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panhandlepat · **^ Top** #11 06.20.2008

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Originally Posted by Lurchgs

By golly, THERE's a man who knows how to greet his wifeoid!

I can tell she's not armed!

PHP - man I feel for yah. But I'm contrary.. I LIKE driving at night. Of course, the problem is, to do that, I'd have to sleep during the day, and that would mean Idling the truck - not an action designed to get me in good with the company these days. So.. drive during the day (with the A/C on 'arctic') and sleep at night (with all the vents and suchlike open. Unless I is souf of de mason-dixie line. Den all heck's out fo' brekfas', and I idle de dang truk or I don' sleep. Comp'ny will jes' hafta live wit' it)

Without knowing your situation better, I'd probably go for the 34. If all things are equal at the far end, might as well work as best you can to prepare for the day after.

Just my 25 cents.

LMAO!! i hate doing 34'3 vi don't like sitting still unless i'm at home, 10-4!

Lurchgs · **^ Top** #12 06.20.2008

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Originally Posted by panhandlepat

LMAO!! i hate doing 34'3 vi don't like sitting still unless i'm at home, 10-4!

LOL - yah, I can understand that. You obviously got yerself a heck of a wimmin. I'd rather stay home too, in such a situation.

Actually, all things considered, I'd rather stay home, period. 34s on the road, though.. I miss my dog.

notarps4me · **^ Top** #13 06.20.2008

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Originally Posted by panhandlepat

LMAO!! i hate doing 34'3 vi don't like sitting still unless i'm at home, 10-4!

Well, you went with the wrong outfit then,,,,

5 weeks out that is 5 restarts unless you add 8th day gain... LOL

panhandlepat · **^ Top** #14 06.20.2008

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Originally Posted by notarps4me

Well, you went with the wrong outfit then,,,,

5 weeks out that is 5 restarts unless you add 8th day gain... LOL

uhhh-uhhhhhhhh!! usually i get to run my normal days but greedy me told'em i wanted a long weekend run so i wouldn't have to deal with night/weekend dispatch. i will have almost 4000 miles come monday though. only good thing about it.
think i'll tell my FM monday after i deliver not to put me on the board till tue am!!!!!!

losttrucker · **^ Top** #15 06.20.2008

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Originally Posted by panhandlepat

because of the dumb $$$ 70 hour rule i will have to leave laredo in am (doesn't really matter when because of this stupid rule)
drive 6 hours, stop because i haven't any more hours.
get up sunday, drive 6 hours, STOP (GRRRRR)
then get up at midnight sunday night to make apt. in loudon TN. by 1000 monday AM.
this is rediculous, i could, if not for this dumb #### drive 8.5 hrs tomorrow, 8.5 hrs sunday and get up at 5AM monday and finish off run. what a crock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why not just take off a 6pm so at midnite you can keep driving?

CMoore2004 · **^ Top** #16 06.20.2008

How on earth can you get anywhere near 4000 miles/week, especially without doing a reset? I tried getting my dispatcher to let me do a reset, but I just had to pick up some load that could've waited another 3 days to get picked up. Now, they're a little upset I don't have the hours to pick up and deliver these loads and seem to be running around like a chicken with its head cut off. Anyways, I like the 34 hour reset. After 6 days of hard running, I get to actually take a whole day off. I must say, I'm quite exhausted right now and could really use a day I could relax, but I don't see that any time in the future.

ssbowles · **^ Top** #17 06.20.2008

[quote=CMoore2004;472842]How on earth can you get anywhere near 4000 miles/week, especially without doing a reset?quote]
That's why he's setting in Laredo waiting to pick up hours at midnight each night. Run hard for 6 days, and then the hours run a little short, so you either reset, or wait til midnight and run what you pick up.

TLeaHeart · **^ Top** #18 06.20.2008

I feel your pain, the 70 hour rule can be a big problem, just finished a run from LA to Denver, where I had 4 hours, and then 5 hours to drive, and then picked up 13 at midnight, and drove all night to make the 6 am appointment. I was 1 1/2 hours late for the delivery, but I learned.

I used all those hours for driving, did my fueling at the end of the day...and this load was so heavy, I could only run 1/2 tank of fuel as I crossed each scale.

CMoore2004 · **^ Top** #19 06.20.2008

But I don't think that's the case here. If he's only picking up 6.5 hours, he wasn't running hard for 6 days, he was just running hard for the weekend so he wouldn't have to deal with the weekend dispatch. I took it as him not actually wanting to work those long days, because he doesn't like doing resets. If 4000 a week is normal without doing resets, then that's excellent. That's a 57MPH average for a full 70 hours, not deducting the pre-trip, post-trip, fueling, loading, etc.

CMoore2004 · **^ Top** #20 06.20.2008

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Originally Posted by TLeaHeart

I feel your pain, the 70 hour rule can be a big problem, just finished a run from LA to Denver, where I had 4 hours, and then 5 hours to drive, and then picked up 13 at midnight, and drove all night to make the 6 am appointment. I was 1 1/2 hours late for the delivery, but I learned.

I used all those hours for driving, did my fueling at the end of the day...and this load was so heavy, I could only run 1/2 tank of fuel as I crossed each scale.

Seems like a 34 would've been the wiser choise and actually given you more hours you could drive. If you drove a total of 9/48 hours in 2 days (4+5=9, yes), you had 39 hours you sat, and you could've combined the 5 and 4 hour days to make a more productive week to come. Plus, you wouldn't have had to wait around until midnight to pick up the 13 to drive, and likely would've made the appointment. By the way, you did deduct the hours you fueled from your available hours the next day, right?

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