Trip planning

A) your examples have to do with WEATHER - not the HOS, which is what is under discussion.

B) if I was the boss if your first example two people would have been fired - your supervisor for being an idiot and you for kowtowing to an idiot.

If I am approaching Chicago at 1700, with 3 left on my 14, and I have 400 miles to go I will shut it down early and get up early. It will be possible to deliver 1 hour earlier, I will have 1 more hour on my 70, but 2-3 less on the 14.

In the scenario we are talking about there is little upside to pushing on but there is massive risk. I'm out here trying to maximize my earning potential. Sometimes that means taking more risk than I would like, but there better be a nice upside.

 

This is a good thing.

 

What we have here is ELOGS vs Paper.

 

yes it is..while you have to fight traffic, run in all sorts of weather, sit on the side of the road broke down, i am sitting in my recliner, enjoying life

 

Driver planned and executed. If he can do that day in and day out, I would be satisfied as the employer.

 

415 miles in 7 hours? Definately not a mega company truck. (forgive me for getting here late to comment) I would have checked a map (to find a rest area) and burned that extra 3 hours. Getting you at least 150 miles closer to your destination with a result of 265 miles left. Then its a little over 5 hours to get there and if anything you could catch a nap at the receiver on duty or pretrip the next load (presuming your a company driver).

Granted your load is already delivered now. So anything said now is water under the bridge

 

Amen. I was on a six truck shipment of drill pipe with appointments at a drilling rig. The guy that had the heavyweight, which had to get unloaded first, was late. He elected to run through Fort Worth during rush hour and stop and crawl. The rest of us were on time, stopping short and boogying on through in the wee hours. Often stopping short is the only way to be on time.

Here's hoping the FMCSA changes the rules of HOS to make more sense and reduce truck traffic during rush hour. Get rid of the ###### ####ing ####ty 14 hour rule and the 30 minute break.

 

As anyone actually in the business would be,

But if he was in stop and go traffic, where he would have only gained 60 or 70 miles in that 3 hours, it would put his destination out of range for his appointment.

 

Bottom line is the driver did the job.

Could it have gone better, yep, could it have gone way wrong, sure. Did the right thing, worked it out and maybe learned a few things. All good