Home time

Wow. Id hate to say it, but there is no crying in trucking... period.
If your a company driver, then you have to chase freight that gets you home. If your husband wants to be home all the time or on a set schedule, then look into a regional run or dedicated fleet, other than that.. lease a truck, and pay for the fuel to drive home and get there on time, right.

Don't want/mean to come off rude, but if you think trucking is a 9-5 get weekends off, uhh no, which I know yer well aware, so im sorry to say yer gonna have to get used to him missing a lot of family events. Being out 4 weeks is nothing, that's when I start to gain momentum. Im on my 14th week out and just now getting my 2nd wind.
Best thing I can say is have your husbands learn freight routes, what areas have the freight that can get ya home. For example, don't accept a load that gets ya to a place where loads going out take you the opposite way. Mac 9 and say NO, reason, hometime, simple.
Call his dm 4 or 5 days prior to ht and have them stack loads that get him home or the last load that can be tcalled etc..
yea as a company driver ht is pretty much a 34, if you want to keep the same truck. Again, husbands need to learn tricks to get 3-4 days off and still keep his truck. I used to get 3-4 days off in my company truck and keep it and my terminal is phx..

tricks.. gotta learn um !

 

I took six days off, parked the truck at the terminal... Nothing was said about turning it in.

 

Hey, Zuki, can you please elaborate... even start a new thread on this subject... I've noticed that some people consistently log more miles every week too. I have a feeling it has to do with this... if you have the time it would be appreciated... by the way... are you training -- I should be ready to go in Aug -- (almost paid my cc off, and saving $$) it's been hell to wait... but... THANKS!

 

How proactive have YOU been on getting home? I take it upon mysef to make sure that everybody involved does not forget or otherwise overlook my hometime request. My last trip out as a company driver I made up my mind that after a certain date not to accept any load that didn't take me towards home. Got home on time!

 

They don't give me loads going away from home when I'm ready to go home, instead, they just don't give me loads. I've been in Texas for a week, just got a load going 100 miles north of my hometime location. I'm wondering what theyre gunna have me do when I get there... Make me sit for a few days to get that last 100 miles?

 

I was sitting in Kansas 3 days before I was due to be home. Got a load going to SoCal so BEFORE I accepted it I asked if they would let me t-call it in Phoenix. I also offered to t-call it in Albuquerque or Denver since Phoenix was out of the way, suprised me when they approved the t-call to Phoenix.