No home, no job, worth it?

Normally you price your load in with enough clear to go out empty to your next pickup... just sayin.

 

Now the ops question get yourself a cheap motorcycle, easy to park up at the terminal and easy on the pocketbook for cost

 

every company is different on whether you take the truck home (or anywhere you designate hom to be this month)
most dont make you park at the terminal and unless you are hired specifically for slip seating the truck is yours till you quit

 

This would be a bad idea because most find out in a few short months they aren't trucker material. Or you can have an accident then find it hard to find another job. So selling off everything in my book is a bad idea. You may downsize and cut expenses, but until you have a firm grip on how this industry works. I wouldn't make any major moves.

 

Oh please. I live in Florida and it is not bad at all. Like the other guy said, it is just hard to get freight out of there, especially where I live in South Florida.

 

My company has an approved route we follow into Hunts Point in the Bronx... precise to the point of which lane to be in at which intersection and off/on ramp. There is a right turn onto a bridge that you need to button hook to make without dragging the trailer along side the tress and that button hook takes all of two and really most of the third lane to make it... in traffic without some schmuck trying to run up your right side. Oh, and did I mention this is with your tandems slid forward so watch the trailer swing while making that turn because an impatient driver in that third lane will try to get around you there while you are making that turn...

Yes New York is that bad, and Jersey City too.

 

i have heard (cant say for sure) but there are quite a few megas that, if you dont move that truck after two or three days, someone else gets it

 

The one thing to keep in mind if you go the no home route- if you do not have an address where you are paying bills for like utilities etc, then you cannot claim the per diem as being away from home, since you don't have one. And this may put you in a different tax picture!

 

One of our drivers that did this, rented a storage facility and used that address with the storage room number.. It was only about 3 blocks from the terminal. He even put a cot in it and tooks naps there while his truck was in maintenance, etc. Got some mail there also. He used that address for several years. He was a regular nomad. I walked down to see him one time and he even had a lot lizard in it. Bought a real small used motorbike, lightweight, one guy could easily pick it up. Carried it behind the sleeper on the catwalk. Out on the road during layovers, he used it to go to malls, etc. Quite a resourseful character.

 

nothing wrong with, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade (though i disagree with the lot lizard part)