It makes very little difference between Ohio and Michigan. Lots of loads pass through both places, and once in a while you'll even get one that delivers close to where you live. Certainly, if you live the midwest freight lane states you'll have the opportunity to get home more often, even if it's just a day here and a day there. You can go home from anywhere, it's just that if you live closer to where the freight lanes are, you have a better opportunity to get home easier, or more often.
However, if home time is very important, you might not want to be in expediting. Those two owners aren't talking about getting home after 2 or 3 weeks out in relation to where you live, they're talking about the minimum you need to stay out in order to make it work. Drivers who go home at any and every opportunity do not last in this business, unless they are running local expedited loads.
If you work 2 weeks and then are off 1 week, you're working about 240 days a year. That's on the way bottom end of the minimum number of days a truck needs to be in service in order for the drivers, the truck and the owner to make enough money to keep on doing it.
If you work 3 weeks and then take a week off, that's about 275 days a year, more than a month's revenue more than the 2-week/1-week scenario. That one month can make you or break you. The longer you stay out, the less you spend at home, the better (for revenue, anyway).
Some people want to go home every weekend. Those people will not succeed in this business, by and large. That's why those owners discuss 2 or 3 weeks out and then 1 week home.
