How many take off for Christmas

Thats Definitely doable a 200 mile run,Hate for the inlaws to be at the house,Rummaging thru the fridge,sitting in your Lazyboy,Running up your Lightbill,Drinking up all your ICECOLD BEER,While your stuck at a shipper because the forklift operator is getting paid Over time sitting on his sweet u kno what,taking his Sweet Lazy time to unload you,O wait im sorry thats just my HOUSE ,,,LMAO

 

I'm headed home right now. Deliver in the am.. 30 mins from home. Shutting down till mid Jan. Maybe longer if the weather up north acts up.

Truck is paid for. I have money in the bank. A little vacation will do me good.

Hurst:smt111

 

I'd rather be running on Christmas this year than be home for it, but my sister and brother-in-law kept crying that I'm not home enough. So by default I am going home the morning of and leaving that afternoon... everybody wins

Though finding a load to load on Wednesday or Thursday is looking to be impossible. They all want to load Friday!

 

normally do flat bed. but this time of yr I do local runs out and back. home everyday and off for holidays. no since running a load out 2 or 3 states away and not find nothing coming back towards house.

 

Gonna take off from Wed to Sat. Prolly run a short round first of the week following the off Wed to Sat. Always home for Christmas, usually take off for the last 2 weeks of the year, but trying something a lil different this year.

 

I am home from Friday 19 . I begin to drive .day 5 next month,I like the christmas Holidays and money is not everything,my Truck is Paid off.Happy christmas and a Good New Year for all Members from this Forum

 

I usually shut down in mid December and go back out in early January. One of the many benefits of owning my own.

 

yep! I'll be home for the holidays, not a OO any more, but when I was, had brokers call me, trying to get me to take a load, sorry, not desperate for money, so! I'll spend my time with the family

 

WOW! I called a guy a idiot not long ago and mods deleted it for insults, you get called a twat, and it stays, go figure?

 

Exactly right. Really no such thing as gouging. When a hurricane wipes out the gulf coast and gas or diesel shoot to $5 a gallon or more everyone complains it's gouging. The truth is there's fuel available for $5 a gallon if anyone really needs it. With refineries busted if it was still $2.50 a gallon it'd be gone and no more fuel to be had. Same thing with freight. A broker complaining that they can't find trucks at $3.50-$4 a mile is at too low of a price point to motivate any of the trucks. If they raised that rate to $5, $6 or whatever per mile those trucks might appear or maybe it takes more.