Finding out miles driven and hours?

Is this so you can try and sue because you made less than minimum wage you figure?

 

Add them up, one day at a time...

 

Write down your starting odometer and your ending odometer readings. Subtract the starting odometer from your ending odometer to get your miles driven.

You have 3 clocks to manage your HOS with. Your 11 hr driving clock, 14 hr daily on duty clock and 70 hr weekly on duty clock.

When you start your day, you have 14 hrs to complete 11 hrs of driving. For example if you start at 0500, you need to be parked by 1900 regardless of how many hrs you drove. If you sit at a customer all day, oh well. You're still out of time by 1900. You can do 8-2 splits while at a customer, but don't worry about the split until you get the basics down.

If you start at 0500 and drive continuously, you're out of time by 1600.

Now let's figure your 70's.

Every bit of time you log throughout 7 days counts against your 70 hr clock. If you start at 0500 and your 70 hr clock has only 4 hrs left, then you need to shut down by 0900.

Grab a paper log book at a truck stop and practice using it. Ask your trainer if you have questions, which you will.

 

No, there isn't.

By the way, pay no mind to the Supertruckers who were born with a wheel in their hands. Some drivers conviently forget that they were once new too and asked the same questions.

 

Don't sweat the details. Make an approximation based on roughly how you ran for the bulk of the time. Never mind the "actual numbers". Or maybe you can better determing this by looking at your pay stub YTD mileage pay and extrapolating the numbers.

Anything that translates to roughly 80k to 120k miles per 12 months is perfectly acceptable on an application. I hope it's not the arithmetic that's throwing you.

 

In the future use a note pad everyday write down starting, ending, time, location etc. This information has been a help to me in the past as well.

 

Maybe the log department can provide you with all that info.If not them I would think someone at your company would know and then ask them to mail you a copy of your records.

 

When I turn in my trip reports I keep a copy for myself. This allows me to compare what I've actually done to what my pay stub shows. You can watch for inerrancies that way. Also, I have the mileage for each trip individually as well as overall starting & stopping miles for each trip report. You can use these to keep track of your overall miles.