Just got back from the road with prime

Hubby started orientation 7/7. His trainer has been a major issue, but he won't say anything because he's afraid of getting someone worse (and after seeing some stories here, I can see his point!). During training, he was out for about 6 weeks before coming home mid August for 4-5 days, and he'll be out til mid October. My guesstimate is that you'll be out for 5-8 weeks, not 4-6. Just don't let the family make any plans that can't be changed for your hometime.....they may be very disappointed becuase there are no guarantees about when you'll be there... He's looking forward to getting into his "own" truck (he'll be company). Then he can watch his hours properly because the trainer keeps running him out of hours.

 

I run my trainee out of hours.. I'm either out myself or not far behind.
. Its called making money.

We had a 6500 mile week before tlaking hometime this past weekend. He's only got less than 2 weeks till he hits 60k. He says he wants to stay an extra 2 or 3 weeks just to get him a little closer to that first solo raise at 80k.

 

Look at burning hours quick like this. Say you start at midnight Monday morning, with a fresh 70, you can run conservatively, and run the 70 over the 8 days evenly, or you can run balls to the wall leaving at midnight and running the 11, then taking a 10 and doing it again and have it look something like this. (and I know I'm leaving out fuel and PTI's from this, but you should still get the idea)

Monday leave at 0000 and run till 1100, take a 10 hour break, leave at 2100 and run to 2400. 14 hours of the 70 used leaving 56.

Tuesday stop at 0800 when your 11 is up, take a 10 and leave at 1800 and run till 2400, again using 14 hours leaving 42 on your 70.

Wednesday stop at 0400, take a 10 and leave at 1400 run till 2400. Again, you've used 14 hours of your 70 leaving 28.

Thursday, stop at 0100, and start again at 1100, and drive till 2200. Today you've used 12 hours, and have 16 left on your 70.

Friday, leave at 0800, drive till 1900 and take your break. 11 hours used, leaving 5 on your 70.

Saturday, 0500 leave and finish your 70 at 1000, and start a 34 hour restart.

Sunday, 34 hour restart is over at 2000, take off and drive till 2400. You've used up 4 hours of your new 70, leaving you with 66.

Monday, drive till 0700, break till 1700 then drive till 2400, 14 hours of clock time used leaving 52 on your 70.

So in the 8 days above where you ran as hard as you could, you were able to run 88 hours instead of 70, and had a 34 hour break in the middle. Also, at the end of the 8 days, you have 52 hours available to drive instead of working off of whatever hours you are getting back each day.

 

Depends on the trainer. U2 and Sazook are slave drivers... I've seen the whips!

 

But I refuse to show you my whip marks!

 

6500 a week is pretty good. The most my husband has run is 5000 in a week. The hubby is usually out of hours and the trainer is no where close. He (hubby) is just trying to make the best of the situation and looking forward to solo. The stopping at truck stops for lot lizards and just wasting time is getting old he says...

 

My other half came home ONCE during his instruction and training phases. And that was our decision for him to do so. Spending less time at home during instruction and training speeds up the process.

 

OK, so if the week is going like this....
M - Trainee runs 8pm to 6am, stop for 6 hrs, trainer runs 10am to 6pm, stop for 4 hours
T - trainee 10pm to 8am stop 2 hours trainer 10am to 4pm stop 3 hours
W - trainee 6pm to 3am stop 3 hrs trainer 7am to 5pm stop 8hrs (to "get some")
TH trainee 1am-11am stop 1 hr trainer 12pm to 9pm stop 1hr
Fr trainee 10pm to 6am stop 1 hr trainer 7am to 5pm stop 3 hrs
Sa trainee 8pm to 6am stop 1 hr trainer 7am to 5pm stop 6 hrs

This is how it should be? If so, I'm amazed that EVERYONE doesn't want to train...Just sayin......I don't know....maybe it's cause we're new to the game and don't understand how it should work...but it doesn't seem right.

 

On some trucks it is... others are different.

My truck doesn't include the "trainee" part. I like my privacy. I don't like trusting my life to someone I barely know.

 

That's so true...I was just trying to point out that one should not count on being home in 4-5 weeks.....Sometimes, it just doesn't happen like you plan.. We are just looking forward to training being done... After that, any issues that come up are our own fault, so to speak (we don't blame dispatchers - I was one for awhile!)