Is it too much to expect your home time to be an actual day off?

Just knock it out and move on....

 

I got married a little late in life (56 when we got married, I’m 62 now), and I’ll admit that it took a while to learn how to share my life. I’ve found that the best way to carve out a little bit of “me time” is to hit the ground running on “we” stuff. There are always things that need doing, so I do them asap, and after completing a bunch of tasks it’s a whole lot easier to claim a little bit of reward time.

 

If I was gone for 4 weeks , I’d be home at least 7 days , maybe more .

every other job gets two days off for every 5 you work .
So does your dispatcher and broker and mechanic and every one else that works in the trucking industry. Except drivers.

 

Yeah, good luck with that. You could try saying no I want to screw off for a day or 2, see where that leads you.

 

Lol.

 

Looks like his hair is working hard as he is.

 

The list of demands is a smoke screen. It's about something else and you need to find out what it is and quickly. Good luck.

 

Then you should go get a ..( every other job ).. BTW .. I will beg to differ with you about every other job

 

Well, maybe not EVERY other job but the vast majority of employers do not expect you to work 70-75 hours a week, sleep in a truck and only get one day off for every 7 days you work.

Only trucking expects that and only from the drivers .
You think the dispatchers and brokers work 16 hours a day 7 days a week for a month and then only get 3 days off before their boss damages they go back out for another month of 16 hour days ???

F that.

One job I worked (not trucking ) we worked 10 8 hour days in a row and then got 5 days off .

Every other normal Job you work 40 hours , usually five 8 hour days followed by two days off

or some reasonable schedule like that.

In my current job (not trucking ) I have had to go to a job site in another state and work for 12 days in a row. But when I got back I got a week off with pay .