OTR miles

I’d ask the recruiter. Why anyone wants to run that hard is the question I have. Look for good pay, and consistent miles. I wouldn’t believe any recruiter. Talk to current Drivers at the Company. Most likely get a much different story from them.

 

Really depends on how they setup the loads and where you're driving. Basically it's just 630 to 650 miles a day. Easily doable.

The reality is running coast to coast, you'll average 4400 miles a week. But you won't get paid for 4400 miles a week. You'll complete a 3000 mile load. Turn around but not finish the next 3000 miles until the next week. So you'll have 3000 mile week pay followed by 6000 mile week pay.

 

I'm skeptical about that. 4400 to 4600 miles weekly is not possible legally. I think 4000 is possible, with the right setup, meaning drop and hook, preferably. Even if you get live loads/unloads, the shippers and receivers can't eat up too much time. Also, the loads have to be planned properly, as in just enough time to run it, not 6 days to run 2000 miles cross country.

To answer your question, I maximize my miles by sleeping at the customer, if they allow such. If overnight parking is not permitted, try to get as close as possible.

Another method is "task consolidation" if possible. Fuel, food, shower in one stop.

It would behoove you to also understand all the HOS rules, split sleepers and the works. You want to always make sure your 11 stays ahead of your 14. If they start to run parallel, or your 14 gets ahead of your 11, you leave no room for error. Example: say you're at the shipper. They took 1½ hrs to load you. You've probably logged off duty or sleeper. Don't set off your drive time, and don't go anywhere for another ½ hr. You've begun a split sleeper. Get that down time to 2 hrs and make the delay at the shipper mean something. You'll see your 14 go back behind your 11. Then you can run with peace of mind. Protect that 11 at all costs.

 

Does the recruiter have a thick Eastern European accent?

 

I'd probably not even consider a company that said some BS like that. I run hard. I won't mention how hard or miles, but it's enough.

I can't see how a guy could do that legally as a company driver on ELD's. Traffic will start eating your clock the further east of I 29 you get, and some places in the west.

No way I'd run hot miles as a company man.

 

I’m sure they have overseas tech support to fix any ELD issues you may have.

 

I did 3940 miles last week which included 140 mile deadhead doing flatbed, it was 7 day week tho. It’s possible to hit 4200 miles a week every week if they have preloaded trailers. If it’s a live load than forget about it. 3200-4k miles no more.

 

You aren't hitting those number every week, you may hit them Week 1, but the following week your recap and 70 are going to catch you at some point and you will be stuck. Unless as others have said they have overseas help with E-Logs.

 

Imagine you really want a good office job and during the job interview the recruiter mentions they ALLOW their best employees to work 90-110 hours per week and those top-performers average $3,000 per week. Would you think that's realistic, you want to work those kids of hours, or that quoted pay is what you will get as a new guy?

Recruiters always exaggerate, often they inflate the good stuff a huge amount. NONE of the words of a recruiter are required to be accurate, reasonable, and they sure ARE NOT any sort of guarantee. It sounds to me like some sort of overseas run scam taking advantage of desperate newbies. If those are for solo drivers there's no way it's legal. Only you can look out for you. If you won't do that, don't complain about "what someone did to you."