Folks who work/worked Line-haul, how's the lifestyle??

I got a interview with XPO tomorrow. Terminal is 4 minutes from my house.

 

21 h/r with over time. Home daily, All I need single and just want to make money enjoy life.

 

I'm with xpo. Have been with Conway/xpo for all 17 years. Any questions, feel free to message me.

 

I'm totally screwed if that Saturday after-work nap is less than 3 hours. And if I do get 3, I'm pretty exhausted by bedtime. If I wasn't able to pull it off reasonably well I'd never do linehaul. Some drivers keep their night schedule on the weekends, which seems miserable to me. If I had to do that, I'd quit--no matter how good the money is.

 

I'm at a barn with enough seniority that I can do daylight linehaul or work nights. Way more choices for nights - and more miles. I go back and forth between daylight and nights. Daylight is always better on my body, better quality time with the family.

I've tried all sorts of ways to manage nights. I don't know how some drivers can just stay up the whole day after their last night of work. I've found that I need to take a long nap, at least 3 hours. Even then, I'm not 'right' till Sunday. Most of our night runs are M-F.

If I was single, I'd stay on my night schedule on my weekends. I don't have problems during the work week, but my weekends are rough.

Pay is outstanding. We have runs that are short enough that you don't even need to take a 30. We have long runs that are 12 hours but pay 100k. Most of our drivers average 80k a year. I'm on a run that's 90k right now, and the daylight run I usually take is just about 80k.

Linehaul is all I've ever known. I would not want to do P&D. OTR is out of the question because I have a family, and I'm not interested in being away from home - and for much less pay.

 

^^^
Yep.

 

Coffee and a lot of it for me in the days after a long night. Usually a reload at a dock some distance from the pre-sunrise delivery. That dock is sometimes a chance to get a wink of sleep and be ready to put away another 600 to thousand by next day.

It's a young man's game.

Regardless the end of week after a goodly number of hours worked the weekends are invested in sleeping and making ready to get going sunday.

 

And then there was there evil look from wife when I popped a beer at 7 am lol