In good weather and a 70 mph truck on interstate, especially i15 or i80 , i can put down 700+ miles out west in about 10.5 hrs. And thats running 80k .
4510 miles in a single week on ELOGS??
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Dang man 806 on elogs , that has to be a recordbryan21384 and SIMON7 Thank this.
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07 01 2018. ..10:58...drive time
806.3 miles.....and wanted more.
Don't look at on duties....I do my inspections.D.Tibbitt Thanks this. -
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I can't hardly drive a 70 truck I'm 61 yrs old and I find myself trying to push the accellerater through the floor for 11 hrs straight.....my adrenaline and energy feeds off mileage and speed and longhauls....give me a C2C run and I start chompin at the bit like a race horse wanting out of the gate....
Wanting to top my best C2C....of 42.97 hrs legal.
Put me on regional circular midwest runs....and you find your truck parked in my driveway my resignation in your email....because I couldn't take the boredom any longer....allergic to detention and daily lives....can't do reefer.....D.Tibbitt Thanks this. -
I hear that. U running box? Or flat or tank?SIMON7 Thanks this.
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53 dry..van.otr all 48....hazmat/tnkr X endorsed....but don't pull tank to old to want to injure myself on a flatbed.... pulled reefer awhile and could never rest with the noise....or hear alarm with earplugs....
Have dba llc...but no truck no authority have a big $ saved to buy truck about one more year....about 75K....or have two house....only need the paid off one on 50 acres timbered ridge....dead end dirt road....
City house worth about 115K don't need or want....don't. Like city life even though good small crime free city of 15K people. ...
Like hunting fishing outdoors....grew up on Ozark rivers....have monster buck scratching at spring black panther bobcat on land.
And by the way the Giant North American Imperial Woodpecker that nobody but me has video and pictures of.....are not extinct....as once believed.
Want to get completely off grid.
Cave on land needs tunnelled out more.
Spring fed well....purest water you ever tasted....90 ft deep only....10 gpm up on elevated ridge....can see for almost 50 mile from fire tower in giant pines.
Black King snake big around as your arm....25 ft long....12 footers raise up off the ground look you right in the eye.
Giant owls smack you on top the head with wing....
Where the red fern grows....
Mixed red and blackjack oaks hickories....giant stands of pine...
Dogwoods....Cardinals....
150 ft deep holler ravine runs for thirty miles to the lake spring fed creek in the bottom.
You can hear God speaking....
Stars so bright you have to draw the shades at night so it doesnt seem like you left the light on....
When lightning strikes down in the holler bottom the earth shakes and it sounds like the hands of God clapping.
City house 1500 sq ft full basement don't need or want almost paid off.
Get my own truck and build me a metal barn in my woods....
30 miles from nearest Walmart.
Nice and quiet.....neighbors have all got bigger land pieces than me.
Indians own a half mile to my west.
Survivalists heavily armed ....a viet nam vet....a crazy diesel tractor mechanic....
My land abstract is two inches thick Indian allotment land.
You can't get electricity there unless your neighbor signs off on it to extend from their land....Im the last pole on the line....660 ft of road frontage running 5/8 of a mile deep.5 mile of dirt road to get out to pavement. -
Well I looked at it like 1200 loaded miles. If you had to do a decent deadhead, which often I do, then they may schedule an extra day; but no I dont work Prime. Lol, you are right, 4000 per week ain't impossible, just rare for me these days. Hell rare for the majority of drivers out here.
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