Route Question 2: West Memphis to Houston

Now when you have a load going from chicago to dallas, you can just make a quick stop off in vegas to do a little gambling and still make your bonus. Just make sure to take i40 and avoid the mountains. The new bonus system is just swell.

 

Still have to maintan fueling and if jill has your fuel stop and opt for alt route your dinged for not folloeung fuel optimizer

 

Nah. If I were a gambler I'd rather do it in Atlantic City. That said I still try and keep my OOR in check just because I see no point in driving miles I'm not getting paid for.

 

Do the first route make sure you have all your hours when you do it.

 

It's monitored just like total miles per day, dead head vs paid miles and a host of other things. OOR won't make the Safety Manager of your division cranky so as long as you're following SNI's THREE COMMANDMENTS - Be Safe, Be Legal, and Be Where You Say You'll Be When You Say You'll Be There - I doubt a DBL will make an issue of it.

 

Obvious I was just being a smart ###, but reality is obvious. They put in idle just in time for summer so they can screw as many people as possible out of their bonus. It's been a cool summer though so Lofgren's sneaky little strategy probably will fail.

 

We run extra miles we don't get paid for all the time. I rather run a few extra easy miles, with in reason, than take a short cut with a bunch of turns and stop lights. I figure the miles are gonna be short anyways, may as well make it easy for myself.

 

We call it truck driving for a reason. To each there own, but a truck can survive off the interstate.

 

Finally, someone who appreciates the street tacos!! I love Fuel City, all truck stops should have tacos.