34 hour resets vs recapping

Make it challenging. Load picks up in Bellingham WA, and going to Savannah,GA. Shipper is open from 0600-2000, M-F. Receiver is open 0700-1500, M-T. You’re in Seattle, and it’s 0700 Monday when you get dispatched.

 

Only problem that was not the question. The question was what was the max time you could drive. To maximize that 70 you must drive for 4 hours on that 7th day. Then take the 20 off. You still have the 8th day to finish the 34 and 10 hours to drive.

 

I guess that's one way of looking at it. If you can do more by taking the 7th day off vs. doing 4 hours on that day and completing the reset 14 hours later than you would have doesn't seem to me to be maximizing though.

If you want to talk about maximizing you would also need to consider that 11 hours is not a daily limit. Drive 11, with the required 30 minute break and your shift lasts 11.5 hours. Take 10 off and start driving. Each day you're starting 2.5 hours earlier than the previous one and blah blah blah.

But again, it doesn't need to be that complicated. With recap you cannot average more than 8.75 hours per day. Though you eliminated the need for line 4 somehow in the real world that doesn't work either so you'll never do a full 8.75 average driving hours with recap.

Run hard for 6 days, take the 7th off, rinse and repeat and in a setting where you don't have hours of downtime during the day it's simple to see that reset will get you a higher average of driving hours per day.

 

"The moon's orbit around Earth is elliptical. At perigee — its closest approach — the moon comes as close as 225,623 miles (363,104 kilometers). At apogee — the farthest away it gets — the moon is 252,088 miles (405,696 km) from Earth."


The moon is not a set distance from the earth, and that can make a huge difference when calculating how long it will take to get there, and by what system of hours you might use.
While running your hours out more quickly and taking a reset might get you a little farther per week, if the moons' orbit is closing with the earth you could end up traveling a longer distance. You could actually waste your driving hours by running yourself harder.

We could take it a bit further by saying that there is no 'stopping' in space. You can not just pull over and stop 'driving'. When you sign off duty you will still have the exact same velocity as when you stopped 'driving'.

I guess you could term 'driving time' as acceleration time, which would also require some 'driving' deceleration time as you approached the moon to match speeds.
Was that taken into account on that spreadsheet as well?


Personally, I do not do things that way.
I know how I like to run, and I base every load from that.
I do not care how much freight is out there. If I have a home time scheduled I will get there as close to that time as possible. And I am not going to run harder, for the most part, for a few extra miles per day.
My own comfort and safety is what I aim for, nothing else.

But then, money is not first and foremost with me.

 

You are taking something that was an answer to a whimsical question way to serious. I never ran that way.

 

Nah, just pointing out the obvious.

 

If what you're doing is working for YOU (as in you're on time and getting paid), then keep doing it.

 

Recap equals 70 hrs in 8 days.
reset equals 81 plus hrs in 8 days legally.
simple math.