Just out of curiosity, if you were on the road for Christmas...

Man can't you deadhead somewhere? Seems like that is a dead area. Personally, I'd had left out of there on the 23rd and gone home and hit the restart button mid week.

 

And that is why I'm self employed.....I worked all holidays in my 1st career. Missed a lot of family time and moments. Now, I refuse to work holidays unless I chose to, which is very rare.

Most years I only work the 1st couple of weeks in December and then go home until the following year.

 

Every Holiday we are on the road, we get paid 2x's our hourly wage....plus, regular mileage pay, and stop pay.

I don't have to be in a truck stop, or under repairs for that.

My Holiday pay came out to 34.40/hr for 8 hrs.

####, sorry man, if that happened to you.

But, it's the nature of the business.

 

No holidays on the road here. Been there, done that!

Used to work 180 days a year..... None of them were holidays. I feel like I gave enough when I made myself available on the weekends.

 

buy your own truck, get yourself home, buy your own christmas dinner, quit relying on a company to do it for you. yes i know thats what these "companies" do, they have to "sell" you a "job", i guess it makes them feel needed when really theyre not needed at all, well except for people who cant pay their bills and cant run their own life.

 

Here at K&B every driver received $250 Christmas bonus.

 

Doesn't matter if it was $1000. If you wanted to be home and didn't make it, you can't buy the missed moments.

 

So....other "truckers" say.