Any local drivers commute a long distance to work?

116 miles one way to work, drive 7 hours go to motel then head home after rest and 116 back to the house.

 

Is there any chance the hours may change with seniority? From nights to days or less hours etc. anything time on the job that can change for the better?

 

Yes dude, I don't travel as far as you do, but it is pretty far. My commute takes about 45 minutes to 1 hour on the way there and 28 minutes on the way back, about a 33 mile one-way trip. My first job, worked me 8 hours a day, and for that I commuted 88 miles one-way, 5x per week. That is what I did to get experience as a driver, to be home every night with my family. I've never gone OTR a day in my life.

But yeah, the commute sucks so bad because I deal with the entire SF Bay Area rush hour traffic coming back into the valley, so the roads all bottleneck at major intersections. Half of my commute is spent in gridlock/stop and go, and avoiding rear ending somebody. When it rains, there's a fatality accident almost three times a week and I leave extra early for this because people don't value their own lives. I seriously, seriously hate my commute so much, that this led me to taking a new job with better pay, much closer to my home, and avoiding the bay area rush hour traffic. I'm sure you know what the Altamont looks like at 8AM from Tracy to Livermore, right? That's how getting to work is for me, at least on my way there. It's not so bad on my way home. But I only have a couple of more days to put up with this.

 

Do you just rent? Ever consider moving? I drive 17miles one-way, cannot imagine further, am usually home by 5:30 / 6. Am local driver too . . . thousand/week, benefits with every other SAT worked (always off SUN) / and holidays OFF. Would never do OTR again . . . it's pure SLAVERY, but then again COMMUTING far sucks too!!

Traffic is only gonna get worse . . . not better, don't mind getting paid OT to sit in it but when OFF too??

 

Jesus Christ, MORE expensive than San Francisco?? I used to live in San Jose. I was actually down there last night eating some fine indian cuisine. I had to pay $10 to park for 1.25 hours. The Sharks game left me battling pedestrian traffic and we drove around aimlessly. I ended up accidentally, at 1 Hacker Way in Menlo Park (Facebook Corporate HQ), trying to get on the Dumbarton Bridge. Man, it is sad that San Jose is so cost-prohibitive. I had some of the best times of my life there, met my wife there and fell in love for the first real time there. It sucks that we'll never be able to lay down roots like we should because everybody is priced out. All the old spots are also pushed out of town, the coffee shops are closed down and everything is gentrified, redeveloped or closed. It doesn't even feel like the same old place anymore, with all the transplants from every corner of the globe moving there to work in a tech startup for 4 years. :\ See you at the rack, I'll be the guy who looks terrified and lost as he masters the new routines of an unfamiliar place.