Too many 34 hour resets, not enough driving. I am on...

Actually, my dd15 out pulled my friends maxforce across 80 in Nevada we both picked up dog food at the same place and delivered to the same place, same weights. Just have to know when to downshift. But I think a cummins will eat it up going up hills.

 

I have a dd 15. it might have a little horsepower but it sure does not have any torque.


Mikeeee

 

So you sit for 34hrs and do not get paid? Hmm I think OTR may be out of the question for me.
Oilfield truckers only need 24hrs for reset so it's easy to go over 70 hrs in a 7-8 day period. You basically work oh say 5/14hr days, take the 6th off and work 14hrs on the 7th day equaling 84hrs in 7days. 84hrs = $1961.00 Gross
From what I have seen a truckstop would not be a place to spend 34hrs? What am I missing here?

Thanks

 

The drama is building. What are you going to do?

 

What about detention pay? Or is strictly a scheduling thing where you arrive early? I also like playing dumb. When they ask what my appt time is, I tell them in an hour, whew, barely made it. Sometimes it works. lol

Ive done a few resets, but usually cause I want to do one, sometimes I dont feel like moving. Last reset was at Christmas in New Orleans, it was nice there, so I did a restart, went to a cajun resturant, etc,,,

 

I've had it happen before running team. If it doesn't happen often you just have to chalk it up to a bad week. I only had it happen once and we got four resets in a week. For us it was purely a no team freight thing and we were just 1-2 days early every load that week running solo crap. We weren't sitting a full 34 ever since it only takes the truck sitting 24 hours to get a reset if someone drove 10 getting to the stop. It sucked but it was really the only bad week I ever had as a team.

Your best bet is to contact the receiver yourself and see if they will take it early. At my company at least, dispatch will always say they won't but when I called myself many times they would. Or like Cudacious said, "I just barely made it," and hope it works. Sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't. The worst they can do is turn you away.

 

so what do YOU do while codriver is home?