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Lmao....I'm prolly not a very good candidate to preach on a soapbox about OTR stamina....
I STAYED OTR for FOUR years once just to pay a bunch of stuff off! I about went insane,but got it paid off. I would not advise anyone to do it, I just had goals to meet,everything else was second. That in itself was a problem.... NOW..oh no! Not going to happen,but we know these companies will do it to whomever they can do it too. We live and learn...well sometimes I have to "relearn" ..lol

 

You stayed out for 4 years without going home??? HOLY MOSES!!

God bless you and your family!

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

no god blessing the rest of the world??????

 

God bless the universe.

 

you think they really care?

 

Transam Pete is right. There are so many people knocking down doors to become truck drivers that the companies have the pick of the litter, as well as the prerogative of saying what their truck driver employees will do in the way of job performance. There is no NO SHORTAGE of truck drivers in any way, shape, manner, or form whatsoever. It is an Employer's market, NOT an employee's market.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

Yea but I am sure there are many companies out there that have no problem getting drivers home after being out five weeks. I don't think asking to be home after that amount of time warrants "not" being an OTR driver

 

some drives have the mentality that being out for weeks at a time is the only way they are going to make money. they also keep there days limited to 8 hours so they never run out of hours.

they don't think about running there hours out during the week and being home on weekends. doing a 34, instead of sitting at truckstops more then they work.

 

On a previous post, on another thread, I had mentioned that one way to solve that problem is for the federal government to revise the law to continue with the 14 hour workday, however, drive 11 hours a day, 7 days a week, totaling 77 hours a week of actual driving. All they would need to do is to take their 10 hour breaks, on a daily basis.

Do away with the 34 hour restart, and do away with the 30 minute mandatory break within or after 8 hours.
Truck drivers are full grown adults. They know their bodies well enough as to whether or not they need a break. They are NOT children in the school yard needing a monitor to tell them it is O.K. to take their breaks.