Oversized loads specialized stay in hotel?

All of the guys here pulling superloads are driving daycabs and they stay in hotel rooms. The other guys pulling regular oversized might stay in a hotel room but some prefer staying in the sleeper. Sleeper also means you can do split berth.

 

I sleep better in my truck than at home or a hotel. I have an awesome mattress topper and cotton sheets.

True, many oversized outfits run daycabs to reduce tractor weight and maximize the weight they can carry. Therefore long hauls require getting a hotel.

Another type of driving also gets hotels and that would be drive away. Any time you see brand new tractors piggybacked that's drive away. You can't smoke in the truck and you aren't allowed to sleep in the truck.

Drive away is a fast growing part of serving the oil industry. It's often a messy job, driving beat up equipment, but it pays well and you get hotels on long hauls. I did opt to sleep in the truck last winter, when temperatures dropped below zero. That was in order to idle the truck overnight. The guys that opted to stay in the hotel had to turn off their trucks because they only had one key. They couldn't start their trucks in the morning.

 

I would say getting into heavy haul just for the hotel room would be a very very very bad idea. I just pull a regular flatbed and there is some days i am so worn out i could sleep on a bed of broken glass outside in a blizzard and not wake up. Id say ltl is ur best bet

 

If you want to sleep in a hotel that bad, go pull new vehicles out of the mfg plant. While there are some sleeper car haulers, most are not.

I don't know why someone would prefer a hotel over a sleeper anyway. Well at least not everyday. Of all the hotels I've slept in, maybe 2 I've gotten good sleep in. All the others have either a too hard bed, too soft bed, too much noise, etc
Sure the shower in the morning is nice, but it never overcame the lack of restful sleep.

 

Parking at the motel may be limited.

 

When you finish your 14 hour day at 1-2 am, you won't want to now go and find a motel, check in, then be up by 6 am for the continental breakfast and checked out by 10 am, just to now go and sit with your truck for 1-2 hours waiting for your day to start again.

Staying in a hotel is nice for vacation, when you have time to run through the rigamarole of the front desk and transportation in and out of the place, but a big reason why sleepers are still a very big part of trucking is because of the convenience they offer the driver. A 10-hour break disappears really quickly when you have to shower, eat and do some laundry, and still sleep 6-8 hours to be ready for the next day.

I'm not sure why you'd want to stay at a hotel over using a sleeper (you'll make more money based on the less time you waste moving between hotel and truck), so why not just get a local job and be home every night?

 

Are you still driving for Central Oregon?

 

Any oversize is off the road between dusk & dawn. No 1-2am’s or split sleepers needed.

If you’ve only had 2 good night sleeps, move on up man. Time for Hotels not Motels. Move into the Hilton’s & Marriott’s of the world. Holiday Inn Express is an ok in between.

Forget Motel 6, Red Roof, Econo Lodge, etc... that’s where you get bed bugs