My mentor lived four states away from my home. I got lucky, and we had time on a run he let me stop for a few hours to visit.
Generally, you can usually get home once, more if your mentor is on a dedicated account near your house, but they tell you to be prepared to not go home, and that's the truth.
Up to about a few years ago, Swift's policy was to keep the students as far from home as possible, because there were too many that changed their mind and stayed home last minute if they got by the house on a mentor truck. They've slacked up on that quite a bit since I think they finally realized that keeping a trainee away from home intentionally wasn't going to fix the retention problems.
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