weekly hometime

A lot of companies are like this. They think home time is letting you see your wife and kids only long enough to do a reset. Most want you in the truck 1 minute after your reset is complete. It's BS.

 

Ohio..call Millis Transfer they have Regional home Saturday at the latest head out Monday...and if your load goes past your house take your 10 there...

Be Safe Out There

Captain Dave

 

There's options for everybody. Just have to find them. You may have to put your name out there and knock on doors. Look at private carriers near you. Think outside the box. These smaller outfits will not find you, you will have to find them.

 

Couldn't have said it better myself! I worked for a small company before going to where I'm at now and they were awesome when it came to dealing with home issues.

 

Well, welcome to trucking. I had a "local" home everyday job, made really good money, but the trade off was I was only home for 10 maybe 12 hours a day, not including commute time, I get more sleep running OTR. In OTR there are far too many variables to be able to guarantee anything, especially hometime and yes, most companies do only want THEIR truck to sit for a reset, because the longer it sits the longer it's not making them, or you, any money.

My wife and I currently are running a team expediting straight truck but that is at the point where I'm already planning to move on because we're not getting nearly enough miles for a team and anytime get stuck going to the west coast we sit for a couple to a few days, I hate sitting. So our new plan is for me to go back to class A OTR and she's going to ride along as a passenger. Hometown for us will not be important as I like staying out for a month or more at a time, but our kids are grown as well.

 

Ah, home weekly. Aka; feels like I never get a day off. I feel your pain. Sure you have Saturday off but all you wind up doing is get ready to go back out. That's no fun and I burnt out on it in 2 years.

Have you thought about just running the road? When you stay out 4 weeks at a time those 4 or 5 days off when you get back in feel like a mini vacation.

 

Heres how I see it, your on elogs so when you get your load if you can't do it legal tell them your logs wont allow that delivery time. There is nothing they can say. as for home time, you say your only getting a 34 hour so they aren't going to give you any less since they cant risk you running out of hours during the week. myself, I'm on paper, so I do my share of cooking the books so to speak, but when I know a run just cant be done, or Im too tired I tell her I cant make that delivery time. She don't like it but she either reschedules delivery or gives it to someone else. and as for home time, when you start to get burnt out just tell you dispatcher you would like two whole days off on a certain weekend, they wont say no, especially if you say your tired and need a break.
Communicate, tell them whats up, if you want to run legal let them know cause if you keep violating they will assume your ok with it and keep running you that way. Another thing to keep in mind is elogs might be new to them and dispatch just assumes you can do the run unless you tell them. and personally I wouldn't violate if I was on elogs, no way, no how.

 

And as for asking you to violate the HoS...
Well that's your call and yours alone. Just remember, if you get pulled in, the QC will just tell the officer when , where and how badly you broke the law as opposed to him having to look and find it. It's surefire csa points a ticket and maybe an oos.

I've cooked books in the past, so Im not trying to preach on high, but it's not worth it to me anymore. I have, and will continue to drop the hammer on any company that thinks they can push me around and I'll climb the chain. If the owner/ president dislikes a compliant driver then they aren't a company I want to work for.

 

I feel the same about the 34 hour thing. I could get home at 1:00 am, go to bed. Then wake up and go get all I need to run 70 again. Clean and stock the truck. Then you realize you spent 4 hours of your 34 messing with the truck. Your still kinda tired so you don't feel like going anywhere. So you just chill until bedtime. The next morning you start wondering when that spastic acting dispatcher is going to call and give you a load that he acts like the load is 6 months late and its hurry, hurry, hurry. Dam, if I could just get 12 more hours I would be good to go. I don't mind pulling in my driveway at the end of the week (or outing) with one minute left out of my 70. But Im married to my wife not the company.....THERE I SAID IT...lol feel better now