Recaps, 34 hr reset and the 70 hour limit?

Care to expand on your math?

My first load today is going to pay me $45 and take less than 2 hours total, only 1 off the 70.

Last fall I did 5 short haul deliveries - burned 3 hours off the 70, 7 in total, drove a total of 40 miles, made $220. I then knocked out 250 miles for and additional $125. In total $345 for 9 hours or less off the 70. Compare that to a 600 mile, 10 hour day where I would have made $300.

In 7 days I can do 3,000 miles running recaps. I can also run 3,000 in 6 days take a restart and be in the same spot - if I have open appointment times.

 

Simple multiplication......

 

3,000 at .50 cpm = $1500

To make $1,500 at 2200 miles would be 69 cpm, for $1,600 it would be 72 cpm. Not sure how you got all the way to $2.00 a mile.

 

Back to the thread, to the Original poster, It will all sort it self out when you start going down the road. The only real reason I sort of preplan is to have a target for the day, helps me. I run Houston and back to SoCal right now, I want to be in the San Antonio area by the end of my second driving shift, sometimes it happens and sometimes %$#$ happens, just like targets in a toilet, sometimes it matter sometimes it don't. What does matter is stay safe, period. The rest is the same at the end of the day,

 

I guess your math is way different then normal math...

 

My math is the best kind of math there is... learned it from Foghorn Leghorn.

143 - 3=14
Two half nothin' is a whole nothin'. That's Math-o-mathics son
… look at me when I'm talkin' to you, boy

 

Now wait a blooming minute, where are you getting that 3 at? 143- 3 does not = 14 it = 5

 

The "running 0600 -2000" isn't miles, it's time of day. To run the 86 hours in 8 days it generallt means running on your ten and minimizing breaks.