Any Time to Enjoy Life on the Road with Team Linehaul?

With OTR there was always a chance to trip plan some nice jogs through parks. For example, my wife and I used to stop at the rest area on I-70 in Dotsero, CO and go on a hike up in the mountains for a couple hours before starting the day. That was solo OTR, but I imagine team OTR you could also find find stuff to do when awake time schedules overlap. In solo OTR, every week there were moments where the schedule was flexible and you could trip plan around such points of interest. In linehaul is that pretty much out of the question? Like if you stop for more than an hour they start whipping you?

 

We hardly went out of route. It's pretty simple. You can look up all the stops on your route and see where the nice areas are. We like to hike and go for runs, so we looked for truckstops that were located near big parks. In TN, there is a truckstop just across the street from Parker's Crossroads battlefield, which has some very extensive walking paths. In MN there was a nice rest area (on a highway, not interstate) that had a pretty big trail network. The rest area on I-70 in CO was right next to this very long trail in the mountains. So long, that we never figured out how far it went. Del Rio, TX has a nice creek that flows through a park, which we swam in many times when on a layover down there. One time we even took some biodegradable soap and had ourselves a bath in it. Just little things like that. Of course, If you were hauling doubles your options would be much more limited. That was the benefit to otr.

With doubles though, since you know you're going to be at certain terminals all the time, you could get a gym membership in the town with the terminal and bobtail there on PC miles. Which ltl companies would allow this? Do those companies let you live in the truck? That level of consistency would be nice compared to otr.

 

So you fasted from Sunday to Friday?

 

So what's the longest they let you park the truck?

 

In that case the question would be how long can the truck be stopped during that 5-day period? I don't get those companies. Would they really be against the idea of a team grabbing another quick out and back load for the last two days of the week?