Yea I pull out of Indiana and it is a haul to the west coast for sure. Last week I left my house in NC went to Indiana then to Oakland CA then back to Indian and back to NC all in one week.

I'm not really a "hot shot" although that term has been used to describe any 1 ton pulling commercially. The term really belongs to the 1 ton trucks pulling in the oil fields. They get priority loads of parts needed to get to rigs in the middle of nowhere. Pretty much rig is down lots of money being lost get the parts there no matter what. And after eeing some of these roads and temperatures out here they deserved the term "hot shot trucker"