Great home time?

Pete90

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Why do all carriers offer great home time and it's all the same,2 days. Some even go as far one day per 7 days of work. Sick of hearing great home time
 
as an individual, you have a choice.

read it, or turn away from it.

done deal.


at one time (and i think still now)..

they all used to say....


"Drive for the best, or Best equipment or Best loads"....yada, yada, yada.....

home time way back when i first started out, was "you get "some time off" at the house IF WE ROUTE you through there.

then it was like, "you get home time weekends for up to 2 days off"......

but no one new ever realizes, that 2 consecutive days off ARE a weekend, even if it is Tuesday/Wednesday......everyone thinks a weekend is Saturday/Sunday.....not true in trucking..2 consecutive days off ARE THE WEEKEND.....

so you know what..??

if you can, do as i did (as well as many others)......get off the road and become a local, dedicated or regional driver....DONE DEAL...no more ads to read, here, or listen to at the truck stop counter.
 
"Drive for the best, or Best equipment or Best loads"....yada, yada, yada.....
This pretty much sums it up and it cracks me up. I think Judge Judy calls it, "Huffing", when one beefs something up to something it really is not.
Anyway, here are a few of the "huffs" I recall reading on the back doors of those trailers:
Get miles, get home
More home time
Top pay
Competitive pay and benefits
Up to $.xx/mile (emphasis on "up to")
Health care available (emphasis on "available")
People oriented
Our drivers are our greatest asset
These are the ones that stick in my mind but I am sure that there are more but here is the bottom line. $$$ Yep, to them it's all about the $$$ and if you think about how much it costs them to operate their truck and what the profit margins are in that cut throat industry you will quickly realize that they cannot let you drive out of route to spend time at home and stay in business. Furthermore, if your trailer is loaded, someone on the other end is looking for their stuff. See, everything is just in time anymore and, "If I wanted it tomorrow I'd have ordered it tomorrow", and nobody cares about you and your family. On top of that, should your trailer be empty and not in a hurry to deliver someone's stuff you are most likely sitting in a truck stop nowhere near home (refer to that explanation above on costs to run the truck). So...once again it's all "huffing" to get you to work for them. Oh, by the way, it is the same everywhere in the truckload for hire business. So, if you want to sleep in your own bed, shower in your own bathroom and eat in your own kitchen you need to get a job in a different sector of the transportation industry.
 
I always argued against the idea that 48 hours off constituted two days off. If I got home at noon on Friday and got sent out at noon on Sunday, they would claim I had two days off. My argument was that if I didn't have two consecutive days where I didn't see my truck, I didn't have two days off.

USXpress told me I'd get two days at home for being out two weeks. At the end of my second week out I'd put in for home time but since I left on a Monday and requested hometime to start on the Friday night of the second week, they'd tell me I only earned 1 1/2 days home and I'd have to leave Sunday. It was really amazing how often my phone was dead on Sundays.
 
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