What's standard home time for regional?

There isn't a standard. You get what a particular company provides based on the freight they have. Choose companies carefully, you are deciding many things about your life as a driver.

 

What does the number of drivers have to do with the HOS regulations?

 

Hustle culture. 34 hours and not a second more.

 

There is a simple trick.
Just say no.

Any 34 I take usually runs to 40 or 42 so I don't have to start at 0200.

I control my own hours, in the interest of safety.
The 'hustle culture' doesn't touch me.

 

The answer to the original question is it depends on the carrier, what you’re doing, and where you’re running.

For 10 years I drove for a flatbed company and had weekends off. We ran the Northwest and into western Canada, the company was based in western Montana. If we were delivering and reloading on the Montana end on Friday we’d be done on Friday afternoon and we’d have to leave out Sunday around lunchtime for delivery Monday morning. If we were on the other end of the run Friday morning then we wouldn’t get home until Friday night or Saturday morning, but we didn’t have to leave out until Monday morning.

The way we ran if you took an extra day off during the week you may as well take two because you’d be missing out on a full round anyway. There are plenty of jobs out there that are regional and give you more than a 34 on the weekend.

 

Can you run mostly daytime instead of all night on regional?

Is the covid jab still required?

 

Regional is not much different from OTR, in my experience.
With both I have been able to stay on a daytime schedule.
The ability to say NO when they try to throw a night load on me helps.

And does anyone even ask about a covid jab anymore?

 

I work for standard plumbing and it varies depending on demand and manufacturing capacity. I tend to run harder than alot of other drivers do and I've had to take a 34 away from home on occasion, but I'm almost always going out and back so I don't have to worry about missing doctors appointments or other things.

My company is also I'd say kinda regional and kinda not it depends on your perspective. I would find out what lines they run specifically rather than putting alot of stock in the word regional

 

The 34 hour reset does not favor the driver.

It gives the carrier more time each week than a recap system for companies doing mostly local.

You couldn't work 14 hours a day, 5 days a week and have time left on your 8th day; 12 hours a day Mon thru Fri and you are tapped out for Monday.

However, 11 hours a day, 5 days a week always had a full 15 available for the following Monday.

With the 34 hour reset system you can work 14 hours a day, 5 days a week and reset on the weekend to start the following monday with a full 70 hours.

The reset allows motor carriers a way to flog more hours per week than the old system and still be called a 70 hours in 8 days system.