Reaching burnout/boredom with dry van -- what next?

They aren't looking for a team, they were looking for a solo female driver, with as many years experience as they could find, clean criminal background, perfect driving record: no tickets, no accidents EVER, perfect CSA scores, etc. ALSO they want someone with a great attitude, works well within a bunch of other trucking professionals (pilot car operators, customers, etc) has a polished professional appearance.

Like LexusLane said, you're searching for a needle in a haystack. What they got was someone with those credentials and someone college educated and a successful businessperson who owns a bug sleeper truck and no ties with anyone (no husband, kids) ----that probably removed the other 7 percent or more quoted earlier and now you're down to who knows??? 20 to 50 women in the US who fit that criteria who weren't already committed to an operation. Who knows?

 

I would be burnt too with only 4 days home a month. That's for the birds. I get a little burnt out with the local northeast rat race everyday. Change it up a bit. Switch from music to podcasts or audiobooks or vice versa. Something to take your mind off the boredom.

If you're interested in flats go make the jump, you'll regret it if you don't give it a shot

 

The perfect split in my opinion is running something like 270 days OTR, averaging right around 500 miles per day. That’ll bring you in somewhere around 135,000 miles for the year. And then 90 days off at home. That breaks down to something like a 10/3 schedule with one out of every four times taking a fourth day off. That’s a schedule that Will keep you sane for a longer ratio of time. Now your dispatch or driver manager might try to fight it a bit but just point out, “if you guys keep me moving and do your job, it’ll come out to 135,000 miles annually and that is more than a full-time driver.”. You see the driver gets cut down and blamed for literally everything in this industry when in reality it’s dispatching. If dispatching dispatching you properly you’ll get plenty of miles and plenty of home time.

 

And knowing where every single pot hole is and all the bears hiding spots Lol. Sometimes that 180 miles home feels like it takes forever other times it flys by

 

if you like weird delivery locations , and dont wanna get bored. go run a flatbed.. you will deliver to places that dont even exist yet and have to find them without an address an poor directions. lots of fun they say !

 

The issue with hauling the windmills is that when you’re delivering , if it rains , you’re stuck for days , maybe weeks , because they can’t unload your blade in the mud or if the wind is blowing etc .

you’re sitting for days in nowhere Nebraska not getting paid a dime , you don’t get paid until it’s off your truck .

sometimes you can unhook and they can pull your tractor out to the road with a bulldozer , so you can go stay for three weeks in a fleabag roach motel while not getting paid or just getting a small detention fee .

if you’re talking to the the folks about hauling blades , be sure to ask about the detention pay , and under what circumstances you get it .

 

I’ve talked with a couple guys that hauled blades. You get on those jobs you stay on them until it’s over, and that can mean months out at a time. No thanks!

 

I get burnt out after one day running 600 miles lol