Most Legal Miles in one 11 hour shift

723 miles from Sabetha Ks to Bryan Texas. Pulled into customers yard with 00:00:25 left to run. I run the same route weekly and drive within 3 minutes of drive time about once a week. I do the Belle Plaine Service plaza in Kansas to Sisseton South Dakota weekly. It’s about 681 miles. I drive non stop to Sioux City Iowa, in about 7 hours. Fuel and do a 30 minute break before heading up I-29 to Sisseton.

It’s a good life in the Midwest. I spent a decade running in out of New England but I was on paper back then. No parking? No problem, I’ll drive until 0400 and grab a spot when people are leaving. Those were good days that I don’t miss.

 

I didn't mean to imply that one would ever get in trouble for actually using Yard Move. I just chuckle at the lack of internal consistency of the laws we work under.

I mean I guess if someone really ticks off an LEO, ticks off the judge, and ticks off the appellate judge they might get in trouble. But unless one is going that far out of their war to tick off everyone it's not an issue.

 

Top speed in the US is 75 isn't it? If, IF, there was 825 miles if road that maintained that speed you'd get 825 miles. There isn't though.

 

Top speed in the US is 85 MPH, but in practice, we only see 80 MPH in states such as TX, NV, UT, and WY. I believe the toll road that bypasses Austin, TX is an 85 MPH highway.

Speed limits in the United States - Wikipedia

 

Hah, I remember driving through Wyoming (in a car) and there were no posted speed limits. They don't have that anymore I guess.

 

I’ve done 770 legally. 1300ish on paper.

 

I’m not aware of any states without speed limits. In my 6 years of driving, I have always seen them on highways. Some towns sometimes have signs indicating that in streets without speed limit signs, the speed limit is such-and-such.

 

Ir was Montana actually. The speed limit was "reasonable and prudent" Basically the number of fatilities doubled once that was the 'limit'.

Here's a (fairly biased, but informative) article about it: Montana Was Once the Last Bastion of Hot, Nasty, Bad-### Speed | Feature | Car and Driver

 

Mercedes Benz also caused Montana to do away with "reasonable and prudent". A group of MB test engineers decided to us I 94 as the Autobahn with 5 pre-production sedans, if I recall the story correctly, they were stopped doing 115 and still accelerating.

Colorado State patrol has been posting pics on their FB page of a car stopped outside Limon this past week doing 131 mph, apparently it was initially clocked by aircraft.

 

So your not buying that it was a really big yard huh. That's OK DOT didn't buy the notion that I was running teams because I had muti-personalities.