Home time

My company is good at getting you home when you want to be. For instance, I had a home date in for last Friday, was leaving to go to the mountains with my wife. Thursday AM I delivered in New Albany, OH, and they deadheaded me to the house. Once last year I put in a home date for my nephew's birthday party, took a load to Calgary, AB and either I forgot to tell my dispatcher to take the home date off, or I told him and he forgot, and I ended up deadheading home from Calgary.

 

Only need to go home long enough to sign divorce papers anyway right.

 

I agree with this for sure. If i lived near i65 when I worked for roehl I could have been home every week for at least a day. Then when I worked for Lonestar i could have been home every two weeks if I lived in Texas haha.

With Lonestar and living in Florida, I usually would have to deadhead 400-600 miles to get home. My longest deadhead was 650 miles with Roehl.

 

You have to take your payrate into account also when deciding on hometime. Less cents per mile you make the longer you need to stay out to pay the bills, plus have a little left over to buy stuff for yourself and other things to make life on the road more bearable.

 

Now that's funny

 

The company I work for ussally ask me what my plans are. But the last trip out I was out for five weeks then took three days off but this trip I was out 10 days running real hard. Heading home for a reset the. Back out. I hear horror stories about companies but I think I scored with mine. Good luck

 

B.S...(Bullsticks)

 

When I was a new rookie working for Covenant transport getting hometime was a nightmare..

 

Otr doesn't necessarily mean you have to be out months at a time. My last company I was out 3 weeks home 4 days. That was plenty for me.

I will say some guys come out and stay out a week then go home a week and expect to make big money.


At my current job I'm local, home every night but I work 6/2 shift. I could work 5/2 but I'd make a lot less money