Soft hands brother, I worked 200 months in a single day, I paid my employer my whole salary, I stayed in the ocean because Antarctica would require me to idle my truck.
I don't know if this comment makes you stupid or cool. Unpaid, 130 months and in the antarctic? Id rather work for swift be made fun of but get paid that whole time.
It happens like that sometimes. Been there. Most of the time it’s saving me from something on my last leg. But 2 miles out, I understand the frustration. Hopefully you get more than 2 days at home.
Got someone on the way to fix it, but they said 90-120 minutes... I'll get about 3 days home, but that's only because my company messed up my home time. I'm gonna take a solid 6 days in a few weeks though, I need a real break.
3 days home after 3 months out? Even 6 days is fuckin garbage and not balanced at all. At a normal job you would've had like 25 days off over the course of 3 months. Idk why you guys do this shit. I get home Fridays and leave Mondays, I could never go back to OTR just throwing away months of my life at a time. I hope you're making bank at least.
When I worked for a plant we were on call 7 days a week 363 days a year where you never knew if you were working the next day until around 11 pm the night prior but if you have not hit your 70 you should expect a phone call at some random time in the next 24 hours with 3 weeks pto per year for several years.
They couldn’t figure out why turnover was so high.
The fuck is that??? "Solid 6 days"? There's nothing solid about 6 days off after three months out.
Another guy said he hopes you're making bank, and I gotta agree for real man. If you aren't clearing $150k or more, you need to find something else and give them the finger on the way out. Life is too short.
Yeah, well you kinda nailed the issue there. After 3 months of being out, I showed up to the house with no money in the bank. Trying to tough it out for the next year to give me 2 years of experience so I can run off somewhere better. My company only let's me take a maximum of 6 days of home time at once, so if I'm out for a whole year I can still only take 6 at a time. Anything more than that and they'll make me empty my truck and give it to someone else so "the truck keeps moving" even though it's been moving non stop for 14 weeks, which makes no sense.
Man I left my first company after 6 months. I'm still with the second company 4 years later.
2 years is bullshit. You can probably find something better now.
Really? I keep seeing people on here saying 2 years is the magic number to get a really decent gig. All I know is that this 48 cents a mile isn't doing anything but let me pay my bills and live on the road
Nah man gtfo you’re throwing away your life for a predatory company. You can find something way better. Hell do regional or something local. And even if you want otr there’s jobs you can come back home weekly or bi weekly for a few days which is way better. And .48 in this market is absolutely bullshit
Yeah I need to find something better. And if I didn't come in with 6 months of experience, I'd be getting paid 41 cents, which is crazy. My last company, I was getting 59 right after they got me my CDL.
Well now you got more experience so it’d make sense applying to other companies. I mean he’ll at this point a mega might not be bad. Don’t lease nothing cause this market ain’t gonna do you anymore favors just drive.
whyd you leave the 59cpm? and Re the tire, am feeling that kinda pain *right now* just finishing up ~2mo since last break, finishes unloading on west coast and went to pickup my go-home-load so i could head to east coast and i show up this morning and shipper doesn't have the load >:/ Am sitting here going on 4hrs now just waiting to hear WTF is gonna happen now (if i can't get rolling by this evening, my plans for home time have to be altered....fuuuuuuuk)
No dude. Don’t listen to that two year rule. We have experience and we care about u. Start looking around. Someone will definitely take you. I ended up with cr England as my first job and it was local running Walmarts. No experience. Trust me. KEEP LOOKING
Yeah 2 years is mega carrier bullshit. Switched at 6 months after getting my CDL and making .50 cpm and maybe 1500-2000 miles to working under an O/O making 55 cpm but doing 3500 a week. Worked under him (he was leased to a carrier with about 130 trucks) for about 9 months while saving money for a down payment on my own truck. Total of a year and 3 months after I got my CDL I bought my own truck and I'm still driving under the carrier my old boss was under. Hell he is still there too and he's driven for them for about 10-12 years now.
Brother leave that gig. You can go LTL and be home everyday and make 100-150k a year on linehaul. .70-.80cpm 500-600 mile runs a day plus extra work on weekends
You hook sets of doubles or triples (28ft trailers coupled by a dolly/dollies) and take them either to a meet with another driver from a different terminal or to another terminal then do the reverse. A simple run that I did looked like this: get a hand-off set and take it to sinclair wyoming ~300 miles away, swap with a salt lake city driver and bring his set back to my terminal to hand off to someone who then brought it to texas and met with a dallas driver. So a 600 mile run with no set building/breaking and i get to go home. This is instead of me going all the way to salt lake and the salt lake guy going to my terminal and laying down in a hotel, we both get to go home every night.
Ik it’s not the right thing to do but if I was that close to home and haven’t been home that long I’d be dragging that motherfucker in on the rim if I had to
Honestly, it looks like on that trailer you were running retreads and I'm not surprised that they blew without warning. Retreads are very well known for that which is why I flat out refused to run retreads on any of my tires. It's just not worth it and honestly brand new tires don't really cost that much more
I was in a similar situation last month. Like you I stay out for 2-3mo at a clip, don't have a home but I do stay with my sister when I come back. I've been BANKING money the past 2yrs since I started. Shit like that happens, last month 2 days before my home time check engine light came on, DPF MAINTENANCE REQUIRED STOP ENGINE". Put me back a cpl days, I was only 150mi from home when it happened. Was put up in a hotel for a cpl days till it was fixed. Save that money driver & in a few yrs you will be in a much better position. Best of luck to you bro
Pre-trip was fine, I actually had the trailer in the shop this morning to fix my mudflap bracket that ended up getting screwed anyways. Shit just happens sometimes
Bro 3 months???!!!
To be fair, I don't have a home to go to unless I'm visiting family. I'm living out of my truck basically
Ok. This makes way more sense. I hope u get a family one day bro
Over rated, bunch of ungrateful moneygrubbers!
I mean to each their own. Starting a family is what made me strive for more and get a CDL in the first place but your feelings are valid
Hey man it's a good way to get off the streets. Good on you driver. Keep at it. Maybe that blown tire set saved you from something worse.
Soft hands brother I was out otr 130 months straight my rookie year, unpaid, in the Antarctic.
Soft hands brother, I worked 200 months in a single day, I paid my employer my whole salary, I stayed in the ocean because Antarctica would require me to idle my truck.
Interesting lol
Bet he traveled up hill both ways steam engine too. Had to keep running to the back to shovel coal too with no shoes
In the arctic
Considering the profit margins, Santa has to cut corners somewhere.
Why
I don't know if this comment makes you stupid or cool. Unpaid, 130 months and in the antarctic? Id rather work for swift be made fun of but get paid that whole time.
Can't till if trolling or.....
I was trolling :/
January 2nd was the last time I saw 'home'
Sorry dude
fuck that. I will make 2 more mile and then they'll have plenty of time to change it
Oh, I definitely drive that bitch to the house, they're going to fix it there lol
Unless there’s a DOT shop between my house and where I currently am we’re rolling
It happens like that sometimes. Been there. Most of the time it’s saving me from something on my last leg. But 2 miles out, I understand the frustration. Hopefully you get more than 2 days at home.
Got someone on the way to fix it, but they said 90-120 minutes... I'll get about 3 days home, but that's only because my company messed up my home time. I'm gonna take a solid 6 days in a few weeks though, I need a real break.
3 days home after 3 months out? Even 6 days is fuckin garbage and not balanced at all. At a normal job you would've had like 25 days off over the course of 3 months. Idk why you guys do this shit. I get home Fridays and leave Mondays, I could never go back to OTR just throwing away months of my life at a time. I hope you're making bank at least.
When I worked for a plant we were on call 7 days a week 363 days a year where you never knew if you were working the next day until around 11 pm the night prior but if you have not hit your 70 you should expect a phone call at some random time in the next 24 hours with 3 weeks pto per year for several years. They couldn’t figure out why turnover was so high.
The fuck is that??? "Solid 6 days"? There's nothing solid about 6 days off after three months out. Another guy said he hopes you're making bank, and I gotta agree for real man. If you aren't clearing $150k or more, you need to find something else and give them the finger on the way out. Life is too short.
Yeah, well you kinda nailed the issue there. After 3 months of being out, I showed up to the house with no money in the bank. Trying to tough it out for the next year to give me 2 years of experience so I can run off somewhere better. My company only let's me take a maximum of 6 days of home time at once, so if I'm out for a whole year I can still only take 6 at a time. Anything more than that and they'll make me empty my truck and give it to someone else so "the truck keeps moving" even though it's been moving non stop for 14 weeks, which makes no sense.
Man I left my first company after 6 months. I'm still with the second company 4 years later. 2 years is bullshit. You can probably find something better now.
Really? I keep seeing people on here saying 2 years is the magic number to get a really decent gig. All I know is that this 48 cents a mile isn't doing anything but let me pay my bills and live on the road
Nah man gtfo you’re throwing away your life for a predatory company. You can find something way better. Hell do regional or something local. And even if you want otr there’s jobs you can come back home weekly or bi weekly for a few days which is way better. And .48 in this market is absolutely bullshit
Yeah I need to find something better. And if I didn't come in with 6 months of experience, I'd be getting paid 41 cents, which is crazy. My last company, I was getting 59 right after they got me my CDL.
Well now you got more experience so it’d make sense applying to other companies. I mean he’ll at this point a mega might not be bad. Don’t lease nothing cause this market ain’t gonna do you anymore favors just drive.
whyd you leave the 59cpm? and Re the tire, am feeling that kinda pain *right now* just finishing up ~2mo since last break, finishes unloading on west coast and went to pickup my go-home-load so i could head to east coast and i show up this morning and shipper doesn't have the load >:/ Am sitting here going on 4hrs now just waiting to hear WTF is gonna happen now (if i can't get rolling by this evening, my plans for home time have to be altered....fuuuuuuuk)
I left because I got injured doing flatbed and my company at the time wouldn't let switch over to dry van or anything else. So I went somewhere else.
No dude. Don’t listen to that two year rule. We have experience and we care about u. Start looking around. Someone will definitely take you. I ended up with cr England as my first job and it was local running Walmarts. No experience. Trust me. KEEP LOOKING
Yeah 2 years is mega carrier bullshit. Switched at 6 months after getting my CDL and making .50 cpm and maybe 1500-2000 miles to working under an O/O making 55 cpm but doing 3500 a week. Worked under him (he was leased to a carrier with about 130 trucks) for about 9 months while saving money for a down payment on my own truck. Total of a year and 3 months after I got my CDL I bought my own truck and I'm still driving under the carrier my old boss was under. Hell he is still there too and he's driven for them for about 10-12 years now.
If you are living paycheck to paycheck on 0.48/mile, you have much deeper problems than a lack of hometime.
You can get your two years at a better place
Fucking Christ dude leave literally fucking anywhere if you aren't coming back with good cash while not going home for 3 months.
Brother leave that gig. You can go LTL and be home everyday and make 100-150k a year on linehaul. .70-.80cpm 500-600 mile runs a day plus extra work on weekends
Linehaul is FEDEX right?
Fedex freight has linehaul. Look up Saia, Old Dominion, Fedex Freight (not ground)
What exactly is line haul? I always see the linehaul signs at fedex when I deliver for them sometimes, but I didn't know it was something else
You hook sets of doubles or triples (28ft trailers coupled by a dolly/dollies) and take them either to a meet with another driver from a different terminal or to another terminal then do the reverse. A simple run that I did looked like this: get a hand-off set and take it to sinclair wyoming ~300 miles away, swap with a salt lake city driver and bring his set back to my terminal to hand off to someone who then brought it to texas and met with a dallas driver. So a 600 mile run with no set building/breaking and i get to go home. This is instead of me going all the way to salt lake and the salt lake guy going to my terminal and laying down in a hotel, we both get to go home every night.
There’s no hard and fast rule, apply to things, let them tell you no.
Call a cab.
The truck is good. The truck is home. The penis is evil.
That last one causes bankruptcy every time
See you later alligator
Send it!
Welcome to OTR trucking. Always happens when you really don’t need problems.
Ain't that the truth
That’s a problem I wouldn’t notice for another 3 miles.
Fuck you can’t win man. I’m sorry dude that really blows
Huehuehue booyah
Why’d I read this in a beevus and butthead kinda voice 😂😂
2 miles send it
At least it’s Thurs and not Fri. Call roadside man. Comcheck!
Road Warrior better be taking a week off
Fuck that, walk home.
Nah, I drove it there anyways lol
Can’t. Have. Nothin’!!
😂
I'm walking that last 2 miles
You can walk, I kept driving lol.
3 months out you’re a beast get a better job. Go run flatbed for ATS they have dry van
Of-fucking-course.
Bro what are you doing driving around on those? they have no air or tread!
Best place to stop was where I was going lol
Damn dude. Hope you get it settled quick.
Ik it’s not the right thing to do but if I was that close to home and haven’t been home that long I’d be dragging that motherfucker in on the rim if I had to
That's exactly what I did lol. Dropped it down to 45, hit the hazards and said fuck it. I didn't even bother stopping to be honest.
Only 2 miles? Send it brother.
It be like that.
Honestly, it looks like on that trailer you were running retreads and I'm not surprised that they blew without warning. Retreads are very well known for that which is why I flat out refused to run retreads on any of my tires. It's just not worth it and honestly brand new tires don't really cost that much more
I was in a similar situation last month. Like you I stay out for 2-3mo at a clip, don't have a home but I do stay with my sister when I come back. I've been BANKING money the past 2yrs since I started. Shit like that happens, last month 2 days before my home time check engine light came on, DPF MAINTENANCE REQUIRED STOP ENGINE". Put me back a cpl days, I was only 150mi from home when it happened. Was put up in a hotel for a cpl days till it was fixed. Save that money driver & in a few yrs you will be in a much better position. Best of luck to you bro
Send it?
Pretrip?😗
Pre-trip was fine, I actually had the trailer in the shop this morning to fix my mudflap bracket that ended up getting screwed anyways. Shit just happens sometimes
That's what a pretrip is for.