100,000 miles first year for a rookie. Reality?

striker: Where are you located to be running over 100,000 miles and home most nights if you don't mind me asking?

 

In his own mind?

 

I'm sitting at 128K and have a couple more weeks to go until I've been driving tractor/trailer for 1 year. (drove straight trucks in the oilfield before that). This has been done with A LOT of days off compared to most people. I took 3 straight weeks off in the summer to go camping and whitewater rafting. When my girlfriend puts me through the ringer I ask the dispatcher for a little more than my regular 2 days off and he'll give me 3 or 4 days off. I even took a week and a half off for what might've been swine flu. (before the outbreak became more widely known).

If I didn't take those days off I could've easily broken 140K. Keep in mind I'm a Canadian driver that doesn't do any local runs. I load in Canada, run to the states and unload, and then drive to a reload that takes me back to Canada. Lots of miles between loading/unloading

 

100k a year is just under averaging 2,000 mi a week. i would think you SHOULD get 100k a year your first year easy.

i agree with the poster saying 'wrong turns' etc., and you end up driving way more. LOL

 

Remember----130K miles per year doesn't count if
50K were out of route.. Bwhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

They weren't out of route, they were explorations.

 

Funny, is that like saying. "I know I can get there going this way. Oops, maybe not".

 

He's not stuck, he used to be a furniture mover and knows sometimes you have to angle things through tight spaces

 

I just finished my first month out with my trainer and we did 20,000 miles in October. Multiply that times 12 and you get 240,000 miles in one year. Completely doable.

 

Hey Will,
Congratulations and continued success. Please keep us newbies posted as to your progress!
ONGB