Do hot shot company drivers pay their own hotel rooms

You can legally stay in your truck, just log off duty NOT sleeper. If you do get a hotel room though, that question could be better answered by the company you're considering.

 

Often they will ask for receipts if you're over the road hotshot. During summer you can sleep outside legally lol. DOT is ridiculous when it comes to that with the pickup truck guys

 

Not saying they this doesn't happen but it's not common. I've been inspected more times than I can count and have never been asked for motel receipts.

As chasingthesky said as long as you log "off duty" there's nothing they can say.

 

Who said you can not stay in your truck at night ?

 

Must have a DOT approved sleeper or Lodging receipt. Its the law. You may or may not be questioned at a stop

 

Bullsh**. This has been covered many times.

Fmcsa reg 395.2

Definitions

On-duty time shall include:
(4) All time in or on a commercial motor vehicle, other than:

(i) Time spent resting in or on a parked vehicle, except as otherwise provided in §397.5 of this subchapter;

Now you show me where this law is about lodging receipts.

 

You pay for the hotel room.
Get a legal sleeper hotshot truck at lilbigrig.com

 

So much bad info is passed on here by people that don't know about running in a pickup. Chasingthesky is right, you can sleep in your truck legally if you want as long as you log it off duty. I've been doing it for five years. Never been asked for a motel receipt.

 

Sleeping in your truck may not be the most comfortable place to rest for 10 hours but it is cheaper. I wouldn't recommend doing it at a public rest area here in NC the State Troopers patrol heavy in there and it says no sleeping in vehicles. Not sure about where the truck parking is but on the off chance they run in there and see a pickup they might give ya some flack. Staying in hotels is nice though clean bed showers free breakfast YAY !!! but it can be costly if you don't have a rewards card or other discounts like AAA or OOIDA and others. Just my two cents. It is after all a tax write off and if ya stay a lot rooms can be super cheap. I paid about $160 for two nights in Shelbyville last week at an Choice Hotel for the truck show because of rewards and memberships.