I guess mailing you a Christmas card is out of the question, unless I catch you on a 34 hr break.
"Home Daily" means you will be doing night shifts correct
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by ThisisMeUsee, Dec 14, 2018.
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From what I've heard, if you even have many years of experience, but new to the company, you will always start night shift like 2000 to 0600, it's rare when newbies start mornings.
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I'm home daily with varied shift start times. That usually means I start anytime between 4am and 10am, all depends on what needs to be delivered and where.
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I have been running a home daily for a while. I actually miss being out. But this is easy. Show up at 5 am, fuel up and go get trailer, drive from Nashville to Lexington for a D&H, back to Nashville and off by 3. So 10 hours and done. Traffic? No problem. Delays? Who cares, I'm getting paid. But it is boring for me because I am single. No need to be home daily. It is nice to know what you will make every week.
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I'm kind of home daily, up at 3:30 load at 4, usually switch trailers around noon or do a 2 hour delivery. Home at 5:30 supper, shower, tuck the kids in and close my eyes. Unless weather or delivery takes to long or traffic messes things up. Did I mention I drive the only road over the mountain in BC that everyone else drives over the mountains too. Slept at home once this week, took a nap there too
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Ah home daily... from what I can recall, it involved driving 45 minutes to work, a non rolling 15 hour clock and 12 hours of drive time. Then 45 minutes back home and 8 hours off duty with no 30 minute breaks.
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I'm sorry guys.. y'all's local sucks.
I run a autopart relay. Start at 1500, pretrip and drive 312 miles, swap trailers with the driver waiting on me. Drive 312 miles back . Fuel and go home. Unless weather or traffic jams me up.. 11 hours total. Drive a hour home, sleep 8 hours and spend 2-3 hours with the family. Do it again. Mon afternoon to 0130 Saturday morning. Usually only work 9 days every 2 weeks cause autoparts. Avg 5700+ miles every 2 weeks.
Not raggin on anyone at all but not all local is horrible. It's so much better than rotting away being a recluse in a semi. I did that and hated every minute. I want a life and want my family to know me. Sure, I don't avg 80k a year but 65 is more than enough for my family.Nothereoften, Fuelinmyveins, Coover and 1 other person Thank this. -
I fail to see how fitting the family in to the daily routine is a bad thing.
Isn't that pretty much any person with a home job.
Having a local job ROCKS. It's the hours that suck. And the traffic depending on the job.
I liked hauling dirt. 630 to 430 and half saturdays sometimes. Never over 60 hours or 12 hours. One of the few jobs that had set hours. Nothing else mattered. You came to the office and left the office at the same time.Dark_Majesty_06 and Nothereoften Thank this.
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