My first solo trip started on 2/20, so I've got about 2 more weeks on my first 90 days. I just thought I'd recount some of my experience thus far.
In the 71 days from 2/20 to 5/1, I drove 20,858 actual miles. I don't know what my paid miles were right now, but I'm going to assume 10% less, so a bit over 18,000. There were 12 days I drove 0 miles, and one where I logged 6. Some of these days were home time, some were breakdown, some were sitting waiting for a load. If I keep the same pattern, I'm on track to make just a hair over $33k this year.
I've taken home time twice. Both times I was not home when promised. The first time, when my date was approaching and I was near my home in Denver, they just routed me right through and sent me out for another week. This past week I was in town on Tuesday with a load that dropped on Wed. I was told that as soon as it was delivered, I could take my home time a bit early (scheduled for Friday). On Wednesday afternoon I was saddled with another load to Salt Lake, and had already burned a chunk of my hours for the day, so the round trip to SLC and back meant that I wasn't home until mid afternoon on Friday.
In most regards, I have thus far considered this a decent company to work for, but if I can't get the miles here, and they can't get me home when they're supposed to, I may need to start considering what my other options are.
Nearing the end of my first 90 days
Discussion in 'May Trucking' started by Reroll, May 4, 2013.
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