Advice on Hours and how to use them

*puts on coffee, fires up popcorn maker, settles into easy chair*

 

I'll take some popcorn. Got White cheddar cheese topping that makes it super yummy. A bit late for coffee, so I'll just make me some "popcorn juice" as my daughter calls it. I, personally, call in lemonade. I guess that what I get for only making lemonade when eating popcorn.

 

It's been MANY moons since I've been OTR, so not sure how much help I'll be, but my preference is and always was, nights and early mornings. Then again, it's all dependent upon what you are hauling (delivery / time sensitive), whom you are hauling for, (for instance, I've heard SNI won't let you do a split sleeper, which sux because it was very helpful to me back in my OTR days,) and lastly ... many guys on here successfully run on recaps, tbh. Works.
One in particular, I recall, @bzinger mentioned he mostly does recaps.

As for the intricasies of all the above, it's not a canned answer, not 'one size fits all' (or even MOST.) Assuming you'll be going with a Mega for starters, bounce around some of those guys' threads, and see how they do it. I'm trying to recall who works for whom, but it eludes me atm.

@Broke Down 69 ... @tucker ... @scottied67 ... any suggestions for the guy? (Trying to tag a few guys that can be helpful without being cynical... hopefully!)

If you tell us whom you may be running for (if you said it elsewhere, I missed it....) your mileage may vary.

Best of luck to you, though. It's kind of a bit of math and physics combined, IMHO.

 

How long since you were OTR?

Personally I'm not a big fan of morning and am quite happy to start late and run until 01:00 - 02:00.

I figure you either want to start really early or run pretty late if you're going to be in areas where parking fills up quickly. Either be ahead of the crowd to get a parking spot or get in once the really early birds are starting to head out.

Reset or not is preference and is often dictated by the loads. I'm a regional, reset at home weekly but if I was out for weeks or months at a time I think I would try the <= 8.75 hours a day to see how it worked out.

 

I am thinking at 1400 miles a week I would just run 200 miles a day and never run out of hours

 

I also have a fresh batch of kettle corn, If'n you might be interested...and while you got the lemonade out, lemme grab my flask of Grey Goose...