Home time

Now you know,never ecspect anything in this industry.The main 2 things in trucking is profit for companies and something is always changing.Could be the load appt,hometime as you already know.Something knew within the company ect.

 

this should not be a consistent ocurrence homegirl. Im out 3 weeks and home for 3 days like clockwork and NEVER have been late for hometime. In my year of trucking, ive learned one crucial thing. A driver manager can make or break you. A good DM is woth his weight in gold for a pro driver. Have your husband find who that is at his terminal, and find a way to get on their board. Miles and hometime should take care of themselvs after that.

 

Home time relies on too many factors to be certain, but you should be able to get it within a couple days of your request.

If I have something planned for a certain date, I will put my HT date as 2 days before.

This last one didn't work out, though.
The day before I was to get home I get a message that I have to be in Phoenix by the end of the week to trade my truck.
So while I did make it home, it was for only 1 day - after being out for 4 weeks.

I start heading out the next day on a load to Salt Lake, to get me something to Phoenix, and my truck breaks down. That took 4 days to fix.
I finally got to Phoenix and traded the truck, but am now stuck here trying to get back home for my real home time.
Now it is 6 weeks, because I don't consider a 1 day touch-and-go as actual home time.

On the plus side, the Walmart loads I am getting will pay the bills.
And the gal that plans the loads out of there is really trying to get me closer to home.


But, in the year-plus that I have been with Swift, my home requests have usually been within 2 days of my actual home time. Though, usually after - not before - which is why I try to plan a little ahead.

 

My man puts in for HT 2-3 weeks ahead of time but we try to schedual for him to be gone for 4 weeks. I live close to a terminal so one can hope and it has happened to get his 10 at home which means a shower, laundry, a real meal and a real bed not much time for anything more. He also tries hard to account for travel by asking for time ahead of when he wants to be home and sometimes a Holiday or Birthday gets celebrated on a day he is home, not when it should happen. Don't get me started on how long he can stay depending on keeping a truck he likes vs unloading everything and getting who knows what.
As for the Ladies Room, I like it but don't often post sometimes we have to be the change in the world and post the posts we want to read and participate in. That and you can probably PM some of the other Ladies you meet here for other forms of communication, when the Trucking life gets hard.

 

I put in for hometime early this month, it was the 8th or so and set hometime for the 21st. It's now the 25th and I'm sitting in the Lancaster terminal... Not too close to Phoenix.