Starting out for rookies

My company wants us to put all that stuff on our logs to, but they can want all they want unless they pay us to stop and waste time every 150 miles it'll never happen lol





American Trucker

 

With 25+ stops you ain gonna have TIME to run 3000-4000 miles a week. That's 428-571 miles a day, provided U never go home and that's a 7 day work-week. That's easily possible with a good dispatcher, but not with loads that have 25+ stops on them.

Now let's see if this can even work with a log book:

If your truck is set at 65 mph, the best you're gonna AVERAGE will be 60 mph. So let's take this 3000-4000 mile average and just say it's 3500 to round it out in the middle. That's 500 miles a day, working 7 days a week. 500 miles at a 60 average is 8.33333 hours a day. Times 8 = 66.6666666 hours in an 8 day period. That leaves you with only 3.333333 hours for 8 days worth of pre-trips, fueling, drop/hooks, live loading/unloading. Nope, .. ain't happening with 25+ stops on a load. You can't log all of that in a 70 hour log book. You will need to be taking 34 hour breaks to reset your 70.

Ok so I'll start the math over assuming you're doing this 3500 miles in only 6 days after factoring in a 34 hr break. (24 hrs plus a 10 hr break = 34 hrs) Now you're up to 583 miles a day, requiring 9.72 hrs a day. That adds up to 77.7777778 hours every 8 days. So there's not even time to DRIVE those miles. Forget fuel, pre-trips, loading/unloading, etc.


But it really aint a big deal. When I was your age I used to lie about stuff too.

To your credit, however, you do have a pretty good job for a kid your age. When I was twelve I was mowing lawns & delivering newspapers. You're running around the country in an 18 wheeler. I'm impressed!

 

yeah i call BS

unless of course all of your stops are right next door to each other

 

When you call BS on someone, you're supposed to use this little doubtful character >>>

 

I got a question. Which state has a better amount of freight running usually? I live in Texas right now, but my wife is trying to convince me to move back home to Maine. i don't really see much of any work up there for truck driving. except for a few local jobs. Been thinking about Virginia though

 

Sorry but if there's a secret pot of gold like you're looking for, anyone worth their salt ain't gonna blab about it on the internet.

 

a 25 stop run will take 5-6 days to do, usually starts with 500-1500 miles just to get to the first stop, and yep they are often very concentrated. I've had stops literally right next door.



And when I'm on LTL runs I average 2300-3000 miles a week, and 3000-4000 miles a week when running trailer load stuff. Read my thread, you can see every load, mile and everything i've done from apply to the company through last night when i updated it...





American Trucker

 

SWING.......................and a MISS!

You've been on here long enough and i'm pretty sure you also read my thread, which would mean you'd know everything that i posted in the post above this one.....


and yep, lots of stops in the same area.....LTL is what we do, they know how to route us, we arnt no reefer haulers running around lol





American Trucker

 

With 538 posts, I don't have TIME for that. I just stopped in for a minute, saw something that wasn't adding up and decided to declare "shenanigans".

 

yeah thats what I figured. Lol. Seems to be plenty enough here in Texas, I don't plan on going anywhere for a while, I don't really miss shoveling snow.