Maverick drivers!! Whats your average miles per week?

Gonna be about 2,000 for me this week, provided I can get loaded in the morning and make 2 drops and the final by Friday before the dealer in Bismark closes.

Edit: I just realized, I can probably deliver Saturday until noon...but if I do that I won't get weekend pay.

 

I am a short haul specialist, not by choice mind you. But that's all I've been doing for the past month or so. Here is how last week looked. MT / Loaded

6/3 141/465
6/4 104/403
6/5 54/395
6/6 112/262
6/7 28/315

What saved me last week is the fact that I ran on Sunday with a load I picked up on Friday, sat on it for 36 then ran 600 miles Sunday. With all these short loads and the 14 hour clock shutting me down every day I thought I had a poor week.

I was surprised yesterday when I got my pay stub and found that I had 2,905 paid miles 5 tarps and gross of $1,374.00. On top of that I was home on Friday afternoon and didn't have to leave out until Monday morning. Short hauls are tough but you can still make the miles if you run smart. Also, I never ran above 60 MPH the whole week.

Getting a lot of the same this week, Tuesdays load was 149/198 trapped lumber no doubt. Oh well, that's truckin' bubba.

 

Net $980.77

 

You are preaching to the choir with me Seawheeler....

 

This week is not gonna be a very stellar week tho....

 

I think you are in the micro haul division. You make more stops in one day then most of us make in a week.

 

Unload, drive like 40-100 miles, reload, drive 36 miles for instance, unload, drive back 36 miles, reload again, then "race" (at 58mph) to get as far as I can before the 14 is up. Not ALL of my days are like this, but the hardest of my days are like this, and maybe 7-10 of these each month. Oh, and I get $10 for tarp pay too LOL! (We get $20 Load pay on top of it tho- don't want to mislead anyone) I like the days where I only have to unload, drive to reload, reload, and then drive 400 miles to con and get empty then go to bed.

 

nc_rider seems to have the "Most stops in a week" category locked up LOL!

 

We do our fair share on this account, that's for sure! Also, that $10 to tarp is about $10 more than I get! And I tarped 3 loads last week. Two were with lumber tarps and one was 2 coils I picked up at Nucor that only needed 1 canvas and 1 steel!

 

no worries, soon you'll have a student to "help" you. Lol