All you hot shot drivers; how many TRUE same day deliveries are you seeing per day?

This is a variation of the same question you have asked in a previous post.

What you should be asking is where are the short loads (So you can make it home every night to hit the clubs), with the short trucks, where the easy money is....

It doesn't exist.

No offense, and I get it. There are more than a few ways to skin the cat. Driving local in a nice short truck, with those easy loads, and get you home in plenty of time to do all the things you want to do. Tyler, this is what many wish they could have.

Truth is "Truck Driver" doesn't involve "having plenty of time to do what you want to do" in its language.

Angling the statistics to figure out where it is you can find that kind of job isn't going to get you that kind of job.

 

Go to work for septic company. They’re home before dinner time. Deliver home heating oil. Forget about being a hot shot, just go get a 40/hr a week job & go to work

 

40 hours? That's crazy talk!

 

Plenty doable if you try. But, you’ll work for a living. The truck will be a tool not the job

 

The key words here are “Work for a living”

I am in no way insinuating anything on the OP... I don’t know this person.

But from my view, professionalism and lack of work ethic are the two major things lacking in today’s younger generation. There is an expectation in general that with little or no experience you should be gifted a higher wage, a lighter workload, and a higher degree of respect. Paying any sort of dues is supposedly a creature of the past.

Which is why many will balk at the first sign of having to work more than 40... or weekends, or have to bite down hard on something to endure the path of a few broken promises.... they just won’t do it.

I don’t want to lump all of the generation into this... it’s the few that really ruin it for the rest.

 

I worked 44 hours this week and 45 the last.

But I’m not really a truck driver. I have an assigned truck but I do a lot of other things as well.