3 questions regarding the truck itself

Most of the companies I have driven for send the truck home with me, I try to not take too much with me anyway. Depends on the company.
I have driven for some where we dont even finish the whole shift without changing trucks, but thats not the norm, The USPS contractors I have driven for some loads I would pickup in Los angeles, then trade tractors and trailers with another driver in the vegas area and come back, drop and hook in LA at the DC and head for Kingman and do the same thing trade both power and trailer.

Other companies I have worked for I have put 5 to 600,000 on the same tractor and trailers, kept them at my house. So it could go either way.

 

The really good companies would consider that your truck, you kept it. Until it accumulated a million miles or something what with all the wear and tear associated with it. As a team we burned out brand new tractors until they were about 225K and then got a new one to burn out while some lucky solo got ahold of the old team truck. (It's been well maintained, just rode really hard and put up wet)

The worst companies make you change trucks every time you turned around. I remember one had me a white commander COE (Ugh...) then the next day a suicide mack cab, then some whipped international three axle and to cap the week in a GMC astro with a turbo icepick in your ears with nothing working on the dash. Everything you did including fueling was approximate. A guess. You had to guess right and time out the mile markers to keep your speed legal etc.

Lots of fun.

One company Port East loved to have a row of tractors with smashed windows, no exhaust or god only knows what's else is burned up (Wiring, no heat, no air no anything) and have you take the keys at 2 am in the morning. Some of those trucks got totaled under extreme weight loads with me. (Might as well. Cheap enough to replace them)

One company, Dowdy in Batesville he gave me his Road Trip truck on request in a yard full of T2000's which themselves were really nice. But the FLD 120 and I were a very good fit with the big horse detriot and short rockwell.