Glad I moved over to Poly Trucking

Glad to hear it is working out for you. I am still not on them and hope to avoid that #### as long as I can as it will certainly cost me a bundle. I am currently sitting at 147,000 miles over the last 49 weeks and should be at 157,000 or so for a full year. If I could turn those kind of miles on e-logs then bring them on but I highly doubt that is possible.

 

If you cant pull 3k miles a week on elogs, you're doing something wrong. Unless the loads you get have extremely haggard ### p/u and del times spread out all over kingdom come, its quite easy. And even then, its not that bad. Been doing elogs for 2 years now.

Now if youre used to doing 600+ mile days all week, or if it takes the shipper/ rec more than 4hrs to load/unload, it may bite you a little. But if you kniw what youre driving into in those situations, its easy to plan accordingly.

That i think is most peoples hang ups on elogs. Yall get used to trip planning with paper logs and the ability to "make adjustments" if need be. Gotta plan just a bit different with elogs, but like i said, its not difficult at all.

 

3000 miles a week is nothing on elogs. Honestly, you're really making too big a deal about elogs. I can easily turn 3500 a week on elogs and never do a recap. That's not my average, but I could. My weekly average (2960) is just slightly less than yours and I'm on elogs.

I've been on both and, frankly, I prefer elogs 95% of the time. They save me time. I push a button and I'm done. No drawing lines, writing anything, etc...

The 5% of time that elogs are a pain is when that favorite rest area, diner, truck stop, brothel, or whatever trips your trigger (lol) is 10 mins farther down the road than you can legally get to. With paper, I'd roll right on to that spot and "fix" my log. Can't do that with elog. Well, you can, but I'm not going into that for now.

I really do think you'll find, however, that you will actually save time on your 70 as elogs log to the minute, none of that 15 minute increment b.s.

You either log legally or you don't. If you do, elogs are not going to affect you 95% of the time.

 

That 3k a week is computed counting my home time as well which is about 2 months of off time. My time while out is close to 3120 miles/week. I highly doubt that more than 1% of the drivers in the US are turning 156,000 miles per year. While I may be able to retain that production it is also coming with eliminating a lot of what I find enjoyable about driving (traveling slower back roads to name one). As far as legal is concerned I am a firm follower of the thinking of Lazarus Long.
I'm as smart, hard working and as efficient as any driver anywhere and I reckon I'll figure out how to adapt but I can sure as hell tell you I ain't going to like it in comparison to what I do now.

 

Anybody here runnin truck #3511? Runnin west on 80 today outta SLC?

 

I do not blame ýou. First, I got too much stuff. Second, I don't like being in enclosed areas with people I don't know. If it's an emergency, yes I will give a guy a ride to a hotel. But no cross country sojourns with strangers.

My breakdowns in first two years:
Idaho 6 days,
Knoxville 10 days
Biloxi 4 days

I just rented a car form Enterprise and enjoyed myself. Poly did pay for the rooms.
The thing about breakdowns is the driver is ususlly kept in the dark about how long it will actually take to fix the truck. I talked to a guy whose son works for Poly and he said the kid was stuck for 2 weeks in the Florida Panhandle.

Recently, I was taking a load to Charlotte, radiator hose busted in Arkadelphia Sunday. I call Michelin, tell them I can send them a picture, they say no.

Mechanic gets there an hour later. "I didn't know it was THAT hose," he tells me. He didn't have THAT hose, but he could get it first thing tomorrow and come fix truck. He leaves.

Michelin calls and tells me they will send a tow truck to take me to nearby hotel to wait. Small car tow truck arrives an hour later, tells me to pack bag and leave truck on side of freeway and go to hotel with him. I say no, then 20 minutes later the big tow truck driver gets there and says Poly wants him to tow truck and trailer to his yard, then another tow truck driver will bring just the truck to me in morning then we will go to Hot Springs International to get hose fixed.

We get to Hot Springs, no one told them we were coming. Part coming from Dallas, truck fixed next day around 1500. Enterprise rental car to the rescue again. I hiked to the top of that mountain and rode up that observation tower and enjoyed the scenery. Ate at a couple interesting restaurants. Nice hotel room at BW. Another driver picked up my load and left me an empty. Went to West Arkansas to get his load and was told it had already been picked up. Ricardo tells me to sit tight a few and then calls and asks if I could rescue a Burlington load from a driver broke down in Memphis. I say yes, deliver it, then make it back to GP on Monday with 3200 under my belt. My head is still spinning from that whirlwind adventure.

 

We call that .... Beast Mode

 

That's very true. I run a dedicated route of 2,492 miles every week. When I get back to the yard I've still got 27 hours left. I could easily run another 1500 miles. That would be a hair under 4000 miles within 70 hours.

 

Just finished up my year since returning to Poly. No miles here

Year totals:
Miles: 158,361
Drops: 136
Home days: 43
Average miles/week home time included: 3045
Average miles/day without home time: 492