Down time?

Hold it.

Regional means you work 70 hour work week. When you are out of hours you have two choices. Sit for 34 hours optional reset. Then go to work OR run a 8 day recap and work the hours given back to you by the 9th day previous. You are not going to always hae a full workday, and you WILL have many days dispatch will make sure you use ALL of your hours working. Before you chance to catch your breath for a simple meal. Much less a video game time.

IF you are going to pack all that, make at least sure that inverter is a pure sine wave.

Finish driving, decompress a few minutes, go to bed sleep until rested, get up and get to driving again. Don't be late and watch your schedules.

 

Dabble in the stock market with a few dollars.
Day Trading is what some truckers do. You can do this on a laptop computer.

 

Your assumptions of home time is amusing. But frankly you will get home when you get there after Dispatch is good and finished with your work at 10PM your first day. You will get home at 3AM and burn your second day sleeping, then having a meal with everyone then begin to pack to leave out on day three because your dispatch has started to bother you about a trailer loaded and ready 450 miles from your place and they are concerned you will be late on tuesday morning 1000 miles away.

 

LOL

 

I don’t know anything about schneider, but in my experience with regional hauls, you will often have a crazy schedule with loads often being slammed on you at the last minute. This can get frustrating when you bust your butt all day. You likely won’t have much downtime apart from your ten hour breaks and your weekly reset.

Not that I’m trying to scare you. Regional gigs can be pretty sweet if you don’t mind the sometimes-crazy schedule. I love it personally.

 

If you don't stand up for yourself in the beginning it can be that way.
Companies will often count 2 days off in hours (48)
And will start that clock as soon as you hit the off duty button.
Meaning end of shift on Friday they start counting and expect you back in the truck Sunday night.
Instead of ending on Friday and having sat/sun off.
I've also talk to several Schneider company drivers that were regional but wound up have across the country ,lol.
Are you going to be on a dedicated account?.

@gentleroger can spread some light on this probably.