May trucking

Lurchings,

What type of truck did you get? Also, how are your miles?

Hunter

 

Does May allow 1500 watt inverters, refrigerators and microwave ovens in their trucks.

 

Sorry, Brooks- you guys put me here in this heat - you get to deal with the idling expense.

Without a idle override at May they will deduct anything over 30% from your check.

haul a load from Sacramento to Spokane. Got dispatch Wednesday afternoon. Delivery appt was Friday,05:00. I sent back immediately that 05:00 was not doable, but that 13:00 was


Why could you not do it? 823miles between wed afternoon and Friday morning? Its a 16hr drive and if you did not start even till midnight on wed you would still have plenty of time. midnight till 11-12noon 8 hour break and then 8pm till 2 0r 3 and a 2 hour break and delivery at 0500 on Friday.

4 DAYS, THAT BLOW'S.
logistics/csr need to get it together, hope you get layover!

Why? he told them he could not do a run that I and many May drivers have done before many times with plenty of time to spare . Don't tell May you can't run a legal load .They will sit you and may not pay any layover since you are under a load not waiting for one.

OTR companies don't like to hear what you can't do, but what you can do.
You will do lots of sitting if you can't make it happen. Good luck

 

How do you get a truck to average 55 mph in a 55 mph state?

 

How do you get a truck to average 55 mph in a 55 mph state?

you take the number of miles you will travel through the state and divide it by 55.

 

I already know that.

But when you log it as you drive it, which is required by the law, you cannot average 55 in a 55 mph state. Some drivers actually do run their log books as reflecting how they drive. Alot of the time, in a 65 mph state, I only show 53 mph. It can be the result of traffic backups and all. It does affect the driving distance.

 

But when you log it as you drive it, which is required by the law, you cannot average 55 in a 55 mph state. Some drivers actually do run their log books as reflecting how they drive. Alot of the time, in a 65 mph state, I only show 53 mph. It can be the result of traffic backups and all. It does affect the driving distance.

When I drove OTR I would take the miles the load payed, lets say 1150 miles from LA to Seattle, and divide it by the speed limit in Ca,Or,Wa. that would give me my hours for the trip, and that was what I logged. I did that everywhere I went since I started driving back in the beginning of the 90's and have never heard a peep from any company or the DOT about violating the law.

Your company and the DOT know that every driver violates the law when logging and like speeding it is more about revenue then safety. If your making the company money and the DOT gets a blank DMV report at the scale house. Believe me you are not a driver on their radar screen.

How many companies give out awards and money for logging to the letter of the law versus being a top producers? I haven't worked for any company that rewarded their drivers for driving less miles and being a pain in the butt to load plan.

If you are going to log it as you do it then remember that off duty is being away from the truck not engaged in company business. On duty is anytime not in the sleeper or driving. Most so called legal drivers violate the law in those areas on a routine basis.

 

I am glad you are sure of what my company knows.

I have talked to many DOT and yes they know of some of those doing it. I had a level 1 and the officer was double checking the time on the book to the miles. He was amazed at mine since they reflected the actual driving time since I started 6 hours previously. Yes, it was also my last stop and they were curious about that as well.

I am well aware of the logging rules. During my time away from the truck, I was a DOT safety person for a company. I dealt alot with FMCSA because of the drivers and their logbook errors prior to my arriving.

Just don't assume all drivers are going to do it the way you do. Many of them out here strive to be legal at all times.

There are many things in your truck that can trace where and when you were somewhere.

 

I was trained to do it like bigblue too I was told by my trainer that if I wanted to make money.
You will have to play with the books a little if you did not play a little then you will be sitting alot because you will run out of hours alot quicker.

If we would roll through the scale the of course we would allways log that.
We would not be able to play with the times prior to the scale.
But that is why when we seen the scales closed the prepass would be under one of our legs so it did not register as us being in that area at that time.

ps our log books was legal at all times too.
Do you know were we slept it may say one thing but we may be some were else.
I logged by the miles which is the same as logging by how long it will take to get there.

11x65=715
11x60=660
11x55=605

A goverened 65 mph truck can adverage 65 mph if you go 70 mph down hills. hahaha