No company terminals = no hometime?

I have wanted to ask that question, too.

 

No, you will still get your home time at the Company's convenience. You will how ever, have to wait for them to do their maintenance on the trucks at their terminal.

 

Personally I will not work for a company with a yard more then an hour from home, makes things much simpler.

 

It makes sense, doesn't it? When I was narrowing my list of companies, I threw out any that did not have a terminal in Phoenix for this reason. It definitely makes sense that we're more likely to get home now and then, without being a pain in our FM/DM's arse, if the company has a terminal near our home. I also understand that some companies allow its drivers to bobtail home from the terminal (reasonable distance) and others do not.

These are a couple of the reasons that Roehl ended up at the top of my list.

 

not that I have extensive expertise ~ I can tell any and all that the absence of a terminal within 100 air miles of home and / or other factors that one would think would be related will not have as much of a determining influence on "home-time" as will other issues in the matter - I would first look at whether it is big enough to have dedicated dispatchers & exactly how far the nearest yard is from your home but for what it is worth

I am talking to FFE right now and for 21/3 I do not see much point in being concerned about home-time = it is a big issue for most but why get into trucking and go OTR when one can run regional or even bobtail local [ sometimes called straight truck ] <<== do that and you will be home often enough for most

(edit - just found on job board)

[some other poster on another board]

 

Not necessarily.Rohel is a med to large size carrier and probably have alot of customers in MI.So is what they may do is have you drop the trl at a cust and bobtail home or let you drop the trl at the nearest trk stop.

 

New drivers should be less concerned with hometime and more focused on learning and earning. If you haven't even started yet and youre already worried about getting home, chances are you won't make it past the first month. I spent 60 plus days without getting home when I first started. By the time I came back I'd forgotten what home even looked like.


Truthfully though my home was 400 miles from the closest company terminal so really I had no choice but to get used to not getting home...