Home daily with more than a 10 hour break?

If I'm on the road 10 hours is plenty. I do local now. Lots more time at home, even with an hour commute.

 

Wrong. My dispatcher tried pulling this on me, a noobie OTR driver with less than 1 year experience, telling me I had to start moving every single day immediately when my 10 hour break ended.

I put my foot down. Some days I do get started after 10, but not everyday. My life is not 24/7 trucking. We are not slaves. Nobody from my company has bothered me about it since I put my foot down.

From what I understand after reading the LTL forum, many of the linehaul night time LTL drivers work 10-12 hour shifts. Leaving 12 - 14 hours off. But then you have a commute as well. However, they also get at least a 34 reset every weekend, or 48 hours off sometimes too.

OP read through the LTL sub forum I can't remember specifics off the top of my head but that's the gist of it, what I just wrote.

PS - not only do many of these night time linehaul drivers get 12-14 hours off each day plus 34-48 hours off in a row each week, but they're making more money than OTR solo company drivers working 7 days a week for 4-6 weeks at a time with no day off.

Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, but that's how I've come to understand it reading the LTL sub forum.

 

I was looking through Superior Carrier again and checking out some home daily jobs in their Carry Transit food tanker division for home daily. I wondered if anyone was familiar with Carry Transit's home daily workload and hours.

 

Most LTL barns have some shorter linehaul runs, like mine. 365 miles a night, I can do it under 8 hours easily. Home everyday, I am off duty for about 16 hours and get the weekend off. Gross 1200-1400 a week at my current pay scale, which I am at .63 and we top at .685 for scheduled runs I believe. The two hundred dollar range is depending on how many breaks and hooks I get.

 

I worked 9.5 hours last night with a 15 minute drive home....

 

One other possibility is hauling pneumatic tanker regionally.
You are on call 7 days a week. Depending on the job, may not be forced dispatch.
I've done both forced and non forced dispatch.

Forced was hauling flour or 'chalk'. Company had contracts with mills. Could have been a good job. Good company. But lower down was all goofed up. It was the people.

Now I'm extremely happy hauling cement powder. Non forced dispatch. Out overnight maybe one or two nights a week? Actually working for an O/O. There are three of us. There are about 40 trucks working this cement plant. Get empty. Call in and put back on lineup for next load. They consider where you're at, how much rest time you need, and all. They are considerate on calling you too soon. I get home almost every "night". I say that because we run all kinds of hours. It's up to us. But the quicker you get the load done. The quicker you can get another load to make more money. And you gotta follow HOS. Can be extremely busy driving. But always getting home almost daily. This does make a big difference.
I did work OTR. Loved it. Loved working recaps. I stayed out 3 months at a time without home time. Now I'm doing this. This is better.
I don't know about line haul, or P&D? Show up same time everyday. More like a regular job. I hated that showing up at the same time everyday. They'd have a fit if you're one second late. I'd rather have days off during the week than on weekends with everyone else.
What I'm doing now has no regular hours. It's all over the place. More like working OTR. But home instead of a truck stop.

EDIT: They will only call from 7am to 5pm. Don't have to worry about being called in the middle of the night. You have the freedom to take most loads when you want. For example. I got a call in after noon. Didn't go at 3pm. Waited till 3am to go. Just fine with them. But put it off means getting another load later. Also this particular customer I was told was a hassle. Have to take samples. Bring one sample with you. Wait for them to test the sample. Many drivers don't want to do this customer. The customer asked me if I'd be back. Told them I would be. No big deal to me. And the customer pays you wait time on the sample. They do that because they have had problems getting drivers to deliver. They have a constant need for two types of this cement powder. I got me one that will give me work when others will be sitting at home. This is a good place to go.

 

Who are you with, if you don't mind me asking? What a schedule, wow, that is awesome.

 

When I did local I drove so much I think I'd probably have put a 5th wheel trailer in the yard had I not had my Dad to care for.

Wasn't much different doing concrete or grocery distribution either.

Many, many times my 10 off consisted of several hours of commute, chores, etc.

 

I like recap hours.

I like drivers that hate recap hours.

More for me.

 

7.5 hours 15 minute drive home. Yard jockey