Bottom line for the driver behind the wheel is that time is money. No matter the debate over whether or not your company will actually save fuel by reducing your top speed. What is really at stake here is that as a driver, if your travelling slower, then it will take you longer to get to your destination, and if you continue to drive legal on your log, then you just took a pay cut.
The only way to maintain your current earnings in a slower truck verses a faster truck, is to go over on your log. Yes they will tell you to better plan your pre-trip and leave earlier, but what no one in the "Office" will admit is that no matter when you actually start that 11 hours is still just 11 hours.
Realize this when they cut your truck back, times are tough and now your earning less.
70 mph vs 65 mph
Discussion in 'Trucks [ Eighteen Wheelers ]' started by The Breeze, Mar 9, 2008.
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Ahh Ahh Ahh
The 11th and 12th commandments- Thou shall drive no faster than 55;
and Thou SHALL stay in the right lane for the next 19 miles.
I do have to say- that is the BEST looking picture of the basin bridge I have seen yet! Was that taken on the west end, or the boat ramp at the 126mm?
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