In what situation can you take winter off

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That's the way it is at lots of companies. I've known plenty drivers who go home right before Thanksgiving and do not come back out til February or March. In my line of work, the holidays hurt because
1. The state offices that issue OSOW permits are closed
2. You can't run on major holidays in most states.
3. You can't run the day before or the day after major holidays in many states.

So sitting at home all winter is something that lots of the guys in the OSOW do when they don't have a truck note. Odds are too that you will miss all that de-icer and road salt and won't have to require your truck n the spring.

I didn't take the entire winter off, but I did go home for the entire month of January. Went back home 1 week in February, 1 week in March, the entire month of April. If they have a big load that's got stupid money n it, I will leave the house to get it, but usually I will return to the house when I am done.

 

hell why would you take want to take off the winter. just pull under a different type of trailer and truck on. I am typing this as I sit at home drinking coffee because roads are closed to my destination, take the day off.....no drop the loaded trailer hook on to the flat bed and haul hay.

 

Your truck your schedule. Just remember one thing though. All vehicles get vindictive when allowed to just sit. Batteries go dead, a dead battery or a bad cell can damage an alternator and vice versa. Just cranking the engine is not enough. I know a guy that let a tractor sit for almost four months. He got it cranked, but had to call a mechanic to come out and free up his spring brake. No matter what he did he could not get that spring brake on the right side to release.

 

When you're a snow plow driver in Florida

 

Nobody has ever told me, nor will they ever tell me, when I have to work. For years little things like wanting to eat and have a home to come back to were the deciding factors but once my house was paid for and I had no debt I worked when I wanted. The problem was I always wanted to work. My mother used to tell me when I was younger that I had 'itchy' feet and the only way to scratch it was to hit the road. I guess ultimately the only one who can decide whether you should/can take winter off is you. As it should be.

 

Wow that G Anthony guy is a tuff super trucker. I hope one day i can be like him. But probably not cause i figure after 26years out here. If 8m still a scaredy cat guess i will al2ays be a solar powered fair weather driver. On the plus side that MAY be why i have over 1.5million accident, incendant,ticket free miles. As a bed bugger

 

well i only have over 2 million myself, closer to 2.4 in fact. and nearing the end of my 28th year.

we (back in the old days) used to call "fair weather drivers" as Mary's.....

 

You drivers are funny.

 

Lots of work out there, Aaron. If you want the winter off, take the winter off. Xray made a good point about the truck just sitting there for months, if it's your truck and you're not turning a company truck back in. Don't pay any attention to these naysayers, negative attitude, name calling trolls. It's all about you, brother. If you want to stay home this winter and pat your lady on the fanny, more power to you. In fact, congratulations! Best. J

 

im scratching my head,how does taking winter off make you a dispatchers dream?What makes a dispatchers dream is drivers who stay out for weeks,never late,never complain.