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the 14hr (realisticly 13.75) is the maximum number of hours i have and can actually drive in a day. I see where you're confused cause you keep seeing it as my 14hr clock, but i never touch my 14hr clock..

i drive for 11hrs straight, and then shut down. at that time i'm around 11.25hrs on my 14hr clock. after my ten hour break both of my clocks 11hr and 14hr clocks have reset and i start driving again.. it's still the same day and there's about 2.75hrs left in the day before it's the next day.

Monday
0000hr-0015 on duty not driving
0015-1115 on duty driving
1115-2115 sleeper berth
2115-2359 on duty driving
Tuesday
0000-0815 on duty driving
0715-1715 sleeper berth
ect....

 

Why is it so confusing to you? He drives 11 of 24 hours in a day, then takes a 10 hour break. That is 21 hours, out of 24, leaving 3 hours, which he is legal to drive in, as long as he hasn't used his 70 hours in 8 days.

 

Because if you look at his other posts and the way he was wording it. It reads much differently as in he's driving for 14 hrs a day (as in straight) and hes getting the mega mileage each day and week.

 

Cant say ive ever had a load that far, i only have 90 gallon tanks so i gotta fuel pretty often.

Even so, his mileages arent practical, some days its tough to get that kind of miles...

 

Lets be realistic here.. The odds of ANY company driver seeing these kinds of numbers are slim to none. The only way would be if the world was a perfect place and you had absolutley no issues while working. Drivers and or yard jockeys blocking the trailer you are picking up, people moving slow at the fuel desk, problems with the fuel pump and even traffic jams. I am going out on a limb here and going to say there is NO WAY a company driver is running these types of miles daily on a regular basis...

 

Weber Harvesting out of Riverton WY. I had a great time.

How about you?

 

No I don't do that type of mileage every week, maybe every other week, or at the minimum once a month, but once a month i do get atleast 4,000mi on a paycheck. I was just stating what can be done.. I'm young but i'm not that young. Running like that is horrible and i wont lie about it.. I loose track of the days, and the way things work around me because i become so use to driving little to no traffic. Then i go back to driving during the day and have to deal with "The Lost Souls" again and it's kinda a shock. It really has more to do with our shippers and receivers then it does anything else.. if i can load and unload at ANY time of the day then it makes things a whole lot easier to do it.

 

Foslien outta Benson, MN Tim and Nita are good people.......

 

Thank you for clarifying. We werent picking on you BTW just calling out something that doesnt seem right. I also know for a fact that people dont have to work for Swift's flatbed division to get experience as all you have to do is a little legwork. I dont dislike the driver's but I sure dislike that company and any others that are like them. They undercut rates just to run and try to make profit in volume instead of on that run which screws everyone else and them. They will also do backhauls for cheap and in my book THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A BACKHAUL

 

youre exactly right!!!

They think .40cpm is great. They don't realize that Swift charged $2.50 mile to move that load, and that is still too cheap. But this is why they are company drivers, and there is nothing wrong with that at all. Us who own out equipment have to run for more because we are not moving 3,500 loads a day at a .75cpm profit.