If I want to get home more often during OTR I should burn up my hours

Not true; you could run out of hours 2000 miles from home.

 

Do a local or regional job for more hometime.

 

Running out your hours is your method to get home more often? I suggest you recalculate

 

....and don't believe anything a Navy SEAL sitting at a truck stop coffee counter tells you about HOS or anything else.

 

I know it brother. They are often the ones that classify as super truckers, super everything

 

Driving an average of 11 hours a day means OVER 11 hours on duty. After 6 days of doing this your going to be forced to do a reset because you will not pick up any recap hours on the 7th or 8th day. If you have the freight run like heck. However be advised driver with those kinds of on duty hours your going to start growing tired of having to stop after 6 days go by. I know I did it for almost a month. Thankfully that situation I was assigned to got finished. Honestly stay as close to an 8 hour day as freight will allow.

 

Local with hourly pay.

Sleep every night in my own beddy-poo. No strange showers; no strange hours. No stench of piss-baked concrete; no fungus on my feet. Hell.... I talk to dispatch every third week.... Dues were paid; sacrifices made. I lived in a truck briefly, but I'd never do it again. So, 'part-time' trucker, I am.

 

Now that's what you call poetic advice

 

It's very Seuss-ian, now that I look at it.