Easy Trip Planning

You'd position yourself close as you can to the shipper. That means in Cheyenne, petro in Loveland or Denver terminal. You go to Cheyenne if you try to park anytime past 8pm. Each is at max a 1.3hr drive from greenly. Go to shipper and pray they load you in one hour. Scale of need be. As long as the truck can do 65 meaning it can average 55 in 2-3 hour stretches provided that the load is less than 35k. Burn 10 hours driving end the day 1 at 4am with 500 miles done at least. You've just gone up I-70. Maybe you make it to Richfield, Salina, one of the many rest areas (No trucks sign be ######) or maybe your in green river cause you like to sleep. You have to make it to Richfield, if you didn't your going to be late. Start driving at 2:20pm Sunday. Your gonna need to speed thru Cali 60mph at least. Gotta keep that average mph up. End that day around 2am at the final Monday morning if they let you park there. Or park elsewhere earlier (Hesperia) and pull a 8 hour break knowing that the Cali consignee is going to loaf around unloading your or take a lunch break.

You shouldn't be attempting a load like this is a SWIFT truck. Or any sub 65mph truck. I wouldn't take this load because; it's going to Cali, the pu and del time and in order to pull off perfect 10 hour breaks you gonna have to sacrifice something in order to get rest. S^3 is the most important thing out here.

 

The point was someone saying they would "never" park an hour away from the receiver because it burns up his driving clock. I gave that run as an example. Besides the weight, Eisenhower, and Vale, you have Sunday traffic on I-15 westbound. No question you're parking more than an hour away from the receiver, if you try to run that traffic, you'll burn your clock and miss the appointment.

I've ran into many situations and cities where there wasnt a choice because of schedule and traffic.

 

When you did the run were you on time? I thought my planning was close enough.

 

Yeah. I was on time both times. The first just barely. The second I knew what to expect and planned it much better plus I was in my prostar.. no governor, more power, and a lot better gearing than the Cassie I was driving the first time.

Btw.. the load is beef out of jbs. Both times I scaled out just under 80k.

 

here im planning on a 65mph truck and your blowing doors off. What places did you did you park? I'm curious on how a trip like this actually unfolds.

 

Ok. Let's use the Dave method of trip planning.
The Dave method involves training your DM to give you good runs.
Dave noticed very early on in his driving career, if you can navigate & be on time, every time, especially on wtf F UP runs, then you will be consistently punished with them.
Dave noticed the driver that can't navigate from the truck stop back to the interstate, consistently ran across 40 and 10, because that's all the driver is capable of.
So using the Dave method, simply accept all loads, and run them until you are out of hours at the nearest nice truck stop, then tell DM you need repower.
Once DM experiences enough pain, he will learn to give you the no brainer runs.
DM cannot just leave you, so be not afraid, he has a boss too, and your truck needs to stay moving.

 

I plan way ahead and rarely sit.. I'd rather get there and get unloaded early which works 70% of the time...
Grab another load and be 700 miles the other direction by the time you get done...

I guess I do okay running 4K miles a week on Elogs...

 

First time I got caught big time in sunday afternoon traffic just south of vegas. Barely made Whiskey Petes at the Cali line. Rolled into the receiver with minutes to spare.

Second time I was able to almost hit St George UT early am Sunday. Rolled into Colton late Sunday afternoon. Parked on the street outside Lineage. Did an 8 and rolled at 5:30ish.... worth blowing the 14 to avoid the traffic. I still burnt a lot of clock in Sunday traffic but much less stress involved.