I usually stay out 18 days and go home for 3. Sometimes I want to just stay home longer but once on the road I don’t really get burnt out until week 5. I wouldn’t agree to being out for 9 months straight unless I was single without children and I wanted to keep it that way until I had a nice amount saved up. Even if driving isn’t the best paying you can definitely save a lot of money if you don’t have an apartment, a car, a significant other, any children, and your monthly bills are your cell phone and your food. Stack up the money when you’re young, have a life when you’re done. Don’t expect this staying out for 9 months will keep you married if you were married before you left. Don’t expect your children to remember who you are if they’re less than 5 years old. Fuck that shit unless you’re single. Perhaps you’re 21 years old and by the time you’re 25 you’ve met someone on the road, another driver, then perhaps you can switch to teams and then when you’re having children one or both of you needs to be home for them. Maybe if you saved enough money you can work opposite shifts Monday-Friday and everyone home on the weekends. Make something work. You worked 9 months without going home because you wanted to. Don’t expect them to understand that now you want to be home. You could easily have a month of home time or more for how long you were gone but what is “home” at that point? Your job?