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Originally Posted by Sheepdancer
I have a hard time understanding why someone would want to do that. I mean sure all that time off is great, but you are only working 1/2 the year. In other words if a trucker working 14 and 2 or whatever made 50K a year.....you would be making around 1/2 that. By all means, Im not trying to talk someone out of it, hell...I recruit for a company that does it.
Maybe Im missing something here, but doesnt that plan equate to a part time job with part time pay?
Wouldnt something like Celedon be more attractive with their 1 week off PAID every 30,000 miles? I mean at least you are being paid 1000 bucks for the time off.
I think your just looking at "days" not hours. I only " work" half a year. I work Sun, Mon, Tues and everyother Wend. I work 12 hr. shifts. 36 hrs one week and 48 ( 8 @ OT ) the next. That's 84 hrs every two weeks or an avg. of 42 hrs. a week. Many of our plants that run 24/7 work like this:
Work Mon and Tues. , off Wend. and Thurs. , Work Fri., Sat, Sun. THEN the next week they are OFF- Mon., Tues. work Wend , Thurs. Then off Fri. , Sat, Sun. 36 one week 48 the next and have a three day week-end every-other week.
When I worked in Law Enforcement I worked 12 hrs a day for 7 days then off for 7 days. I was paid every two weeks for 84 hrs.
I guess it's just at how you look at it. :wink: