Linehaul at night?

i've come to realize that workin at night sux, i'm goin back to day shift. lol.........

 

I have done one day shift run in 20 years. It reminded me how much it sucks because all the crazies are on the road as opposed to only a limited supply on the night shift

 

You’ll be back
Night shift is the right shift

 

i'll do my last run at 2am and then be back in the city monday morning..........yeah......

 

I don't mind weekdays, but weekend days the office nitwits come out and try to drive. It's like rush hour all day.

 

I just started doing linehaul at night. I mostly run the i5 Corridor down to Bakersfield area and back towards the Bay Area. Nothing like it, I love it. No BS at all, just drive in a straight line on a desolate freeway in the middle of the night, no resistance, cruising at 60MPH for 3-4 hours in each direction. Radio blasting. It hardly feels like work and makes 12 hours fly by. Literally showing up for work and just sitting there until it's finished. I decided to try it first before diving in full force. The only thing I hate is breaking up sets of doubles, but they've had me pulling a 53' lately. Meet and greet the other driver, stop for 15 minutes to drop and hook, and then drive back home on the same desolate road in the middle of the night. On a clear night I'm cruising this and can look east and see the entire Fresno skyline . There's something reassuring about doing the same exact drive day in and day out. It's the safest job I've had because there is literally no traffic at all for the entire shift. There really is something satisfying about traveling in a straight line for 4 hours in each direction. Not having to meticulously concentrate on the moves of other drivers (like in fuel delivery)--it makes for a seamless experience. Not as if I am actually doing work, but rather work is simply getting done as I sit there listening to the radio as the stations fade in and out over hundreds of miles

 

screw that. Day time line haul is where it's at. Live life like a normal person.

 

Depends on where you are at . I would never want to do this gig in San Francisco Bay Area rush hour traffic. I just want to sit there with the cruise control on focusing on the radio and watching the scenery change.

I think I'm a convert to line haul. I'm sure I'll never do fuel delivery again after having such an easy gig

 

yea, I see what you mean. I out of Indianapolis. Traffic here doesn't get too terribly bad, nor any of the area we run out around. Except Columbus, OH. That place is a disaster right now during the day.

I hear ya on Fuel delivery. That's what I was doing before I came over to LTL. Did it for 5 months, and I was out. When the weather was nice, it wasn't bad. Rain, Snow and cold though, it was terrible. Not to mention some of the sketchy neighborhoods you'd have to go in and deliver to.