Comments By Kat

My question was pretty poorly worded. Instead of "What is a day off?" I should have asked "How long is a day off?"

Despite some excellent answers, I'm still not following the timing of days off for an OTR driver. If I have 2 days of home time coming to me and get "home" at 3:00 pm on Friday, when is my two days of home time over? Sunday at 2:00 pm, Monday morning, or some other time?

With Prime, the day you get home and the day you leave are not considered part of your time off. For example, I recently took four days off (Sat-Tues). I got home about 4pm on Friday and even though my available time was noon on Wednesday, the load I got didn't require me to actually hit the road until 5pm. I just consider that bonus time!

I am a teacher turned trucker and honestly wonder why I didn't do this sooner. Taught high school chemistry and physics for 14 years. Got my CDL through Prime last summer and have been on the road ever since. I LOVE IT!

Very cool!

I'm so sorry to hear about this. Praying that you find peace and comfort.

I have a small microwave, a toaster oven and one of the little egg cookers. Those three things do just about everything I need.

Here's one.... One of my first few loads, I had a difficult dock to get into. Took me more than 30 minutes, and I was proud of myself for getting it in there without hitting anything. All was good until they sent the yard guy out to tell me I had backed into the wrong door.

When I was in training, we were told to plan to take a turn in 6th gear if we weren't going to have to stop. That seemed to work well for me....got me to 15 mph or less in order to make the gear work. One of the mistakes I made during my test was on the home stretch....took a corner a little too fast and did it one handed because I forgot to get it into gear before the turn. Ended up shifting down at the last second and saving it. Find a mantra or system that works for you, and do it the same way every time. After a while it almost becomes like muscle memory.

That's awesome!

Congratulations!!

Last week, my FM went on vacation. He was out Friday a week ago until today. Our payday cut off is Tuesday. Anyhow, right after he left, I started getting awful loads...short miles, way too much time on them, plus lag time between loads. Had 3 of those back to back before I pleaded with dispatch to have pity on me, explaining nicely that I just finished the week with a whopping 1300 miles. I don't know if it was my approach or just nobody noticing what a serious run of awful I had gotten, but things sure turned around. I am finishing this pay week having run just over 4000 miles. Barely had time to sleep, shower and eat, but man it's been fun! Absolutely everything was on point. I had committed loads pre planned before I even reached the 90 for every single load and was able to manage my clock so that everything clicked into place. Was very glad that my guy was back at the helm today and let him know I would like more weeks like this one. LOL