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Post by ironeagle on Dec 25, 2014 17:22:56 GMT -6
Remember I carried my Bunk on the Back of the truck I was not HOME much. BTW most over the road Drivers a gone on normal year 300-320 days a Year from their Families and other Loved Ones. We spend on average 3 Holidays a year on the road. I Normally spent Thanksgiving Easter and Memorial Day on the road. I allowed drivers with Kids to be home. I told my carriers I would stay out for every Holiday except 1 I needed home for Christmas.
So before you go never slept or things like that in my time OTR I NEVER got 1 OOS ticket for my Logs or for the Condition of my truck. I never got a Log ticket at all of any kind. I had multiple mothly awards for Zero Defects in my logs.
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Post by chevypower on Dec 25, 2014 17:26:47 GMT -6
Average 40 hrs a year wow that would be tough.
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Post by ironeagle on Dec 25, 2014 17:46:20 GMT -6
Average 40 hrs a year wow that would be tough. I was single and had no reason to come home. When I ran out of Hours in my log book I would take the time off in that city I was in. Lets see here I spent I lost track of how many weekends in Vegas on the Company dime so to speak as I was laid over with no load out and out of Hours. I spent a few days off in the DC area and went to the Smithsonian and other sights there. I basically considered myself a Paid tourist. Also if I had never had that last TBI that put me on the shelf the following Summer I was heading for the Last Frontier of Trucking aka Alaska to run up there. During the Summer I would have been hauling loads from Seattle to Anchorage and then in the winter except for 2 weeks around Christmas I would have been running the Haul Road up to Barrow. BTW the wages for the Drivers that do that run are in the area of 200 Grand a Year and when I drove it was 100 Grand a year just for the Haul Road Season. However on the Haul Road YOUR ON YOUR OWN when it comes to Breakdowns and you better be willing to deal with -50 temps and also not be afraid of dying on some of the most Dangerous roads there are out there. Down here in the lower 48 a 7 Percent grade is steep up there 7 percent is a Hill up there try 12-14 % Grades covered in Ice and Snow for 6 months solid and in the Pitch Dark of Arctic Winter where Zero daylight is the rule in winter.
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Post by chevypower on Dec 26, 2014 1:42:58 GMT -6
Average 40 hrs a year wow that would be tough. I was single and had no reason to come home. When I ran out of Hours in my log book I would take the time off in that city I was in. Lets see here I spent I lost track of how many weekends in Vegas on the Company dime so to speak as I was laid over with no load out and out of Hours. I spent a few days off in the DC area and went to the Smithsonian and other sights there. I basically considered myself a Paid tourist. Also if I had never had that last TBI that put me on the shelf the following Summer I was heading for the Last Frontier of Trucking aka Alaska to run up there. During the Summer I would have been hauling loads from Seattle to Anchorage and then in the winter except for 2 weeks around Christmas I would have been running the Haul Road up to Barrow. BTW the wages for the Drivers that do that run are in the area of 200 Grand a Year and when I drove it was 100 Grand a year just for the Haul Road Season. However on the Haul Road YOUR ON YOUR OWN when it comes to Breakdowns and you better be willing to deal with -50 temps and also not be afraid of dying on some of the most Dangerous roads there are out there. Down here in the lower 48 a 7 Percent grade is steep up there 7 percent is a Hill up there try 12-14 % Grades covered in Ice and Snow for 6 months solid and in the Pitch Dark of Arctic Winter where Zero daylight is the rule in winter. Sounds like an adventure more than anything ironeagle, but on the other side, it has too be hard on a persons body driving all them hours plus getting down and up that truck.
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