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Cattleman84 · May 7, 2020

Lennythedriver said: ↑

I’ve learned there’s two types of trucking companies that run their business model two different ways in general. There’s a company that will run your ### off for five days straight getting between 500 and 600 miles per day and then they’ll incorporate a couple days off of Hometime with a reset. Then there’s the trucking company that likes you to sit at their disposal so they can cherry pick loades and distribute them to you and want you to stay out for like 4 to 12 weeks at a time usually getting somewhere between 1800- 3000 miles a week if you’re lucky and they do that by robbing your days off. If you look at both business models over a year period of time you realize the driver in the first model will spend about 115 days plus his week vacation at home. The second driver, will be lucky if he spends 35 days out of the whole year at home. And get this, here’s the final kicker, the guy who drives for the company with the first business model? He still ends up Making more. Most truck drivers don’t take the time to figure that out but when they do it’s a real eye-opener. You can quickly see that your company is just using their drivers as there #####
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Yep... I work for a company where we run hard for 5 to 8 days, then reset at home. If I'm out on the road I want to be moving, nit waiting for dispatch to get back to me.

sirhwy · May 8, 2020

Lennythedriver said: ↑

I’ve learned there’s two types of trucking companies that run their business model two different ways in general. There’s a company that will run your ### off for five days straight getting between 500 and 600 miles per day and then they’ll incorporate a couple days off of Hometime with a reset. Then there’s the trucking company that likes you to sit at their disposal so they can cherry pick loades and distribute them to you and want you to stay out for like 4 to 12 weeks at a time usually getting somewhere between 1800- 3000 miles a week if you’re lucky and they do that by robbing your days off. If you look at both business models over a year period of time you realize the driver in the first model will spend about 115 days plus his week vacation at home. The second driver, will be lucky if he spends 35 days out of the whole year at home. And get this, here’s the final kicker, the guy who drives for the company with the first business model? He still ends up Making more. Most truck drivers don’t take the time to figure that out but when they do it’s a real eye-opener. You can quickly see that your company is just using their drivers as there #####
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That’s pretty much the size of it. I learned years ago, I really didn’t make any more being out for weeks at a time. There are plenty of companies that will treat you right, but you have to find them, and treat THEM right. It’s a two way street.

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