Taking your truck home

Everybody can take their truck home provided they have a safe place to park it. I'm going to be parking mine about 15 miles from my house at a truckstop. You take the tractor and a trailer with you. Usually you will have a load that takes you through your house. If you are taking extended home time you will go home with an empty trailer unless they have a load that has a long delivery window.

If you want to drop the trailer at one location and then bobtail to your house they would like it to be within 10-15 miles and you will have to show them your kingpin lock before you will be able to get permission to drop the trailer.

All of this information is based on what I've been told so far in Orientation/Training. I'll know for sure tomorrow.

 

A truckstop 15 miles away aint safe first of all. Is too far. U need to rent a yard space. I did that a couple times only over night and I coulnt sleep just worried bout my truck. I moved closer to our yard just cuz of this reason. I drive a 150k truck unloaded think about that for a second hey u gotta do what u gotta do.

 

I park the trk and trl 10 miles from the house at a gomart trk stop.they usually send me home empty because I live in a hard to get freight area (wv) I take 4-5days off for every 3 weeks out..

 

I started in flatbed back in the 90's I liked it it is considered trking for those who want exercise, you rarely deliver on weekends very little pickups at night , some companies pay a little more then van and when I had to tarp I would use the tarp pay to purchase a motel room for the night to wash up and relax thata way you look forward to tarping and rather then look at it as a pain in the butt , but rather as a reward.

 

Yes flats get home most (not all) weekends for 34-48hrs typically.

 

That sounds like a great idea but I think the tarp pay to hotel room ratio hasn't worked in the truckers favor. We get $25 to tarp a load. You would need 3-4 tarps to pay for a hotel room with running water at that rate.

 

Bro he said "back in the 90s" and "used to" back in the 90s diesel was 1.89! Ya digg? Jajaja

 

OP wind is a issue for trucking no matter what kind of freight u pull. As far as load securement well there is this little book from the DOT that tells u how to tie a load down but it dont teach tarping (although I wish it did thinking back to my first time) so dont be afraid to jump in.