What is Variant?

How do you do 2.5 trips and get home every weekend wouldn’t every other week have you out?

 

Was wondering that myself

 

Week #1
Leave home loaded monday morning deliver monday morning, drive north 340 miles take a 20hr break (that's 1/2 trip) Tuesday evening drive 20miles to drop/hook, drive south 360miles, take a 3hr nap then drive 30miles to delever Wednesday morning. drive 8 miles north and take a 11hr break Wednesday night drive north 340 miles and take a 11hr break. Thursday evening do it again.. deliver Friday morning then go home... home from Friday noon till Sunday evening...
Week #2
Leave home Sunday evening and go north 400ish miles (going home adds 60ish miles)take 12hr break. Do my drop/hook monday evening. Deliver Tuesday morning. Break, drive 340miles, break. Drop/hook Wednesday evening deliver Thursday morning. Break, drive, break, drop/hook Friday night and go home.... home Saturday by 0800 Leave Monday morning.
Week #1, Week #2.... total 5 trips = 2.5 per week and I'm home every weekend. Friday and Saturday night or Saturday and Sunday night...

 

This run you’re talking about is

i think I understand but it’s different from what you said in your earlier post.you don’t work 5 days a week You run a 3,2You run 2 tripson week 1 which you work 5 days leave Monday home Friday for almost 1500 miles for that week.On week 2 your running a 3 trips leaving Sunday and back Saturday which is 6 day week for 2244 miles.To me your spending a lot of time out for basically miles a local driver is doing and going home every day

 

It's not about miles it's about pay....!!

 

I understand that but I don’t believe for a second that us express is paying a rate so high that after fuel,truck payment and all other expenses you’re clearing $2:15 a mile after all expenses That’s clearing $4824.00 on 2244 miles.you didn’t tell the truth about only working 5 days a week I don’t believe for a minute you’re telling the truth about the money you’re making either.

 

Heaven forbid. A truck driver tell a bs story. Say it isn’t so!

 

He’s with Landstar.

 

Well his post here on Saturday 12:42 says my truck has usx on the side I don’t know how that means landstar I took it as us exspress .Either way the post doesn’t make since he claims there more important things then killing your self he’s home every weekend. I don’t see his point he spending all week away from home for 1500 miles and taking 20 hours at one time off away from home. I don’t know why he thinks this is a better run then what someone at variant was trying to sell him it sounds like a really crap run he has to spend all week out just for 1500 miles.

 

maybe you should ask... at the time variant started i was with usx pulling auto parts from chicago hights to Louisville and back...

the 20 hr is once every other week...

why should I bust my ### for $2,100 (.60cpm × 3,500 miles at variant)...? Maybe you should get out of the milage pay mind set and embrace percentage pay.... i haven't run milage for 10 years....

This is 2 runs and home Friday noon ish till Sunday evening.... tell me can you do math.....? That's a little over $4,100 after ALL EXPERIENCES
$4,100 (net) ÷ 1,500 (miles) = $2.73 pre mile in my pocket.....