Linehaul question

LTL is generally home daily line haul can be out weekly or shorter depends on the company

 

Ummm... wrong what the last guy said. Linehaul runs between terminals. We call them turnpoints. Basically it means you "turn around" and head back home. We lay over 5% of the time. Some guys run on bids and lay over more by choice... mostly to get more miles. But no. We are not out for weeks. No idea why someone would write that. Even regional doesn't stay out for weeks.

 

Not busting your balls RR. what you said is true.
This isn't just a LTL side. Forget it myself all the time.

When i did line haul( local ) flat bedding simply a different language. We called it dedicated run around. Plant to plant ( terminal to terminal )

Different speak. same thing. OP threw in last sentence LTL.



#2 poster is correct also. Some Ma and Pa Shops ( LTL ) around my area does that practice as well.

yeah it's confusing.

 

Ma and pa set up is not your typical LTL. I kinda feel the OP wants to get a general feel for the big box LTL firms. What your local homegrown LTL guys do is one thing.... what the big league guys do is another set up. As for the key players... we keep our linedrivers out 5% of the time... In a hotel room.

 

Spot on. LTL is a weird world.

 

LTL is it's own genre within trucking. Anytime you go local, many people accuse you of "not being a REAL trucker". You run local for Coke... you are not a trucker. You work for a beverage distribution company... you run for YRC, ABF, MTS, OD, FxF, NEMF, CWF, or any of the other acronyms I forgot... then you are a "day cab driving driver.... making 50 CPM... big whoop, enjoy your daily hometime. you are still not a trucker". You can't win in the local world.

 

trucking is a life style, I am simply a door slammer and it's a job. go home every day beat the wife ,make her do laundry and do dishes.

Enjoy being a trucker, not directed at you RR.


Disclaimer: I have no wife. Thank goodness for my wallet and peace and quiet. my girlfriend husband is a trucker

 

ive never considered myself to be a trucker. Im just some guy who drives a truck then goes home