Profile For Phillip R.

Thanks so much for all the replies

Thanks guys. My best bet is going to beat the bush to find a return load. That being said, my plan was just to run Amazon until I worked the kinks out of my new to me Freightliner M2 106. Then go OTR. I think I have except for one thing. I can't get the air to come out of the vents. I have defrost and floor, but no vent. I have replaced the control knob panel and two blend doors. I am betting there is a third, but I can't find it. At least not yet. I have put new steers on and new drives. For a box truck, it is riding pretty decent. I drove in the oil field in North Dakota for a while, class A and B. The heavy B's ride pretty good. Schlumberger takes care of the vehicles they have. Or at least they used to.

It is not all one state, it is from Alabama to Tennessee. I don't mind sharing at all. I own everything out right so my cpm is a little lower than some others. My cpm is about $1.09 per mile(based on 2000) miles. So the loads i am picking are paying anywhere from $2.31 to $2.77(so far) per mile. Amazon has the trip at 131 miles for this particular run. Problem is I have to dead head right on back to Huntsville from Nashville. So that being said, cut the price per mile in half and that is about what I am making(not great). To reply to Rob T....I am aware of that rule, it would be great exept for I still run out of time. It still won't work out because 3 am end time would leave me about two hours short on the return trip. I have to drop at post offices at specific times. That is why i thought about the sleeper birth rule. But I wonder does sleeper birth mean I could stay in a hotel for 7 hours? Then pick back up and I would have the hours to make it home.(I think)

I am trying to work out my hours for carrying amazon. I go one way and have to dead head home. Here is what I got going on, I log on the eld at 11am. I drive to amazon, pick up, then head to Nashville. They will have me unloaded by about 5pm. Sometimes they do a great job and have me finished by 330pm. But, worse case 5pm. So, they amazon has trips from La Vergne back down around Huntsville, but they don't start until 11pm, 12pm, 130 am. I want to stay up there and catch a load coming back. But I run slap out of hours. Does anyone know how I can work my hours out to catch some of these loads coming back without running out of hours. I thought about sleeper birth, but I am in a 26' box truck without a sleeper. I also thought about the 150 mile range. I just don't know how to do it. Oh, and I have not had my new entrants inspection yet. I want to be able to pass that. Thanks in advance.