Starting at Crete 2/18/26

47 mph average speed is really not that high to be honest… Most companies use a 50 mile an hour average dispatch speed… I have quite a bit of loads where I do 700 miles in 25 to 27 hours and I don’t drive crazy at all to do it. Just do what you can

 

Do you have to follow the routing?

 

You do not have to follow the routing completely..: take your most sensible route and send a form 32 for a new fuel solution.. they will not say anything..

 

The only time I follow their routing is if it matches mine. I routinely run at or below their paid miles going my way. I have been as much as 140 miles under their loads paid miles on a Dallas to Grantsville, UT run.

 

Ignore their routing. As long as your route isn't too far over what the paid miles are, they won't say Boo about it. I regularly run my route (and occasionally run much less actual miles then what they're paying). They don't require you to run their route. In fact, the CoPilot system is garbage when it comes to routing. It's not uncommon for it to route you 100+ miles over what they're showing as paid miles.

 

From what you've posted in this thread and your difficulty getting miles while at Schneider, you do have significant responsibility for the difficulties you're having with your asset manager. I don't know the whole story, but if you approach these conversations with an attitude of "how can I help you help me?" you'll be able to learn how the system works, and how you're throwing a spanner into it. It's easy to take umbrage and get defensive, but remember you're still very new in this industry and have a lot to learn.

That's a respectable week, provided you delivered on Day 7. Assuming it's 7 and reset, you averaged about 48 mph per hour of on duty. That indicates you're either not being efficient with your tasks or you're not managing your clocks. Pay attention to how long things are taking you and start looking for ways to get things done more efficiently. I'm not saying cut corners, just avoid wasting time. For example most P&G's make you slide your tandems before ingating - are you doing the post trip at the same time or are you sliding the tandems and post tripping later? When you pre trip in the morning are you doing a lot of walking back and forth or making one sweep around? Little things like dropping the hood and latching the passenger side before stowing your hammer don't seem like much, but it adds up. As for managing your clocks - make sure you go off duty any time you can. Finish your pre trip in the morning and need to go to the restroom before pulling out? Go off duty. Waiting for something? Go off duty. Even if it's just going to be a minute or two, go off duty. Those minutes add up, and you'd be surprised at how long those "quick things" actually take.

Moving on from time management, you ran 40% of your miles for April in 1 week. Even with maintenance issues and home time, that's concerning. That indicates either a problem with trip planning or a problem communicating your availability.

Based on this, I think it's a trip planning problem. 1,400 in 3 days isn't that much, it's the bare minimum I'd expect. Back in April you mentioned that 1,000 miles in two days was impossible and you seem to think your current load of 715 miles can't be done in under 24 hours. Both should be easily done - even heavy loads going through the mountains. 715 miles shouldn't take more than 13 hours of actual driving, which leaves a hour for other things like pre trip, fueling, half hour break etc. You'll have to run on the 10 and have your stops well thought out, but it barely counts as 'running hard' in my book. If you only want to run 400 mile days you might consider running recaps. I used to run recaps all the time with the AOBRs, but found that with ELDs it was easier to just take a restart after 6 days.

I'm not trying to rag on you, just offering some perspective.

 

The truck cost money,the shops cost money,the offices cost money,all of Cretes employees (including you ) cost money.
The source of this income comes from the effort we put into our job.