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They are moving to heavy duty pickup trucks, referred to as a hotshot. You see a hotshot being used to pull car trailers with four cars on it. Twenty years ago that was a class 7 or 8 truck as the traction unit.The cost per mile is a lot less for the equipment used when you use a hotshot. The traction unit is 55k versus 120k for a class 8 truck. The fuel milage for this unit shown is 12–14 mpg. A class 8 truck is 7.5 mpg at best. You also spend less on the tags for the hotshot. 535 bucks for that 35k legal combination and 1395 for an 80k tag.https://publicsafety.ohio.gov/links/bmv_commercial_truck_APR_registration_fees.pdfYour 35,000 pound example still requires a class A CDL. A combination over 26,000 requires a CDL. Many hotshots are set up and licensed to carry only 26k and less. You needn’t get a CDL to drive these. A regular driver’s license is all that’s required to drive this. The under CDL tag is only 230 bucks a year as well.Edit: I saw a hotshot today tagged to 42k pounds.

I was laying in bed with a fever from an abscessed upper tooth and my ex-boyfriend at the time was in the other room playing video games. I was texting with my friend in another state because they were checking in on me and they asked me why my boyfriend wasn’t taking care of me. Even more importantly they wanted to know why I wasn’t headed to the emergency room, because the infection could have traveled to my brain. I thought about it and realized that I had enabled his indifference of me.He would come home every day from work and play video games for hours. He refused to do anything around the house, so I ended up hiring for the maintenance that I either did not have the time or inclination to do myself because of my erratic and busy work schedule. He would eventually complain that I spent the money to hire people, to which I replied, “Well, it needs to get done and you aren’t bothering to do it.”I tried to have conversations with him to vent my frustrations, but to no avail. Nothing changed, no matter how I approached it. When I would ask him to help with the yard work or something that I could not lift, he would begrudgingly do it. Eventually, I would ask him, “If I have to do everything by myself, what do I need you for? How much longer do you think I am going to put up with this?” He shrugged and basically replied, “Oh well.”Eventually, I became as indifferent as he. He would start going out at night drinking with his friends and come home late and drunk. He looked at me and said, “It’s like you don’t even care anymore.” I finally replied, “You’re right, I don’t. I have been trying to work with you for months on this. I kept waiting for you to step up to the plate and man up and you never did. I don’t know if you thought I was joking all this time, but I wasn’t.”I was always typically the breadwinner in my relationships in the past, even including this one. When I ended up in the hospital and almost died from sepsis, I still ended up going back to work earlier than I should have because he would not grow up and accept responsibility as an adult. He was a commercial truck driver and never seemed to take his driving record seriously throughout our relationship. When his CDL was suspended because of a traffic violation in another state, he refused to deal with it. I had to contact a lawyer friend of mine to reverse the ticket and get the points off so that he could get his CDL reinstated. During the month that it took for the situation to get resolved and him being out of work, he did absolutely nothing around the house and just played video games. When he did get back on the road, he would continue to drive irresponsibly, as if he had no concern for his driving record or a potential repeat suspension of his CDL. I told him then, that I would not suffer through another suspension.After this relationship ended, I realized where I had gone wrong. Our age difference was not an issue in the beginning, because typically as you build a life together and grow, you mature. After 7 years, I was done waiting for him to grow up and be the man that I needed him to be.

Under the best conditions a cdl over the road driver can expect to cover 600–700 miles or so in an average day. Though the nature of what is being transported, the type of truck, the weather, traffic and the locations they are traveling through can massively influence how far they can go on any given day.Any kind of slowdown on the road can impact their distance.Cdl drivers in North America are limited to 11 hours in any given day and have only 14 hours in which to do it. In those 14 hours they must include a 30min off the clock break within 8 hours if they are driving. They also need to fuel their truck deal with traffic or deliveries, conduct routine maintenance, stop for paperwork checks or roadside inspections, border crossings and construction etc.At the end of their day they are required to be off duty for at least 10 hours. And they are limited to no more than 70 hours in any 7 day period.(or 80 hours in an 8 day period but that’s just making things complicated)If they reach 70 hours(irregardless of how much they drive) they must be off the clock for a minimum of 34 hours(and at least 2 overnight periods) before they are allowed to operate a commercial vehicle again.On top of all these they are required to maintain an accurate logbook of all of their duty status changes (which are now electronically logged as well)Beyond all the day to day paperwork, cdl drivers are subject to mandated random drug testing, routine physical evaluations, driving record and background checks. They are also responsible for a daily pre inspection of their vehicle and cargo, keeping accurate records of their loads,navigations from point to point and safely operating a vehicle that can easily be up to 80 feet in length and upwards of 120000lbs( that’s the equivalent of more than 24 SUVs)What seems like a carefree king of the road redneck occupation to some is actually quite complex and disciplined and requires a lot of professonalism and integrity.