Trip Planning

I figured you were a clean slate, hence the reason for my post. But MANY were clean slates, but picked up terrible habits. Speeding through construction zones, tailgating, lewd behavior, impatient, self centered, oblivious to their surroundings, disagreeable, STUPID, fair weathered, negative charged, kool aid drinking and entitled.

Where do you think they learned such bad habits?

 

For you week or a month 25mph is the overall average for all on duty, and all other hours combined.

 

Rolls of papper in a van.

 

Yep, a bit behind schedule is better than way behind schedule in the ditch or filling out a damage report. Things will come up that you didn't expect, (slow traffic,blown tire, bad weather etc.) that put you behind schedule. Don't ever let that make you try to rush. The flip side of that is don't sit in the truck stop for a few extra hours thinking you have enough time because that's when you will run into those unexpected issues.

As you get more seat time the truck will get a bit smaller and the road a bit bigger.

4 hours is a good stretch. It's a good idea to get in a habit of stopping every 2 or 3 hours to stretch your legs, check your tires, load etc.

 

Average around 11 500 a month divided by 720 hours in 30 days so it's more like 16mph. Not sure what that has to do with anything though. Average speed while driving is what I was referring to. meh

 

You will hear them say, “I WAS TAUGHT TO DO THIS.”

And unfortunately, once the habit is locked in, it’s really hard to change.

 

More like monkey see, monkey do mixed with complacency. Short sighted in more ways than one.

Always keep the big picture in mind. Getting through the next week/month/year/decade without anything bad happening is more important than getting where you're going a few minutes earlier today. Tailgating, rushing though construction zones, not being courteous to other drivers etc. will bite you eventually.

 

If its a paper load in rolls of newsprint. whatever trip planned you did out the window. Reduced to three things.

A dollar truck if you have one.

gallon of coffee. GOOD stiff coffee. Stand up a dead man.

4 packs of smokes. Come morning you are going to need some and no time to stop.