Trip Planning "Coefficients?"

But at that point you'd be having to calculate your driving hours to see where in a shift it would fall. Most of the planning is done at that point, so why revert to a less reliable method?

 

To decide whether to use the higher or lower average, you'd have to plan the trip the normal way...

 

When im planning a trip I go by 65 mph plus and extra hr for traffic works for me.

 

Good point. I never ran multi-day trips enough to need this. Half of my OTR was trips completed in one day and half trips from my home to L.A. or San Fran area. So I knew I'd be in L.A. 2.5 days after leaving home, or vice versa.

Don't drop this effort due to comments. Most drivers, like most people, just don't pay attention to many details and they walk into problems or blame "luck" for everything. I think I share some of your analysis nature. You may find your idea works, as is or with modification, and you may also find it leads to some other good idea.

One thing I did was record my odometer and date religiously. That allowed me later to go back and test ideas or compare techniques.

Good luck.

 

I drive as fast as I can and get there when I get there... way less headaches....

 

You're right, he should drop it because it's unworkable. You can't use a fixed average speed when your actual average speed varies over the course of the trip.

What!?! Simple analysis showed the premise was flawed.

see above

not using the initial reasoning!

I'm all for encouragement. Encouraging dead ends is counter-productive.

The initial premise is akin to setting the 5th wheel for your average fuel load. Try that and let me know how that works with a full fuel load.

 

When trip planning, I use the listed trip miles as the minimum. Then I multiply the listed trip miles by 1.1 and round up to the next whole number.
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.Example 769 miles is the listed trip miles/minimum miles. 769 * 1.1 = 845.9 miles which I round up to 846 maximum miles. More than 846 miles is out-of-route. 846 miles divided by 50mph average speed is 16.92 hours. Round up 16.92 hours to 17 hours of driving hours.
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I use this as my starting postion for figuring the time to complete this load.

 

are you on E-Logs or Paper Logs?


Paper average 60-63mph for the day, depending on the route (speed limits)

On E-Logs your SOL




American Trucker

 

Either my elogs are off or my speedometer is. I logged 634 miles today in 10 hours 3 minutes of driving time, but my trucks governed to 61....?

Idk but i thought it was funny

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