So I need help deciding about my next load

Old rule of thumb, do the best you can, if you get tired, go to bed

 

Talk to your dispatcher - they assigned this to you so see what their solution is. Maybe the start time on the 13th needs to be pushed back a bit.

 

Forget my solution. You ain't running paper logs. Good luck. ( but you didn't say if you have a governed truck either! )

 

If you parked at 7PM tonight you can leave at 5am. You have about 5 hours to the DC if you push it at 60MPH average speed, and if the speed limit is 65. You might make it in 5 hours. So you could be at DC by 10am or 10:30. Drop and hook and scale. Maybe 1 hour. So you pull out by 11 or 11:30. Then you have 7 hours to the store or as close as you can get. If you drive 5 hours to get to DC you could have 6 hours of driving time left for the day. You need 7 to make the store. So you will be 1 hour short. Unless you can make it up by speed. Let say you can't and you have to stop.

If you pull out of the DC at 11am or 11:30. You could drive 6 hours. That's would be 5 or 5:30pm. Then you could take 10 hours off and pull out at. 3:30 am and be at store 4:30 for 5 am delivery.

I don't think you will.make it just not enough time because those number are averages. Plus you have pre trip and post trip inspection at 15 minutes eachp and probably 1 fuel up for another 15 minutes that. That another 45 minutes. Plus you have 30 minute break or maybe 2 or bathroom break and food.

I usually say driver can do 550 miles in say 24 hours maybe 600. Plus 1 drop and hook. 600 /24 hours is 25MPH average speed. 550/24 hours is 23MPH and 500/24 is 21MPH. You can pick you own number and it will give you easy way to figure out the exact delivery times you can make.

Say you have to drive 650 miles and you pick 23MPH for 550 miles a day. 650/23 you need 28 hours plus say 1 hour for drop and hook and scale. 29 hour to make delivery. Say you have 271 miles to DC then 350 miles to store. That's 621 miles, you would need 621/23 you would need 27 hours plus 1 for the drop and hook and scale. 28 hours from 5am when you can start driving again.

5 am on the 12 to 5am on the 13 is 24 hours, you need 28. So 5am plus 4 more hour is 9am. I bet you will be at store for delivery on the 13 at 9am. It will be very close. If you push the speed limit more you might make 8am and faster drop and hook and scale. If you can do 600 miles a day that's 24 MPH average and only 621/24 is 26 hours. That would be 5am on the 13 (24 hours) plus 2 more would put you at the store at 7am. People can see it very tight run. It doesn't solve the problem taking 10 hour break at the store before. You will be lucky to make store by 7am-9am on the 13

 

So the OP asks for advice when starting a 10 on a very tight, probably impossibly tight, load.
Here it is, in 5 hours or so from when it started.

I'm wondering, how much sleep this driver will get if he/she is actually watching for replies, or even gets up early enough to log in and read them?


Maybe the real problem is accepting loads before you properly plan them to see if it is actually feasible.
Which gets down to an even more basic problem of sales people and planners setting these things up in the first place.

 

Sorry, I will try again:
Thursday (today) - 7:00 pm -start 10 hour break
Friday , June 12:
5:00 am - pretrip and get running down the road by 5:15 am. Keep the left door shut.
10:15 am - arrive at DC for pickup (5 hours drive time = 55 mph average)
11:15 am - depart for 1st drop
5:00 pm - park it where you're at and do post trip
5:15 pm - begin 10 hour break
Saturday, June 13:
3:15 am - pretrip
3:30 am - depart for 1st drop
4:45 am - arrive at 1st drop. Since you're early, share donuts with the security guard
5:00 am - ontime delivery

IF NOTHING GOES WRONG.

 

= looking for an early grave if you run those kinds of hours for too long.

And 'park it at where you are at'?
That is just looking for trouble.

 

whats this for. (dc) target, walmart, kroger

 

sounds exhausting lol

 

I know. Makes you appreciate still being on paper lol