Trip planning question

Is this a multiple guess question or one that allows an explanation? If multiple guess then they should have given you all you need to answer the question their way.

If it is a written question then show all your work and defend why you did it the way you did it.

 

You are almost never, ever going to be able to drive up to the 11 hour mark exactly anyway. You have to have somewhere to park. There is not a truck stop or pickle park every mile.

 

392.7(a) What manual did you get that idea from?

 

What they should be teaching you is to trip plan for the real world. Chances are if you get out of school you will first be working for a mega with trucks governed at 62mph. While it is possible to average 60mph in a 62mph truck, it is unlikely. If you count on averaging 60mph and don't account for things such as loading, security checks, fueling, mt searches, scaling, load reworks, DOT scales, pre-trips, post-trips, piss breaks, traffic, weather, and everything else that happens in the real world, your apt. to make bad choices in load selection and several service failures.

 

Once you figure about how many miles a day you can make (less across the hilly parts, more across the flaty parts) you now need to go back over the route, figuring about what time you'll be hitting major metro areas.

 

Good comedy drivers. Would read again.

 

you left out time zone changes

 

used to run woodland cA TO mills junction ut (76 truck stop) 664 miles in 12 hours with a lunch and fuel.

Also ran SFO to Denver in 22.5 hours DT. 1254 mi