Covering Vacation for O/O

Aside from the "not letting anyone else drive my truck" club (of which I am a member), I think you'll find the hiring legalities cost/time prohibitive unless you maintain your own authority. Otherwise you'll have to go through the hiring process every time (DOT background check & pre-employment drug screen) you work for a new company or go more than 4 weeks between runs...

 

Dy, for weeks, four months or four years. It doesn't matter as long as your "employment" never lapsed. I've taken three full months off while leased to Mercer. Didn't have to go through anything except keep sending my logs in while off duty for those 3 months.

 

This would be good for an O/O that had dedicated work. And would not want to jeopardize the account by not being able to service them due to vacation

 

Yeah, the biggest issue (legally) is that if you're maintaining your "employment" you'd need to be ready to pee in a cup within 3 hours' notice -- kinda hard if you're out hiking the Appalachian Trail

 

I may be wrong but what you did was still working for one company. The op was talking about working for different o/o's.
Even if I were going to let someone else drive my truck, it would take as long to get all of the pre-employment screening and checks done, some of which would require my time. Then the time to get him oriented to the truck and my customers and to clean my stuff out of the truck. By the time all that was done I could be back from vacation. I just park mine and don't incur any extra expenses. I also use it for maint projects that I may have been planning . If it is repairers that have to be done right away and I am not turning the wrenches then I just go hunting or fishing.
Not sure how he could maintain his own authority and do this.
I think a small or med sized fleet would be the way to go. If you wanted to do this.

 

Lot of dope smokers on that trail. Lol

 

Welcome to the forums Daren F. Lots of decent advice above, so I'll leave it be. BUT I did that for a buddy years ago. We were both brokers. I got out and got into masonry work for a bit. My buddy had a local excavation side and 2 OTR over size trucks/trailers. We spelled each other off between our construction work and running the 2 trucks to NYC. Worked great for a few years. Only reason I stopped was I sold my side and moved back closer to where I was from. 'Luck

 

LMAO !!!!