Working 6 months out the year

You'll be better off doing this type of schedule pulling for a FedEx contractor or a Chicago outfit but you'll be on a 1099

 

Your insurance needs to be active to keep your MC number active.

On another note, you could haul dirt during road construction season.

 

I thought about it too, but 6 months out of trucking means your pass experience might not matter anymore, to some companies, you're a fresh student so here take this .28cpm we pay students and have fun.

It would be nice to take a month or 2 off, but I like how my resume look with most of the trucking companies i worked with atleast over a year time put in.

 

is it possible to deactivate your MC number and insurance and all else for a certain time then reinstate later on, or does that require an insane amount of hoops to be jumped through?

 

if you worked for the same company, and lets say hypothetically you take off 3 months a year, after 4 years of doing this wouldn't it just show as 3 years with that company?

 

You can change the status of insurance or at least I can for a dump truck no MC# just DOT

 

If you are technically still employed, then it will be 4 years, for example medical leaves. Might not get paid when you leave but still have a job to go to.

But voluntarily leaves basically means you quit but good standing and able to be rehired.

There's a post here about a swift driver who did this. Took months off and came back about 4 times. Eventually they stop hiring him back, no employer wants to hire someone who just gna quit a few months later.

 

TransAm has or had a couple of drivers that did that.

 

like at random times when he felt like it? cause I get that being a problem, but what I was more considering was like Jan and Feb each year off to avoid the worst of winter. I mean if you let them know ahead of time your intentions of doing this every year I wouldn't see it being a big enough problem to not hire back over. I don't know. what do you think?