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When talking about US “trampers” you have to consider how long they are out on the highway for.
A lot of drivers are on a basis whereby they are out on the road until such time as they actually have a need to go home and then they have to send a home request to their dispatch office who will try to get them a load coming home. Depending which company they work for, some take a dim view of drivers who do that too frequently.
It is one thing to leave home to go on a long trip but I should think quite another thing, especially psychology, to leave your family to go to work on a completely open ended basis with no actual return date scheduled. Impossible to have a life outside of work at all.Yeah, pretty much like Euro-trampers where distances involved are much longer therefore home trips - much less frequent, like once every 2 or 3 months.
In many cases the real irony is that there’s no need for it with many drivers being their own worst enemy in not wanting to just say no and job share by handing the truck over to another driver on a 1 month on 1 month off type rota basis for example.IE greed combined with gone cab happy.In addition to often needless tramping operations when trunking would do the same job just as well.
You are off your nut mate, 6 months work will get you 6 months wages, drivers in the US are already paid ■■■■ poor wages in the majority of cases and you want them to give half of that up.
Then there’s also the inconvenient fact that there is a driver shortage, so for argument’s sake, let’s say that 60% of the c.2,000,000 trucks on the road in the USA are engaged on long haul, a month on, month off schedule, so it would require 1,200,000 new drivers just to keep the status quo.
What’s your solution to that problem?