Patty, you've been in a bad mood the past few weeks.
Everything okay ?
a real wannabe/newbee question - how does home time work?
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Musicmaker60, Nov 2, 2013.
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Every company is different. Your start time and end time will vary. In a perfect world, you would be home Friday at 2pm and get loaded out Monday at 8am. You would drop your load 5 mi from the house and get a dispatch Monday 3 miles from the house. You might have hometime under a load with the truck parked in your driveway, reefer running with a load of berries. Can you say "babysit" ? Or, you might have to park it 2 miles from the house at the abandoned K-mart, which means you will have no funtime because you will be worried about the load in your wagon. Then again, if you take more than 3 days off, most companies have you empty out your truck just in case they need to use it. (that's about a 50-50 chance). Then there's the interrupted weekend, where you get a call from dispatch on day 2 of your 3 days off wanting to know if you're "ready to go"because there's lots of freight that needs to get down the highway. You'll hear something like "Well, you've been off for 2 days". But anyway Pardner, I'll leave you with one last scenario: It's called the "almost got home, but not quite" scenario. It goes like this, You're under a load, a hot load, with no time to play around, AND, you're going a lousy 30 miles near the house with no time to stop AND, you've been out for 4 weeks ! You can almost see Mama sitting on the front porch, but it ain't happening, at least not this time.
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