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From Day One - Abilene Motor Express (Richmond, Wytheville, VA)
Discussion in 'Motor Carrier Questions - The Inside Scoop' started by ScooterDawg, Oct 1, 2012.
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RC (sorry it took so long to reply)
JohnBoy is right.... It depends on how things go. Typically, you can count on a huge difference from day to day. And it also depends on your delivery appointment. Generally, if you have two days to run 1200 miles, you ARE going to have to average 600 miles per day. Common sense, huh? But let's say you have 3 days to get there..... yep, you are going to average 400 miles per day. So, in essence, it depends on what kind of deadlines you are given. That is the bottom line.
Last week, I had to do some SERIOUS calculating, being I was running a bunch of rescue relays (that's what I call them), and I was working totally off of recaps. The good part about it was that I got some great miles. The down side to it was I had to flip my sleep schedule 3 times. I took a pic of my previous 6 days from my QUALCOMM, which will make you say "How did you log those hours?". Simple, the miles, and trips span past the midnight hour. But the miles average out to 580 per day (because the 26th, I sat in a truckstop with no hours, waiting for my recap to catch up with me).
The long and the short of it is that the ONLY thing that gets your daily average up is that kind of dispatches that you get, and the deadlines you have to meet. You have to be real careful about how many hours you run each day. If you AVERAGE 8.5 hours of driving per day, you will never have to recap.... you can run every day indefinitely. And let's say in that 8.5 hours, you average 63 mph (rough average) you will do 535.5 miles per day, which will give you 3748.5 miles in a 7 day period.... 7500 miles in a pay period. Now multiply that times your cpm (cents per mile).... surprising, huh? and you don't have to kill yourself to do it.
Don't worry about what your "all-time high" is.... worry about your average... that's where the money is. RC, I'm not directing that at you (I know you know how to do the numbers) I am just making a general statement.
Y'all be safe!!!!!
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