How to evaluate mileage per jurisdiction for IRP report??

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  1. tibois

    tibois Bobtail Member

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    I'm a new entrant and would like to know how to evaluate distance/miles traveled between jurisdictions for IRP report. For instance, I pick up in Charleston, SC and deliver in Buffalo, NY; along the way through multiple states, I traveled on US and state roads. What's the easiest, more convenient way to account for miles traveled through each jurisdiction without having to stop at each border crossed to record the hub/odometer reading?

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  3. SHO-TYME

    SHO-TYME Road Train Member

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    Just write the miles down and be done with it, the way you want to do it will take longer to figure out than to just write down the real mileage.

    That or get a tape recorder and just read the miles, state, and date, then when you stop, run it back and write it down.
     
  4. Hammer166

    Hammer166 Crusty Information Officer

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    Garmin (and other) GPS' records the state miles and will output it so you report it. Easier to do some cut and paste rather than write it down all the time.
     
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  5. tibois

    tibois Bobtail Member

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    That's not the way I want to do it, I want to know how to do it or rather how is it done? Saying to Write the mileage down is easy but I want to know how to evaluate the mileage when I cross Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

    If you don't have to file an IRP form, perhaps you would not what I'm asking for. But thanks anyway.

    tibois
     
  6. Cranky Yankee

    Cranky Yankee Cranky old ######

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    des moines to SLC
    142 on 80 in IA
    455 on 80 in NE
    401 on 80 in WY
    80 on 80 in Ut and 10 on 15

    what was the question again
     
  7. Hammer166

    Hammer166 Crusty Information Officer

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    So we have a language barrier... what do you mean by "evaluate" miles?
     
  8. walterjacobo15

    walterjacobo15 Light Load Member

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    Some GPS devices have such feature. For much less you can buy MS Streets and Trips. It does a wonderful job.
     
  9. tibois

    tibois Bobtail Member

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    Thanks Jacobo, your answer is right at what I'm looking for. I knew there must have been a software for that.
     
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  10. Skate-Board

    Skate-Board Road Train Member

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    I'm scratching my head also Hammer!
     
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  11. tibois

    tibois Bobtail Member

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    Hammer, there is no language barrier. Do you remember in middle school the math teacher used to say to "evaluate" this equation on the board. Which meant to find its value, right?

    It's easy to find out how many miles one drove on interstate highways cause even truck stop booklets list how many miles of interstate highway cross each state. But if you cross a state using US and state roads alone, it becomes more difficult to know how many miles driven. So how many miles driven in the latter case must be "evaluated", of course as accurate as possible for reporting. That's what I'm asking, how to do it? There must be a methodology.

    The other day at a local bank branch conversing with a teller who used to dispatch for a trucking company, she told me that she new exactly what I'm after cause they used a software where departure point, destination, and stops could be entered and the software calculates the miles. In addition she told me that the miles rendered were not the actual miles driven but were based on freight train routes, something like that. In any event I'll use Jacobo's approach if no one has anything better.
     
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