Disregarding MVR, why don’t you work LTL?

Because I’m only 22 and like waking up somewhere new everyday. If the mythical, solo coast to coast dedicated run that was 2700 miles back and forth constantly existed, I don’t know if I’d ever go home. Because that’s not feasible, I go home every 4-5 weeks instead.

Probably healthier to be home everyday. I guess I’m the odd one out that thinks that sounds miserable. If I had kids and a wife, then sure, I’d much rather be home.

 

The home time thing doesn’t always work out. For me it was 0900 start with 10-11 hour day minimum. 45 minute commute on either side. Net result was out the door 0810 or so and not back till 2045-2145. Barely saw the kids and wife and eating dinner at that late hour then going to bed at 2300 to be up 0715 or so didn’t leave much quality home time and probably wasn’t that good for me

 

I’ll add this too. Linehaul is not all it’s cracked up to be either. R&L was all out and back runs unless you ran team or what they call a system driver that is a solo guy in a sleeper that bounces terminal to terminal for the week. Most line haul runs at night say 2100 or so and later. For years I had driven and the family was used to me heading out on Sunday afternoon when I ran tankers and for a private fleet. We figured it’d be a wash running Friday night into Saturday morning or early afternoon. It wasn’t. For us it just seemed to kill the weekend giving up those Saturday mornyhours as opposed to Sunday mid afternoon. In addition, as a floater with no set run, the desirable longer better paying runs tended to get scooped up by the senior guys Monday through Thursday but dumped on the lower seniority guys on Friday night. So Monday through Thursday was report time of 2330-0030, home 0830 but Friday turned into 0001-0100 report (to catch up all the freight from the week) then a 550 or 600 mile turn so you were back in the yard 1300-1500.

I’m not busting the current LTL model but it’s not for everyone and it’s not the brass ring if the trucking industry

 

OTR was the best years of my life, it was 2007 and I was 22. Just me and the Cafe Risqué along the I-75