Why do so many companies not allow you to bank hometime?

Celadon lets you Bank home time! I’m sitting on 107 earned days off right now. A lot of my time at home is with a load; so, the earned days off just accumulated! Lol

 

You can keep your truck for 107 days at home?.

 

.. I use the truck to deliver your own load off of the load board☝️

 

Nope: 2 weeks at a time; I have been able to keep it for 4 by extending an extra week, then another week; and truck wasn’t needed, then.. But, my time is still my time and banked for me to use when I need too....

 

You lose a incredible amount of payroll sitting home.

In my time I liked to be out between March and Nov never really going home. Stack that money. 6 months on the Gulf Coast during winter is my idea of a good time. Just alot of rain.

Home is not everything. If you are trucking you need to run. To go home interrupts that productivity.

There is a old saying, wherever you are, there you are. So make a home in that truck. You will be in it a while. It's not for everyone. Winters are absolutely a good time to go home and stay there after you have made your millions most of the year.

 

Wtf is home time?

 

I read a comment about the driver shortage and several others about different things. Let me speak for the (other) side of this. Almost all Carriers have large capitol investments or outstanding loans in these tractors and trailers. When they are not moving they are not making money. There comes a time when as a driver you are totally exhausted and spent. I remember watching my father come home and fall into his lazyboy and sleep for 2 days. Most carriers understand that drivers have to get out of that tractor from time to time. To just keep on driving after you have did so for weeks even months makes the chances of you as a driver making a bad mistake because your judgement is off increase. This is all about balance. The best situation is when both the company and the driver are flexible. I delivered once near Gainesville Georgia, I had only been out a week. I was called by my fleet manager and told freight was going to be slow in that area for several days. Did I want to go home ( I lived very near Gainesville then) or go park my tractor at our Atlanta terminal. I chose to go home. I found a place to park my rig. I was home 3 days and late that evening I was called and told I had a load on my QC from Greenville SC going out to Arizona. I don't know but it always seemed that when I had a smart fleet manager I always got home when I asked and my average home time was in the 3 to 4 day range. that was always more then enough time for me to get rid of the diesel in my blood.Trucking is changing. Since I no longer drive it is not something that bothers me too much. What does bother me more though is all the whining about all the greedy unfair ######## at the megas. It is what it is, NOBODY held a gun to your head and made you get that CDL.

 

No not at all.

Most mega carriers are leasing equipment on a capital lease with milage only terms. This keeps sitting trucks from costing them anything. Not at all the same as your implication.

The company is not flexible only because all these mega companies suffer from 100+% turnover.

Just think about it for a minute. Even if you don't believe me about the capital lease, 6 days of time off a month is the same expense ($0) weather it 6 days in a row or 3 days twice a month.

The big difference is you can get done a lot more done on the way to a new job in 6 consecutive days then you can in 3. The more consecutive days at home a driver has the easier it is for drivers to summit an application, attend an interview, get a road test, do a UA and wait for the UA results.

Not banking hometime discourages a driver from jumping ship and increasing there mega's already alarming 100% turnover.

The megas misrepresent the job they offer to drivers and the community as a whole. If it wasn't for the misrepresentation, they would have to pay their employees considerably more.

 

Don't expect extended home time without the tractor being slipseated.
If the wheels are not turning, the truck is losing money.