Hotel for the night

Amen.

 

well said

 

I don't get enough time off anymore usually. I like to have about an entire day off if I get a hotel so I can enjoy it. In the paper log days I used to get a room about every weekend and had a grand time. It's a good way to get out of the truck and get refreshed.

 

This is a fine piece of wisdom. Icarus?

 

I'll stay in a hotel once, sometimes twice a week. I try and save their acquisition for when I can check in kind of early in the afternoon and/or don't need to check out too early the next day. I refuse to live in sardine can 7 nights a week, 3-4 weeks at a time.

I always look for hotels with adjacent bar/restaurant to help unwind. I use the receipts at tax time to itemize and reduce my adjusted gross.

 

Also, if you're going to stay at hotels from time to time, take the time to sign up for their various "rewards programs". Most aren't great programs but are better then not accumulating any points at all. I've stayed 2 free nights at Holiday Inn and 2 free nights at Best Westerns in the past 45 days or so but will have to start paying again to accumulate more points as I have mostly consumed all available on those 2.

 

I'm no Dr but I did stay at a Holiday Inn hotel.

 

Thank you. It's good to know that I'm not the only driver out here who thinks like this! Sure seems like it sometimes. I see way too many truckers drive like four wheelers i.e. recklessly. They put their paycheck above safety which is short sighted and extremely foolish. I spent the last three days running further and further behind on my load because of weather, four wheelers and fellow truckers. Yesterday I had to hang back well below my normal speed because the interstate had truck after truck after truck tailgating one another in both lanes with cars sandwiched here and there. I guess no one ever taught them "leave yourself an out" or "following distance". All I could think was: this is how pile ups happen.

Anyways, thanks for this. Really needed the pick me up!