Profile For Robert G.

Talked to Melton a little bit & what I ve seen about them looks pretty good . Any thoughts ?

There are some situations where you can work 8 months and be off for 4 months but you'd probably have to be a proven driver for the company. I have a friend in the offices of a company with about 50 trucks and they're located way out in the country. They have some farmers that work for them from harvest to planting and then take a few months off to plant, maintain the crops in the summer, and harvest them.

The major companies aren't normally as open to this sort of thing because it becomes too complex if you have thousands of drivers with special circumstances to manage. But if you looked around at some smaller companies you might find that kind of opportunity.

The owner operator idea would only work if you put someone else in the truck to maintain the payments during your downtime but then you have to find someone that only wants to work four months out of the year.

thanks for the info. Drove OTR years ago , been driving local 20 yrs was giving serious thought about going OTR again with the right situation and the 8on 4off thing would be perfect ! Have my grandson living with us and time is more important than money . thanks for the help

This may be stupid question, but I ll ask it anyway. Are there any companies out there that will let you run for like 8mos. and take 4 off ?