1,000 miles per day on E-logs

I think you nailed it right on the head.

 

It wasn't necessarily directed towards you, you're post just made me think of all the company drivers (and a few O/Os), on here that think they know what's best for every operation.. My truck gets it's best fuel mileage at around 73 mph, now, wait for all the know it alls to come call me a liar...

 

To accomplish that feat you would have to have the magical truck that accelerates instantly to 68 mph when you go to line 3.For 10 years I did a 524 mile turn around in a 60 mph truck and if there was 1 hiccup(when we could only drive 10) I would run out of hours before getting home. The run was 523 miles of interstate.As I stated above,I run 650-700 mile runs consisting mostly running on I-95 (at 75 mph)and I do good to make 660 miles in 11 hours.My runs are always heavy out and mt back and since I always leave at 3:00am,I always make better time loaded than mt.Once again,you can't use regular math to figure speed per hour.It is definitely and algebra equation since you are constantly being held up and stopping for scales and back ups.

 

If the company owns the truck, you do as they say. That's their $140,000 investment. Plus the trailer/ insurance/etc. I think 62 mph is ridiculously slow, especially in the western states where it's 70-80 mph. I run a steady 65 mph, I let her cruise down the hills, never above 80, and I run 700+ in an 11 hour drive. Honestly, going faster burns through fuel and fatigues you just as much as 62 or those Prime trucks doing 55-58.

 

All the tires I have looked at have a 70mph speed rating.

 

Huh. Just like professional pilots... kinda.

Guess what? Airlines don't tell them "take this load to Omaha", they're told exactly how to fly it from take-off to approach; time, route, altitude, speed, turns.

Military pilots, most missions include same things.

Huh. Kinda like professional pilots...

But it's not the few. What is there to suggest trucks are operated mostly by professionals? CB chatter? Pitching fits at the coops? Dodging the regs? Dismissing what has been learned in the last 20 years about safe practices? The speeding and tailgating? The crashes? The piss bottles? The constant wailing and gnashing of teeth, the widespread victim mentality?

7 years? Dude. Buy a vowel.

 

I disagree. Maybe you're doing it wrong. Are you in compliance with traffic code 99.9% of the time, striving to maintain that minimum 7 second following distance? Try that, see if it isn't "difficult".

No, that's the way it can "feel", a lot of the time. If it feels that way all the time you're feeling something else. Like anything else, some days you got it, some days you don't.

By what criteria...?

By what criteria?

It can only be one or the other; part of trucking or a disruption. Here's a driving principle you'll never learn: As long as it takes is as long as it takes, and there isn't much if anything you can do about it. No one but you cares if your big boy pants get all wadded-up over what you obviously can't control.

You'd probably be a lot less tired if you weren't carrying that huge chip on your shoulder.

1. People are fallible, primarily concerned with their own best self-interest. That's everybody. 2. Truckers will submit to no authority, they'd rather remain "free" to be overregulated. Nobody's going to tell them what to do, and how to do it.

WAY ahead of ya.