You have to plan your home time, just as much as the planners have to. If you want to get home at a certain date you need to start refusing loads at a point in time that would allow you to get there on time - or at least close. I was in eastern NJ 2 days ago and was sent a pplan heading me to Laredo, TX - when I have a home time request in to be in Denver on Friday. I turned it down with the reason, "home time request for Denver, CO. The next morning I had a load to MO. It delivers Thursday morning, and is getting me closer to Denver. Then I was stacked with two pplans. The first was to OK and the second was to UT. I took the first one because it got me a bit closer by Friday, but turned down the second because it didn't include a t-call in Denver. I'm still waiting to see what they do with that last one. The load has enough time on it to t-call it in Denver, but I won't accept it without a preplanned t-call. I've been through that before, and got hosed when it came time to get the t-call. Bottom line is that you have to plan YOURSELF for home times, and say no to everything else. And the reason of 'home time request' is one of a very few that they let use to refuse a load.
May I ask a stupid question here. How many post and topics here have had the same questions asked. Just curious
I was thinking along the same lines. Trucking requires self reliance and the initiative to take care of oneself. In my never humble opinion, the op displayed nothing but laziness and a complete lack of anything even slightly resembling initiative.
Oh, PLEASE! It is sometimes more effective to just as a question up front for fresh responses, instead of searching for old threads on the subject. I, for one, had no problem with it.
Yeah, it gets repetitive sometimes, but it's also funny to hear some of the responses of the haters. Sometimes there's a new "gem" in there.
Don't go with swift try some other company's first I'm going with total transportation and they are working on getting new trucks in where companies like swift will start you off with an older lemon of a truck and 2 years later give you a "new" truvk
That's funny ... docked next to Total driver yesterday and he was talking me up about wanting to come to Swift.
