The federal government regulates how many hours you may drive per day and week, but the amount of time you spend on the road is up to you and your company. A typical OTR driver might spend three weeks out on the road at a time, or more if he wants to. You could drive by yourself or as part of a team. In a team, one driver sleeps while the other is behind the wheel. In this arrangement, freight moves faster because there is always one rested driver.
Comments (7). The United States Postal Service increased its rates for first class postage and related services (like insurance) on Jan. 27, 2013. The price of a first class Forever stamp increased to 46 cents from 45 cents.
Postal Service seeks 50-cent stamp prices. Mired in red ink, the U.S. Postal Service is warning it will lose as much as $18.2 billion a year by 2015 unless Congress grants it new leeway to eliminate Saturday delivery, slow first-class mail by one day and raise the price of a postage stamp by as much as 5 cents..S. Postal Service lifts stamp price by 1 cent. The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service announced on Tuesday a one-cent increase in the cost of mailing a letter, starting in January. The new prices lift the cost of a first-class stamp to 45 cents starting on January 22, 2012, the first increase in more than two years.