Definition of "running hard"?

a shipper who shall stay nameless before they got their own day cabs use to contract out 10-15 trailer moves a day from one DC to the next. Maybe 1/4-1/2 mile away. Paid good too back in the day. $250 per trailer. That was fun to do. Not many miles but lots of jumping out and running around. They payed good but more physical. Imagine 15x250 with 10 miles driven at max. Ahh the days when you could brag about $300 a mile rates you would get.

 

St. Louis to city of industry in 2 days and unload reload Wednesday and back home in St. Louis by Friday for weekend. Roughly 3700 miles in 5 days.
leave Omaha on Sunday deliver in Oakland CA, Tuesday morning before day break 1652 miles, Bounce to Madeira , CA reload and head to Denver, drop and hook and back in Omaha on Friday morning return leg
2200 miles. Did that run for 10 years pulling pork to the port. Hard on the driver and the truck. Set cruise at 72 and let it eat the miles. 10 and roll, 10 and roll no stops except fuel and 30. That was on e logs
That’s running hard

 

It’s a term the cheap ###### use because they don’t make enough money to be able to stop the truck or they go bankrupt, Miles don’t impress me, money does. Pay me my money so I can go home.

And not every type of trucking has appointment times to adhere too

 

If I’m cruising at a high rate of fuel consumption and I notice the guy I’m passing is watching porn on a laptop is he running hard?

 

Or, stopping on an on ramp to take a nap, put your head on the wheel for a quick 30, wake up and start jamming the brakes when you see the tail lights of the trailer you parked behind.

 

Really???? Your a ###hat
I can't call you what I want to call you on here cause time I called a F...tard what I'd like to call you I got in trouble here..
You just stick to your door slamming buttercup milk runs that are making you filthy rich and stay the F out of the left lane when you see me coming

 

And this scenario is why logging in the old days without the stupid 14 hr. rule seemed safer to me. Sometime in the middle of the afternoon I would always get drowsy. A quick 20 minute to an hour nap would allow me to run past midnight, get a good 7 or 8 hour sleep, and get up and go again.

Times have changed.

 

Thursday afternoon, leave the yard in central FL, head south, load the wagon, run to the northern part of the TX panhandle, wash the trailer, go to Roswell or Artesia, NM, load hay, head to Ocala , Fl, unload, go back to the yard. Be home Tuesday night or Wed morning. If I remember right, the route was about 36-3700 miles. About the 4th or 5th week of this I was tired.

 

What do I slam when I’m hooked to my flatbed? And The gate on my new dump doesn’t really slam but can I still get credit for it?