I can never go home

Who are you driving for?

 

No this isn't acceptable, time for you to put your foot down

 

If I'm 100 miles from my house and wanted to go home.

I just drove home.

I suggest you pull the same maneuver.

 

Start putting in your home time requests and hold the company to it.

If they cannot or will not honor that, go somewhere else. There are companies out there that you can get miles and be home regularly.

 

Some dispatchers just like to see how far they can push.
Pick a date a week away, tell them you have to be home then for x many days. Remind them constantly, then when the time comes, just go. They'll know what you're doing. You don't have to get mad, or argue. 24-48hours before you go, if you're offered a load that you know won't work out, tell them they'll need to set up a switch.
I ran team once, we had to do this only once. We reminded dispatch for two weeks of an important family event. We got to within two hundred miles on the final day, they gave us another dispatch that went two days out of the way. We calmly said, no, you've known about this for two weeks, we'll be back in four days, and bob tailed home.
We called in on day five and everything was fine. Never had a problem getting home after that.

 

Do not fell bad. I have been out 11 months wife told me I need to get home asap baby is due next week!

 

I'd say it's time to move on. Maybe look into regional work. You could try scouting the area around where you live and see what companies are pulling loads out of this area. If you can find one that has a major customer nearby the chances you will get by the house improve. I run NE regional so getting home isn't an issue anyways but our main shipper is in the town I live in. I usually make it home every other night or at least long enough for an 8 hour SB. It's also helpful because this shipper tends to take FOREVER to load our trailers and it's much less agrivating to call them from my couch rather than sitting in front of a trailer staring at that blinking red light.

Good luck driver. If you can find the right fit for you, the job really can be quite enjoyable.