No miles

MysticHZ,
Two-thousand six-hundred fifty (2,650) miles is not a slow week by any stretch of the imagination. You're either joshin' or you have an extremely helpful Driver Manager.

 

noooooo...he aint joshing,and thats not that busy either...its good but aint great...you should see the numbers he puts up,lol....i'll let him speak for himself.i just did 2720 mile week with 2.5 days sitting around......and i wasn't planned once...mac 30 is your friend...and i just got back from 6 weeks off...u can do it...but you have to know swifts system pretty well,and keep up your mac 10 and 34...and not be a lazy trucker...don't need a dm to do it either..i dispatched myself all week coz they babysitting a bunch of fleets in phoenix..

 

just finished this week with 2720 loaded this week, and that included that I had to take a 34 that I finished this morning. All of two loads, and both were MAC 30. One was even outta PHX and that was after talking to the planners and them telling me that they did not have anything long. A PHX to KS load, 1080 miles, and the planners said they had nothing. Already starting this week with 900 miles. Personally, I just like to stay around 2800 miles per week. Not a super trucker here anymore. Getting just do darn old for that.

 

Wow.
2 2720 mile loads in a single week by 2 drivers in a row, both with loads of time off.

Averaging more than 600 per day, even with load and unloads.

Why am I not really believing it?


It is just as fantastic as Scotty beaming 3 people from 2 locations onto 1 pad in a single shot.

 

Maybe you should ask questions...instead of posting with skepticism,with out any knowledge....

 

Nope.

Sorry.

Unless it is pointing out that at least one of you 'started the week with 900 miles'.
Meaning that you finished the load on Thursday, so it went to the next weeks paycheck.
Also meaning that the previous week was very short on miles.

 

I started last week with a load from PHX to Salina, KS, pu on Wed and delivered on Fri. Then pu on Friday in Beatrice, NE and delivered to Portland, OR on Monday morning. You can do the math. And picked up this morning South or Portland that will deliver tomorrow in Bozeman, MT. My time off happened after delivered on Monday. Had less than 15 hours on my 70, Monday morning.

 

wed to fri afternoon....1050 fontana to troutdale...sat until sunday afternoon....portland to cheyenne..1150 miles...dh to loveland on tuesday afternoon...to logan utah 463 plus the 57 miles to loveland....sat all day today to deliver load....sitting at sams now for delivery....satisfied moose?

 

....guess you wouldn't know what an "easy" 2700 mile week is....too bad for you...all on one paycheck....and i erased 2228.00 in debt from time off too...put that in your pipe...

 

I will ask-- what is the secret to get 2500 miles plus consistently with Swift?

I haven't had a 3000 mile week in over 6 months. Only a handful of 2500 mile weeks. I am reading you high productive guys running all over Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Oregon (Cabbage), all these areas I avoid like the plague as I think it is bad for business (snow, stopping to put chains on/off, risk of sitting for days while they clear the roads, lack of freight for so many trucks waiting etc)..

Or is it just that the system wants us to accept every load offer that comes across and the computer will keep us running more?