Vacation Policies

You'll want to find a company that emphasizes family time. There are many out there, but it isn't the mega companies like swift, Schneider, knight, transam, or c15 england. You'll have to do extensive home work to find them.

 

if you give advance notice of time needed, and stay on top of that, it can be done. but frankly, you might not be able to attend every single family event. do you wanna work or stay home?

trucking always has been a job of "some" inconveniences. you may be thousands of miles away when it is near time to get home for a special event. there WILL BE a time, that you simply cannot make it.

what you took for granted as an ordinary worker, many of us wish we had out here hitting the bricks.

good luck, it can be done, but do not really expect Moses to part the sea for you 100% of the time.

 

from my personal experience, i have had companies give me 1 week after 6 months. i have had companies give me 1 week after one year.

pay can vary. one place paid me a percentage of my weekly gross.

one place paid me a 40 hour work week, at the going rate, and i was long haul or line haul those years. so i did not get hourly pay, but either trip pay or mileage pay

limits (or end of) vacations can vary.

one place after x number of years, i could have had 7 weeks.

other places cap it at 2 weeks.

you can take (say) a couple of days off, sometimes that's on you (no pay)

some places you accrue time off (with pay)

too many variables to really say for sure what you could get.

 

Sure...without pay.

Once upon a time, I too was a company driver. I only had one company that didn't live up to their end of the bargain. When I run, I run like there's no tomorrow. But when I need off, I need off. Do good work for an employer. Add value to your name. If he doesn't appreciate it, you can find another job faster than you can clean out a daycab.

 

I get two weeks after the first year. Paid hourly for 48hrs/week. 2 personal days, and 10 paid holidays. They also seem to be very good about getting you home when you need to be.

 

i would search for companies that hire casual drivers where you may have to turn in the truck but can come back after your time off. the few that ive heard that do this are knight, maverick, mast truckng and rhoel but i havnt verified any of it, just what ive come across. try an find those companies that hire drivers that work so many months and then go live in thailand or somehwere for a time. alot of stuff in here just have to put right words in search.

 

if its freedom your looking for its getting less and less in this industry, if you manage your money well and dont live paychk to paychk then its possible to have the upper hand and find what your looking for, you just have to find a company that needs you more than you need them, which is really all of them,they have just convinced everyone that we need them more lol