mileage

It works like this, you look at the odometer at the begining of you 11 hours of driving, and then look at it again at the end of your 11 hours of driving. Thats how many yours YOU can drive in an 11 hour shift. Nothing more and nothing less.

 

The regulations don't address the number of miles during the 11 hour period. You can drive between zero and infinity as long as you don't drive longer than 11 hours without a 10 hour break.

For us 1oo air-mile logbook exemption drivers there is also no limit on the number of miles that may be driven, but that's another story.

 

you can drive however many miles the speed limit allows in 11 hours legally

 

We have a "750 Club" here, if you show driving that far in a 24 hour period, you'll automatically trip the "I don't believe it" alarm and the compliance techs check your PeopleNet logs until they find out how you cheated the system. (Whether you did or not).

Your alarm might be set to a lower level than ours.

 

Your company can have any limit on miles they decide. It's always important to know if you are discussing policy, preference, or law.

 

The really safe way is to log no more miles than you can drive based on the speed limit less 5 MPH. This used to be the rule of thumb. Of course if your truck won't do the speed limit then it would be governed speed minus 5 MPH. The powers that be have always held you can't average top speed. It is also possible to recieve a speeding ticket based on logging miles that can't be covered without speeding. Using this method and a speed limit of 65 MPH, you could average 60 MPH for 11 hours or 660 miles.

The simple way is drive the speed limit +/- 3 MPH and log it like you drive it. It is really hard to go wrong this way.

 

Agree with BigJohn54,

Our trucks run 73 but i log no more than about 650 to 675 per day.
Most days i try to show a little less than 11 hours driving and log 600 or less.

 

Well I may be wrong for this but I believe in the 5/10 rule. Every time I stop its 7:05 7:20 7:35 or 7:50 and when I leave its 7:10 7:25 7:40 or 7:55. It only takes me 5 min to get slowed of the highway and into a truck stop and 5 min to get back on and up to speed there for if I am in a 70mph zone I can justify 70mph. But normally I dont log over 715 miles in 11 hours