How do they get you home for home time?

That can be a real problem. Your home time is probably not going to be very much right now. Not if you want to make any money at all.

I happen to have lived right near the "lanes" for companies that I drove OTR for, so it was not a problem. One outfit had a yard about twenty miles from my house, so I just parked my POV there.

The other one used to get me home, either under load on a "non rush" load, or between loads. Not having a secure place to leave you truck can be a problem though.

Once you get out on your own, you might be able to find a local company with a yard within reasonable distance of your house. Perhaps you could park there for your home time. It would be worth paying them a few bucks to "rent" a secure parking spot.

I sure would not be in a rush to go to Covenant. OTOH, if they will put you to work, it might be better than nothing. . .

Barely. . .

Good luck!

 

home time means back to your home terminal, not to your door step, though some companies do allow you to take the truck home.

transport america, a training company, has a terminal in atlanta, and it isn't very far to chatanooga if you had to drive the whole way. you wouldn't want to do it daily, but once every three weeks isn't that bad and if you live 75 miles away from the terminal they will allow you to take the truck home.

 

Own your own Truck and have your own authority. This way you can go home anytime you want.
If you are a company driver or leased to someone they own you.

 

If you go to work for Covenant. You most likely will never be allowed to take your truck home. Due to your location.

 

My Truck is my home and my home is my truck.....welcome to the wonderful world of trucking.....

 

^^^^ Thats not what trucking is unless you want it to be.

 

My company allows thier drivers to take thier trucks home, if they live 100 miles from a compan terminal. Trailers are either dropped at a customer, a authorized secured drop yard, then you bobtail.
Or if ou have the room, take the trailer home with you, staing connected all the time.

When i mean take the truck home, the truck is suppose to be be in eyesight of your house.
I'm on a fleet, where there are at least 8 drivers from the same company that live 50 miles of each other. When a driver coming home is under a load, he'll give that load to the outgoing driver(he'll delver it), outgoing, if he has an mty, gives that to the driver coming home. Then when that driver comes out of the house, and if there are no others coming home, will deadhead to his reload.
They created this fleet, in order to try to stop wasting $$, by having drivers drop at the nearest drop yard, 200 miles one way , bobtail home , then bobtail back to the drop yard grab a trailer for his next load.
So the driver is now getting paid to and from the house, and the company is saving money in fuel cost.

 

LOL.....I was just kidding....
For myself, I need to make a certain amount each week.
Sometimes I can do it in a "Two-legged" run and sometimes it takes three....
But then again....I'm not CO driver....

 

1. As a newbie, you will not be getting home a decent amount of time with any company.
2. Have you checked out www.justtruckingjobs.com they are one of the sponsors of this site.
3. When all else fails Google is your best friend. Try googling: truck driving jobs Georgia

Easy for you to say. Not everyone can afford to buy or lease a rig right out of truck driving school.