on fuel consumption, (would you PERSONALLY like to pay what, $4.59 or $5.00 per gallon of diesel??).

And the "two tier" speed limits ARE dangerous, but it is the way it is. As a so-called professional, which you SHOULD HAVE BEEN, you should have been able to handle this.

Fuel costs are NOT fixed prices, as fuel costs fluctuate on a daily basis. So in of itself, it is not "overhead". Truck payments, insurance, maintenance are "fixed costs", never fuel...

Again, you really do not know a ###### thing of what you say.

(you should give up while you are this far off the track about trucking)

As far as the o/o charging what HE DOES?? he has what, one truck, maybe one trailer? Of course he can ask for more. But the "benefit of the larger carriers is the abundance of trucks, trailers and drivers at nearly any given location, thus cutting costs to the customer.

Again, you really do not know a ###### thing of what you say.

And what is wrong with this?? It is a business after all.

Again, you really do not know a ###### thing of what you say.

No, you made yourself out to not being too intelligent about trucking, and spewing not so true information.

 

KUDOS GIZMAN....i was gonna weigh in on this but ya beat me to it brother... I like the guy in another post who ran 5600 miles in a week at 62 mph with 5 stops....

 

Uh.... I ran 5500 in a week. In a 55mph truck, long time ago.

Nobody said it was legal

 

and you didnt stop did you...lol...

 

oh i could run 800 or 900 a day if i drop the hammer across the southwest into say texas and run 6000 a week...but i would prolly be in jail...or so dang tired i would fall asleep driving... use to run outlaw back in the day...but it was from point a to point b..