3 Mo. On 3 off - 6 on 6 off?

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  1. bensway

    bensway Bobtail Member

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    There are many older experienced drivers who either cannot or do not want to work a full year.
    I am one of the 100's of drivers that work just the summer in Alaska on a contract, not considered a full time
    employee, but seasonal contract. Why do trucking companies not offer the option of 3 month on 3 months off or 6 months on 6 months off, rotating 2 drivers ideally in and out of one truck. Seams like there are 1000's of
    seasoned drivers on the sidelines that are to tired and beat up to work all year or financially don't need to work all year, but might like something like this. Not 67 yet. Feedback Please
     
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  3. Judge

    Judge Road Train Member

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    Some do, Helena Chemical/Helena Agri.

    Have a 9 month on 3 month off, or like 6/6 month, split.
    3-4 months on, then off a couple months then like 2 months Sept & october and off like first to mid November
     
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  4. Grouch

    Grouch Road Train Member

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    I actually work 10 days out of the month. I do a relay and the days I do work, I am right back home. One week I work 2 nights, next week 3 nights. I run on weekends, my choice. I would rather work the weekends than week days. The relay driver I meet does the same schedule as I do.
     
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  5. Chinatown

    Chinatown Road Train Member

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    Can also do that through Trillium.
    Work when you want to.
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  6. mud23609

    mud23609 Medium Load Member

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    If your upfront about it there are many companies that will work with a driver that wants to run 6 months on 6 off.

    Or you could also consider seasonal positions like construction or ag work.
     
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  7. Pepper24

    Pepper24 Road Train Member

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    There’s many opportunities to do exactly what you’re saying.Who are you talking to.Nurseries,Flowers mulch and driver services companies Fed ex @ups doing Christmas season ice road truckers
     
  8. DRTDEVL

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    You just have to open your mouth and ask, lots of places will do that. We have seasonal part-timers, snowbirds, even a "reverse snowbird" (semi-retired, drives all winter, than flies off to his villa on the Adriatic Sea to enjoy the summers). Farmers that work the summer and winter but take the spring and fall off for planting and harvest. Literally every work schedule imagined exists.
     
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  9. REO6205

    REO6205 Road Train Member

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    If you live in an area that depends on agriculture there will be plenty of part time jobs. During harvest there are never enough trucks and drivers.
    Our company employs a few drivers on a part time basis driving water trucks on wildland fires. There's no guaranty of a certain amount of total wage but the hourly rate is good and it pays ot.
    We use a lot of our own retirees to fill these slots but occasionally we'll have to hire a stranger.
    A guy down the road from me hires fifteen to twenty drivers every year for harvest hauling, tomatoes, walnuts, rice, and grain. They work five or six months and then they're done. He usually has the same crew every year but occasionally he has openings.
    Point is, just here in northern California alone, a guy can make a decent living working part time. He might have to hustle a little the first year setting up his contacts but that falls into place pretty fast.
     
  10. ncmickey

    ncmickey Road Train Member

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    Not quite the same….. but We have a guy at the company I work at that is a 72 year old. He works…. Sometimes?….. when he wants.
    He may work a run one week and then you may not see him for a month… then two weeks in a row… whenever we had a busy week or a driver call in sick they would ask the old timer to work a run. He comes with a small gym bag.. only gone a night or two at most… He said his wife likes him getting out of her hair and make ‘out to dinner’ money…
     
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  11. Frank Speak

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    JB Hunt used to have something similar. It was 12 weeks on and 4 weeks off.

    An old high school buddy of mine used to be a recruiter there and hit me up about it. I wasn’t interested.

    That’s been a few years so I don’t know if they still offer it or not.
     
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