Grief from company for average speed?

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by MACK E-6, Apr 20, 2019.

  1. Chinatown

    Chinatown Road Train Member

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    You should have sprayed super glue on the toilet seats before leaving for the last time.
     
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  3. olddog_newtricks

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    Just take your mileage divide by 60 and that's the number of hours you log. There problem solved.:D
     
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  4. how did you manage to pull that off the federal mandate over a year now?? are you one of those ones that does something that exempts you??
     
  5. Moose1958

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    I know I am going to open a nice can of worms with this comment. Back years ago I had been pulled into the Banning California scales. I had started my day at what was then a Rip (off) Griffins just west of Phoenix. Whenever I crossed into a truck 55MPH state from a none I was careful to note the time of said crossing and drew a line and noted that crossing. Doing so that day saved me a logbook speeding ticket because I was in a tractor with a governor set at infinity I guess, I was going close to 75 in Arizona. That DOT officer tried every way he could but always came up on that line. One reason he could not cite me was after entering California I did 55. I don't think elogs will allow this.
     
  6. supersnackbar

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    Poly use to ding you if you averaged over 65 mph on a daily log. We had 68 mph trucks, and if you were empty, on a long deadhead for a backhaul then it was totally possible, but we were on paper logs then. They went e-logs a while ago, so not sure what they're doing now.
     
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  7. x1Heavy

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    I had a infinity truck a time or two. I did that also in paper logs. Montana was fun once upon at time.

    1995 to 1999 happy time by day. Open her up. in the 80's they required a stack of 5.00 bills for speed fines at any speed. (Abuse of resources or some such, NYAH to Uncle Sam.)

    After 1999 70 mph. After 2015 it's 80.

    Oh Monty, how I missed you. Downgrade off Continental Divide past a dollar. Being passed by faster trucks.

    After a hour or two you still had hundreds of miles of Monty still yet to go. 100+ became boring.
     
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  8. tinytim

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    You're both wrong.
     
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  9. tucker

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    62.64010022416036 ????
     
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  10. gokiddogo

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    62.4 mph
    I do that or better on my long runs.... on elog..
    Whups.
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    261 not 260
    :/
     
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  11. booley

    booley Road Train Member

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    10 minutes is 1/6 of 60 or .16666667
    261 divided by 4.1666...
    equals= somewhere around 62 1/2 or 62 3/4
    I was rounding off
    I think it changes a little depending upon how far you go out past the decimal point...
     
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