Anyone run a day cab?

Yes, the fuel prices 4 years ago were relevant to my post because I was giving the reasons why I decided that a sleeper wasn't worth having on the truck I was going to buy at the time I was in the market to buy a truck.

And I still do make money staying in motel rooms when I go on the road....just spent 2 nights on the road last week. When you total up all of the expenses you incur when you idle the truck all night at a truck stop, plus add the value you place on the "comfort and convenience" factors available in a motel room that are unavailable in a typical truck sleeper, it is cheaper to stay in a motel than it is to idle a truck all night.

 

2 nights in a hotel room last week is not OTR.
"comfort and convenience" dont mean jack sh&t! If it did then every trucking company out there would make sure they got their drivers home every night.
Again, you can make $ with a day cab but not if you are OTR paying for hotel rooms every night. 2 nights last week is not OTR, I am talking about the guys who stay out on the road for weeks at a time, or even a week at a time, time and time again.

 

Who the H*** want's to run OTR?

 

Me and a lot of other people, theres nothing wrong with OTR.

 

I was really enjoying this thread then it all went to hell in a hand basket. lol

 

More power to you but when I can make more money staying local and actually get to live in my house...........you can have it.

 

You have no sense dummy... read carefully... that man makes a whole lot of sense from a business point #######!!!

 

Good job calling someone a dummy from a thread that died almost 6 years ago.