What is your schedule like, how many days do you work?

I was just wondering how owner operators out here besides my self work.

How many days a week?
Do you work on weekends?

 

I normally work 4 days a week and do not work on weekends.

 

I typically burn rubber for 2-3 weeks straight and then head home for a week or two. If it's time to go home and I'm a day away, I put it in the wind.
Unless a load goes home, then I take what I can get. But now I'm pushing hard till Christmas because I want to take an extended time off.

 

That's running pretty hard.

 

Not really. My current truck has 850,000 miles in 8.5 years. There's guys running 150,000 miles a year out here.

 

I ran between the north west and the ohio valley for close to 28 years. I use to spend a night in one of the hotels in yakima and 2 days at home. the run took 10 to 12 days depending. the last 10 years of it. I owned a 15 truck company running the same lanes. never took loads to the north east,south east or texas. didn't interest me to go there.

 

it varies for me there are some months I work 14 or 15 days a month then there are others that I work like 5 or 6 .
I cant remember the last time I worked more than 20 days in a month .

 

Year to date there have been 290 days in 2013. Looking at logs I've worked 136 of those days with a bunch of "10 hour breaks" at home on some of those work days. 75 days left in the year I'll be right around 6 months of actual working days in 2013. Last year I worked really hard - logged right at 7 months worth of working days. When capacity is tight I'm working. When it's not I'm at the house. Cause I'm running a business not a charitable organization.

 

I do local asphalt work , 1am-3pm Monday to Friday . Take weekends off, no hours left anyway. Can't wait till winter so I can get some rest.......

 

most weeks get home Saturday night in time for supper and leave back out early Monday morning.
some weeks get home late Friday night leave early Monday morning.