[Karoo]

Aren’t there companies that put pressue (perhaps financial pressure) on trucker to work many hrs at time to keep schedule?

[wally_bert]

I worked for one that did not care if you have working on site for 12 or 14 hours by yourself for several days and ordered a drove home across two states that night.

[knarf]

I've been out of the loop since around 2009 (OTR), but what some companies did back then was send a guy out and keep him out, away from being near home, for a month to six weeks.

I knew of two drivers for one company that complained this and they said there were others.

I never had a problem ... legitimate nor with two books.

The two book think didn't last long ... maybe two or three months ... and I was glad to be rid of the experiment.

It was my friend that talked me into trying it.

Sure, I made money ... but I was getting older and that kind of driving is for younger guys.

After a certain age, we can't WAIT to go to sleep!