Curious, how often do O/O generally stay out

Thanks spyder. I'll keep those options in mind with the exception of the 12 gauge...lol.

 

I have 2 trucks leased on to my brothers company. We are a small company of about 32 trucks. Half o/o and half company owned. Most of my brothers trucks stay local. A few of his do the same as I do. Most of the o/o do the same but a few like to stretch it out.
We have direct customers on the outbound side and a few on the inbound. Whatever they can't load we first go to a few brokers that we always use. Some of the places we haul for only use one broker so we have no choice. After that and as a last resort we will go to the load board.
We do have a couple of o/ops that like to find their own loads back home and when it's slow like this I will also look for loads. We have drivers that have established their own relationships with shippers also and can almost always get a load.
I would think it would be hard to work a schedule like we do working only on the load boards. A lot of our Return loads will only take us a quarter or half way back home. Pay on short loads back will be good rate per mile but you still end up with a couple hundred miles dead head. But when you add those in with the outbound rate you still do good on the trip.

 

say it again lol slow like this ... man.. its been slow as heck latley

 

When the market is good I'll stay out a month, take a week off and go back out. If the market is fair I'll typically be home once a week and the weekends. If the market is bad I'll stay home for a week or two and do 3-4 trips.

 

I'm a newbie o/o and haven't found the perfect blend yet. But I don't like to be out more than 3 days at a time...I pick my own so I can take vacation during the summer whenever I want, but on average I try to be home every other day.

 

Home every night, wouldn't mind going out every now and then

 

Long enough to make a crust and long enough to pay the rent and keep all the other debt collectors happy.

 

Out one night a week home every weekend