SWIFT Solo Drivers What's Your Typical Day?

I drive team with my best friend, but he got sick and had to stay off the truck for rwo weeks. Rather than sit home, I went out for 10 days on a solo trip. I planned my daily runs at a minimum of 450 per day (depending on the region because it's easier to make miles in some places), and a maximum of 600. I averaged 519 or 529 if I remember correctly over the trip.

I would start out and drive three hours before I took a break (unless I had to stop), then I would stop and get off for fifteen minutes, brew a pot of coffee and walk around for a while. I'd get back on, drive another three hours and do my 30, heat up something in the microwave and brew a pot of coffee and walk around a bit. Drive another two to three hours and look for a place to shut her down.

I generally got over the 500 mile mark on that formula without getting beat up, fatigued, or burnt out.

I actually liked driving solo simply because I could pick my spots to stop, shower, sleep, and relax rather than keeping the wheels turning on 10 hour turns.

If I hadn't made a one year commitment to my friend, I would probably be solo right now.

 

Hello Moosetek, you seem like fairly casual driver, take your miles as they come, what hobbies do you have on your down time ?

 

I have not had a hobby in many, many years.
Or, you could say that my job is my hobby and in my down time I am just relaxing and doing nothing of note.

I no longer have any interest in staying busy all the time.

 

We have to get you into something Moose. Steve rode and worked on Motorcycles. Iron Butts, long solo trips, feats of endurance and more farkeling his motorcycles. I guess OTR is like long solo bike trips, time to think, great vistas, new places. He'd come home tired though and not really wanting to go back out alone. We bought a jeep for our eldest and Steve fell in love. So now if he isn't tinkering in the garage making the jeep bigger, taller or whatnot we are out driving trails and planning camping trips to remote locations. Do you like to fish? That is a whole bunch of Hobby that is really sitting around doing nothing. I love to decorate and think about sex both of which annoy my husband. And Yes I can decorate a truck interior, not that Steve would ever let me.

 

Nope, don't like to fish.
Not really interested in much these days.