How late for home time are you?

Ask for home-time in a way that gives the company an adequate heads-up that you want / need some......maybe 2 weeks ahead of the time you actually want to take off..... Give them an adequate time period to answer your request ( 48 hours) , then if they seem to drag their feet get more aggressive...not ugly , but just let them know you need some time with your family...if they don't want to work with you , then start looking for another opportunity. You don't have to be anyone's slave , just try to be diplomatic at 1st , if that doesn't work then make different plans.

 

Well, number one, it depends on who you work for. You live in Oregon. Is the company a NW company? If not, then they will have all kinds of excuses for getting you home late.

 

Like Tony said start requesting hometime a couple weeks before then when it draws near like a week remind your dispatcher every day and then a couple days before hometime and you don't have a load towards where you live ask dispatch if hes going to get you home.Sometimes you have to put your foot down.There is no reason why they get you home late month after month.They ecspect you to be ontime with loads well they can also be ontime with getting you home.

 

No excuse for not getting home on time EVERY time......no matter the company. Drivers shouldn't put up with this.

I remember back in the day I drove for Cannon Express out of Arkansas. My first trip out I told them when I needed to be home(it was an 18 day heads up) He replied to me "we will see what we can do".....

I told them that wasn't going to work, and My next load was to Arkansas to turn the truck in!!!!!

I seen the writing on the wall, we should never have to put up with that.!!!

 

Don't work for southern companies. Especially living in the NW. I will never work for a company based in the south ever again. You can do much better than those people down there.

 

As I think I understand it, 3 weeks out is widely accepted as traditionally the OTR minimum (and the driver has "earned" 3 days off).

The first thing I think you have to accept running for a southern company is getting home within 7 days of your desired date is "within reasonable expectations".

Get your first year under your belt and there should be ample positions available to you running the 11 western states.

DON'T QUIT THIS GIG UNTIL YOU HAVE A SOLID OFFER OF ANOTHER. Not a "guarantee", those are rare if not ~nonexistent, a solid offer.

 

Leavitt's Freight Service in Springfield, OR hires new CDL grads, so they would probably hire you. Don't be concerned about staying where you are if another company agrees to hire you. Set an orientation date and move on.

 

For once I'll agree with Chinatown, lol. Get out of that company.