Picking your last load to drop before days off

Most companies don't want you home over five days. Too many quit and abandon trucks and it makes them nervous. Plus they want that truck rolling.

You work long haul you'll have certain travel lanes. If your relatives and friends are in them lanes, getting time off with them is no problem. Look on a companies website and many have a hiring map. That map will give you an idea of lanes traveled.

Do your homework here on training companies. Recruiters and ads lie just to get you in the door. Don't rely on them.

 

HAHA, that's hilarious...."Make a Baby". Very true though. I've found, if you do your job well, you make your fleet manager look good. I don't care how jaded or miserable you are as a fleet manager, if your driver makes you look good.....occasionally you scratch his/her back a little bit. That being said, do your job and maintain a good working relationship with your fleet manager, and when you want to visit a place that isn't considered your home.....he'll try to make it happen. But, if your just lazy and don't wanna work. Getting home is gonna be harder than performing a root canal with no instruction book.

 

I drive for Swift and I take hometime wherever I want it up to 3-4 days at a time. I send in a macro with my driver number, zip code where I want to go and the date I want to be there. My home is my truck and I have a mailing address in San Antonio at my friend's house. My terminal is Laredo so it's easy to get through there when I need to pick up my mail. I haven't taken hometime in awhile because I have a good working relationship with the planners in various areas. I offer to run off a few undesirable loads if they can get me where I want to be for my 34; they like that. I'm doing a 34 reset at The Wild Wild West in Las Vegas today, the next one will be in TX at family's house in Dallas, my galpal's house in San Antonio or Laredo. The one after that will be fly fishing in Ellensburg, WA

CRST is all team, Central Refrigerated is not. Look at some other mega carriers that have schools as well. Running reefer is always going to grocery DCs and nothing sucks worse than sitting for hours while a dc unloads one pallet, sorts it and checks expiration dates, unloads another pallet, repeat.

Frank