Can this be done on time

This load is totally do-able. A savvy driver will simply split break it so they are available for a re-load the next morning. If you want to arrive to final out of hours and do a 10 outside the gate, chances are pretty good you won't get re-loaded til the next morning, meaning a wasted day.

Learn how to split break and learn how to be available during times when shippers are open and learn to drive all night when receivers are asleep.

 

So mean.

 

You would be surprised at some of the places ive parked at.

I once scooted onto a weed grown airport runway that no one uses with crumbling pavement. Spent the night there. I did check to make sure there was a FAA mandated X at the edge of the runway. It was just that and a big field. All run down. Nature was taking it over. You could park a thousand trucks there.

By morning I had 4 neighbors sleeping nearby there. I think by the time word gets out there will be a thousand sleeping there.

 

Think about if you did not have hometime on aFriday though. So you roll into the customer Friday morning and have to do a 10, shippers might be closed all weekend and if Monday is a holiday, that 10 hour break may cost you 4 days downtime. Better to learn how to split break and make loads like this work.

 

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The load is only do-able if certain conditions are met. By do-able I mean, it will make you money without getting you in more trouble then it's worth.

1) A legit split is doable, if and only if the shipper can get his ### in gear and load that trailer under 1 hour. Possible, but fat chance of that unless you know the shipper.

2) If on paper, you can fudge a few minutes here and there to make a split look legit.

3) If the shipper allows you to park there for 8 hours while he loads.

4) If the consignee allows you to park for 8 or 10.

5) If on elogs and have PC that you company does not regularly check.

That is a whole lot of ifs, and all those ifs dispatch could have covered for you before dumping this load on you. But they won't because it is a little work, and they rely on drivers that will take the heat for their bad decisions.

Generally not. Dispatch is just dumping a problem and collecting a reward (money) for someone elses work. This load has been ripening up on some broker's computer and is only taken by the OP's company because no one else wants it due to load and unload times pulled out of someone's ###. The price for moving it has gone up is the only reason dispatch is interested in it.

In dispatches mind, a load succeeds because of them and fails because of the driver. Any hero maneuvers with the log book go unrecognized because most in the dispatch office now days cannot trip plan, as evidence by this load. You will not be rewarded for going the extra mile, because that extra mile is not recognized. Instead after this load you will sit out an extra day because after the unload, and your 10, their will be no time for dispatch to find another.

 

Your 14?

You do mean your 11, because your 14 won't run out before your 11 does.

 

Well what if you have 82 hours in a week?