Average day? What are your hours and schedule while trucking?

Depends on what type trucking you do. Reefer, tanker, dry van, flatbed are all different because the customers, shippers, receivers are different in what type freight they ship/receive.
Your Elogs will determine what hours you can work, drive, sleep. You'll learn that in orientation.
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Which company are you hiring on with?

 

What does "trailed" mean?
I did reefers OTR for 18 years and liked it just fine. If not, I wouldn't have done it for so long.

 

OP, by your 1st post I feel like you don't have a good grasp on HOS. Hopefully this product could help. HOS is the most misunderstood aspect of trucking IMHO.

To answer your original question. I don't believe an average day exists between trucking disciplines or even between drivers of the same company. You're given a pick up and a time a drop time. How YOU manage the in-between is just that and it could be way different that how I would manage it.

A little tongue in check gesture. Don't overthink it.

 

11 hours /driving day is Maximum. If you did that 7 days it’d be over. 70hours in 8 days. Guess recruiters don’t know HoS either.

oh sure it’s like military as in duty day starts at midnight. So yeah you could start then run 11. 10 hour break. Then drive 3 more technically that day.
Burn out central though.

 

Once you start you have to stop 14 hours later. You can drive for 11 hours. You need one 30 minute break. You can only drive 8 hours and then you need the 30 minute break. Normally you don't drive 11 hours. Since you need time to park, and you need to find a truck stop.

 

Then my advice, is stop right here. It's natural to be apprehensive on such a radical move, only 2 types of people actually succeed. The ones that have no other choice, or really wanted to be a truck driver. People like you that aren't entirely sure are almost bound to fail. I don't mean that in a nasty way, just the facts. 3/4 of all new drivers don't make it a year, and that only makes things worse. Do something you really like to do, life is too short to do otherwise.

 

There is no such thing really as a "typical day" because too much depends on your appointments and you will have to make a lot of decisions on how to manage your HOS. Generally speaking, you can either: run hard early in the week and take a 34 hour reset, or you can drive a bit less than 9 hours a day and always have time coming back. Which is better depends on the trip. In terms of which makes more money, that's pretty much a wash. If one was more productive your company wouldn't leave it up to you.

 

Revisiting your other post where you mentioned flatbed, the simple fact that your shippers and receivers are all basically MF 9-5 means you are basically free to work around that as you prefer.