Start at McElroy on Monday!

They pay loaded & empty. Moved to elogs over the past year.

 

Reset will almost always fall on the weekends b/c the company owner prefers his trucks not run on Saturdays. He's a Seventh Day Adventist, so Saturday is his church day. Typically pick up a load on your way home for the weekend on Friday, then leave Sunday afternoon/evening for a Monday morning delivery.

 

I'm not sure exactly to what your instructor is referring. I know you can work (that's on duty not driving & on duty driving combined) for 70 hours in an eight period. As for time between restarts, a driver is not eligible for a restart until 160 hours (seven days) from the start of your last restart. For example, I'm on a restart right now. It started at 16:09 today. I won't be eligible for another restart until 16:09 next Friday. I do not have to take one then, as long as I have hours left on my 70 hours. I just can't take another restart before that time. At least that's the way I understand it. I'm not following/understanding what your instructor is saying at all. Not saying he's necessarily wrong. I just don't get what he's saying.

 

Well, the way it worked when I finished training at MTL, on Thursday of the final week of training they send you out that afternoon to go to wherever you'll pick up your first load. Picked it up on Friday & headed home. Keep in mind, this was last March before the new rules kicked in & you could pretty much take a 34 whenever. What I suspect happens is that after picking up that load Friday, ya go home of the weekend, & through the next week, if necessary they work you off a recap to get you to the next Friday when you go home. At that point you're more than eligible for a recap. By the next Friday, you're eligible for another, & so on.
Keep in mind, that's one way they could make it work. May not necessarily be the way they are doing it. I still talk to my driver trainer there all the time since we've become good friends. He's still getting home every Friday. Best bet may be to speak to someone there now.