A few noob questions?

If they don't...it's on YOU to tell them you don't have enough hours to legally and safely deliver the load.

Miles driven daily depends on traffic, speed, too many variables.

ALL loads are timed. Now, most have a delivery. Average time is going to depend on where said load is going.

 

Stop to use the bathroom? Huh......?

 

Each load at Schneider where i work is planned on a 50 mph dispatch and no shipper delays of course, based on the dispatch you have plenty of time provided you drive and don't run from Truck Stop to Truck Stop. A FM or Dispatcher or whatever they are called at different Trucking Companies will only run you in the ground if you let them. You as a driver control your log book and if they are making you run illegal you need to go else where. If everything goes as planned in a given day i drive 660 miles a day and still take an hour for supper. I take it at supper to give traffic time to die down. It all comes down to the lanes you run and at what times and how well you trip plan. i run a dedicated account so i do the same every week about 2700 miles and only spend 4 nights in the truck of course i run my ### off to make a round trip in 4 days. Time between loads depends on the load, how far the consignee ( or delivery ) is from the shipper. so its hard totell every load is different.

 

It just depends. My FM doesn't seem to realize I have HOS rules...LOL

 

A lot depends on the company. The problem at Roehl is that often they allow too much time. Great for a new driver, not so good for someone who has experience and wants to roll. I don't stop for lunch, I eat as I'm driving. I save the extra time for when I shut down at night.

 

Lunch? an hour for lunch? ...........

 

like i said i only take an hour at supper and thats when i avoid as much traffic as possible.

 

1) Loads at my company are planned with a average speed of no more than 28 mph for a solo driver and 45 mph for a team. If the load exceeds the mph boundary, refuse the load because you won't be able to run it legally.

2) It's the drivers choice to be ran to the ground as the driver makes the final call whether or not to accept the load assignment.

3) See reply #1.

It's all in your trip planning. The first thing you need to do is figure out the trip mph. To do this you take the trip mileage, and divide it by the number of hours you have between the pick-up appoitment time and the delivery appoitment time.

The 2nd thing you need to do is check to see if you have the hours on your 70 hour clock to run the load. To to this you take the trip mileage, and divide it by a planned average driving speed (50 mph is a good speed to use), then compare that number to your 70s.

The third thing you'll need to do is determine the amount of drive shifts it's going to take to get to the delivery. To do this you take the number of drive hours on the trip (the answer you get from figuring your 70s out) and divide it by 11.