Average miles a week on paper?

160,000 miles a year pre elog 165,000 with elog but less stress.. our shippers and customers know we’re on elog and can’t cover for them anymore ..

 

Who knows?

It took two or three logs to make it legal.

Seriously 3000 a week solo twice that team in 6 days and change when FFE put us on the LA CA to Avenel NJ and back asap. The one liability was 63 mph truck. We had a load that was potentially 10 minutes late leaving Avenel and by skipping that one fuel stop (We fueled at Holbrook AZ which was around 2100 or a little more from Jersey and around 600 or so from Holbrook to LA, CA. We managed to make it 4 minutes early as a team. With a 72 mph Presidents Truck would have been around oh... one hour early. We both drove about 210,000 after we got that one truck as a virgin at 16 miles on the Odo. I believe we turned it in with original brakes, trans, rear ends, drums, engine, etc. We went through alternators, a couple of steer tires due to white wall failure and so forth.

We bought a full suit of 10 tires each october prior to winter. Yoko premiums on the front and Bridge or michs premium on the drives. No emissions in those days.

Back to the logs. One log for me, one log for the spouse. =) You must have thought we were a outlaw team huh? ///TEASE...

 

I work for a fortune 200?
It's good they don't depend on the transportation division to make money.
Been on elogs over 10 yrs now.
I measure by earnings.
One day may be 30 miles and next 600.
Over 100K last 10 yrs.

 

For me it's wasn't so much about being a cowboy as much as it was like I was losing a freedom to do my job.
I did what I had to do with loose leaf, match fuel times and log from there.
I used to drive 65 mph, stop when I want for how long I want. Truck was averaging 7.5 to 8.0 mpg. Now I drive 70 plus all day long, I stop once a day, the truck is down to 6.5 to 6.8 mpg.
The bears had to work to figure your book out, calculator and basic math skills. Now they cheat and plug us into a computer and let AI figire it out a write a citation from there.(Cheaters)

 

Used to love those long overnight runs. Coops closed or scale master half asleep, bears not in the mood to get out of the patrol car, no four wheelers to speak of. Just miles and miles and miles and miles. Toss a log book page out the window occasionally. Pay cash for fuel and get a hand written receipt dated a day earlier. Write your own BOL's.

 

On a flatbed, if I drove 48 states there some 4000 mile weeks, but that was because of coast to coast runs. There some 2500 mile weeks, there some 3000 mile weeks. Honestly, I don't see that much of a difference between running on paper or elog. It takes time to make runs regardless of what it is. If you run dry van or reefer, it didn't always matter about logging systems as so many places are strict about appointments. When I was on flatbed, runs that took 2 days would take only one, but the receiver had to be willing to take it early. Sometimes that was the case in dry van. Reefers? Forget about it

 

I also don't think it has as much to do with logging system as it does load planning.

 

I plead the 5th.

 

My days at Cal Inland in the 80s were epic running St Paul to LA
I was lucky but it did age me a lot faster than my brothers , all my buddies call me old man now.

 

Thats what im sayin. Im on % of rate and push for good $/mi, never long miles.

550 a day is a lot for me. East coast only. From one traffic jam to the next.