Is 2-3 days off for every 3-4 weeks out the standard for OTR Megas?

Most companies I’ve seen
Home 8 am Sunday
Back out 6pm Monday
That’s two days off
You were home Sunday and Monday

 

Sunstate Carriers

• Top drivers earn up to $1900 per week
• Raise Every 6 Months with No Cap - The Sky is the Limit on What You Can Make Per Mile!
• Drivers achieving 10k miles monthly have unlimited home time
• ALL LOADS RETURN DIRECTLY TO FLORIDA!!
  
• 100% no-touch freight!
• NO NEW YORK CITY!
  
• All trucks equipped with not only APU's, but power inverters, refrigerators, double bunks

Great home time:

• Direct loads from Florida and back every 4 to 5 days
• You decide how often you need or want to be home, as long as you are running enough miles
• Paid Holidays:
  • Christmas
  • New Year's Day
  • Memorial Day
  • 4th of July
  • Labor Day
  • Thanksgiving Day
  
  
• Dedicated accounts:
  • Coca Cola
  • Florida Natural
  • Pepsi
  • Tropicana

 

Roehl offered a variety of flex schedules. For starter companies, KLLM & FFE are 2 per 7. KLLM caps at 14 days accrued and 7 is max for keeping same trk. idk if FFE caps or has a max with same trk. DHT is 1.5 per 7, I don’t believe they cap or have a limit on keeping same trk.

This for otr. Regional and dedicated may vary.

 

FirstFleet's Tampa/Plant City local operation delivers essential paper products within a 250 miles radius.
Home daily with occasional layover.
LESS THAN 1 YEAR EXPERIENCE? You may qualify for our PAID MENTOR PROGRAM.

• 5 Days on / 2 Days off (Saturdays as needed.

PAY

• Deliveries within 250 miles radius of Tampa with few to AL, GA and Carolinas
• Scheduled Increases
• Quarterly Safety & Fuel Bonus program
• 

 

Where is your location?
How much experience do you have?
Do you have endorsements?

 

You OTR guys better be making some darn good money. God bless y’all.

 

Luckily OTR pay has been going up but yeah, it's definitely still underpaid. Another sector that I noticed can be very underpaid is also Tanker work (for fuel hauling jobs, so not food grade or anything like that but fuel tankers), at least in some parts of the country. I've seen ads for around 60k-70k per year. 70k per year better be for 40 hours per week at about $33 per hour if you're hauling around what is essentially a big ticking time bomb. 60k per year is way too low even for a 40 hour work week.

There was a post on another forum about a driver who worked 4 days a week and was getting paid $33 per hour, OT after 40. She said she worked about 48 hours per week and was grossing about 90k per year. That seems fair to me. Very good work life balance and getting paid good money to do it for al the risks that it entails.

Back to OTR work and OTR pay, the way to make that work in my opinion is to not have rent/mortgage and all the costs associated with that so you can just save a lot of money that way.

 

I've always considered OTR good money. True enough, you won't get rich, but it's good enough to make a living. It's good money considering the job functions. The only hard thing about it to me is the psychological side of it, and if you're mentally tough then it becomes nothing.