Besides driving, driving related, sleeping and eating time how much time do you have

This is the T/A Knoxville across from the Petro. I was staying at the Petro two weekends ago, unwillingly, and walked in Sunday morning to get my box of bacon and potatoes. I ask the lady at the store for the remote to the TV in the lounge, and she says, " We have gospel in the lounge until 11:00 AM. Then we watch movies, we don't watch TV here."
I said, " Well Lord Jesus Christ have mercy cause i'm going to gather with the heathen."
So I fired up Blackie and moved across the street and gathered with the heathen for bar-b-q and football.
About 15 minutes after the game started, the chaplain came in, sat down, and spent the day with us.
This about as good as spot you will ever find to be posted up at.

 

Ummm, what are they doing with the peanuts that requires a warning sign?. Just how un-godly are these heathens?.

 

Probably using them as suppositories

 

A warning so some peanut allergy freak doesn't walk in and drop dead

 

I am sure I would be allergic to the use that SGIT was suggesting.

 

There is very little time for more than eating, sleeping, doing laundry once a week and a shower every couple of days if you're running hard. Basically a 34 is your one and only downtime, so plan accordingly. If you run hard recap, you take a 34 every 2 weeks or so with one, maybe two light driving days. I'm sitting at a a casino now, relaxing. That's fairly unusual. Only doing it because if the holiday slowdown. 10 hours from shutdown to pretrip. An hour to eat, 8 to sleep and one to wake up, make coffee and get it together are my normal 7-day a week schedule. Relaxation is for Hometime or the odd break in schedule/hours. Fine by me. 2000 miles from home, I'd rather be making money than touristing.

 

How many miles do you run a week and how fast is your truck?

 

There isn't much time to goof off. Drive 11 hours, take a 10 hour break (or do 8/2) trust me, 10 hours off isn't enough. Now if you do lots of unloading/loading in van/reefer, you get some time off. Flatbed/tanker /bulk, nope because the drivers is usually doing the loading unloading part or watching the hose or watching the loader

 

As someone mentioned, there's more to it than just driving.

Loading/unloading/fueling/pre trip/breaks all make up part of the 14 hour window.

Some will spend as little time as possible doing anything other than driving, get their shift done, take 10 off and start again. There's no such thing as a day as far as your hours of service and concerned. So, if it was just driviing and sleeping you could drive 14 hours in a 24 hour period. That makes for a pretty messed up sleep schedule I would imagine.

I like to start at about the same time each day so I often end up with my 10 hour break being 11 or more when in the US.

Take out meals, sleeping, showering, keeping the truck clean, a daily phone call to the wife and a bit of paperwork and there's not much time left.