Metropolitan Trucking - Bloomsburg, PA

The recruiter will tell you that you'll be home Friday night and have 48 hours at home. Any normal person would read that to mean Saturday and Sunday off, and back on Monday.

 

Because they gave you excatly what they promised,
48 hours off. Then they expect you to roll.
Your the one not holding up your end of the deal.

 

There's no way you've been trucking 20 years
And are surprised at a companies strict 48 hour
Home time policy.

You and the other driver complaining about this
Place act like this is your first trucking job.

If you got 20 years out here then you should know
Companies don't change for drivers.
You got 2 choices:
Stay and deal with it or clean out the truck period.

Some of these regional drivers need a reality check.
They want the OTR Paycheck's without going OTR.
They want the local drivers time off without doing
The local drivers work.

That's why I only do one or the other.
If you want the money, load up the truck and
Hit the road for 3 or 4 weeks,then go home
For a week.

If you want to be off from 4pm Friday till 7am
Monday then clean out the sleeper truck and
Find a day cab or box truck to drive.

If you want to be pissed off an angry all the time
That you don't get the OTR Paycheck's or the
Local guys time off, then do northeast regional
Freight and blow by the house during the weekend
For just enough time to spend one night in your
Own bed and wash your clothes

 

I think most of you pricks are missing the fact that I will and do leave out on Sunday when necessary without complaint, but if it works out that my Friday load delivers Monday close by, then I'd like to keep the extra "bonus" day at the house. Not have it taken from me...

 

Ok, this is total, grade A bullplop. Who in the Blue Hell are you trying to impress? Maybe you're like me and don't have much, if anything, to go home to. That's no reason to blast someone else who maybe has a family or friends that would like to see them for more than a couple hours a week. I stay out weeks at a time, but I don't have anyone waiting on me to come through the door. Hometime policies are getting worse and worse for anyone with anything other than that truck in their life. Families are paying heavy prices.

But just sit there and toss out insults...just one more Super Trucker who knows what's best for everyone in every situation.

 

Someone like you are replying to actually gets my pity a bit. Not enough to put up with him though.
I see it as a bit of Stockholm Syndrome. "If my life sucks, then everyone else must have a sucky life too."
Kinda sad he has to project his issues so hard he can not hope others have a better life.

 

Your safe place is at home. Leave the real driving to the people that can hack it

 

Average miles per week in the first quarter of 2017, 3482. That's with taking a week of to go hunting. My bet is you aren't even close to that.

Reckon I hack it pretty well.

 

Maybe I was not clear.Wasnt trying to get your goat sorta speak.I understand your want to spend more time at home but I also understand a company wanting to maximize there drivers hours.To leave a driver home to start on Monday a driver and company loses 20 to30%of revenue a week the truck can make .You say you been driving 20 years you know that to maximize your money for a driver who is home weekends you need to be about 500 miles away from home Monday morning.Now what I meant by getting a local job is a company can't restructure there operations to tailor to each drivers wants.But trucking has a lot of options different types of trucking with 20 years experience you should be able to find a company that operates how you want to work.as long as those 20 years haven't been with 20 different companies