Situation:
I have 11 hours on my 70. Recap doesn't start till Tuesday morning. Today is saturday.
Pickup Customer is 6 hours away. Delivery is 600 miles from the customer.
Plan A
Drive tomorrow, burn 6 hours but stay at the customer overnight(sunday) load up Monday with only 5 hours on my 70. Burn 5 hours Monday and recap Tuesday morning.
Plan B
Do a reset now. Run Monday morning, reach the customer, load up and probably will have 4 hours left on my 14.
Now that I had type it out and think, I might do a reset just to have the hours. But I'm open to any comments on what would u do.
Side note, if I do a reset, I might get sent to canada and I hate canada.
Should I reset or not?
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by w.h.o, Jun 18, 2016.
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Canada is nice this time of the year
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I'd just reset if time allows.
And by the way, Canada don't like you too much, either!
Kidding!Highway Sailor Thanks this. -
Well I meant taking a load to canada, not canada as a whole lol. I piss off this lady guard and she recognize me everytime I see her. She scare me
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I would wait because run to get as close as you can so if something throws you off.
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I would run 6 then reset then pick up, but I don't know what your del time is. I guess 34 at shipper if del is Monday or 34 with a place to eat if del is tue. Any movie theaters within those 6 hours? I heard the conjuring was good. That's what I'd do with the flexibility you have on this load.
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Pick up Monday 0900
Del wed 1000
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There two schools of thought....burn your 11/14 clock and do a restart when time runs out or manage your runs to limit on-duty to 8.75 hours per day ( average ) and "Never" run out of time.....
austinmike Thanks this. -
I tried running 8.75 hours before and it never work out. Either I get behind on appointments or get runs that won't make it there in 8 hours. All my loads are strict time schedule. There's only 1 crane and 1 set of crane personals. 1 dock, 1 truck at a time, either on time or don't bother showing up.
My drive time and on duty time are about 1 hour apart, from unloading, loading and pretrips, so I didn't have any spare time this week.
I don't like to run my clock down just in case I need those few hours to get home or get somewhere safe. Doing a reset at a customer is not ideal.
To be honest I wish they got rid of the 70 rule or at least extend it. Why can someone work 12 hours a day everyday in an office but we are only allow 70 in 8? Kinda like slowing down freight...and in America, nobody like to wait around for their stuffDustyRoad Thanks this. -
Two days to get to a pick up 6 hours away and then 2 days to a delivery 600 miles from there. Best course of action would be to start filling out applications in all this spare time you have..
I'd do the reset.
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