How do you plan/prepare for this?

I know they do dry van and reefer. Im hoping someone who's worked for them can chime in and better inform you about Wilson Logistics.

 

Most cross country runs you will drive during day and sleep at night. If you load truck at 8 am. You will spend maybe 3-5 hours getting loaded. You also will have already started your working day on log book/ELD. So once loaded you will start driving to Virginia beach. If you started working day at 8 am getting loaded, in Tacoma you will have to park by 10pm. 14 hour log limit. So you will basically keep that 8am to 10pm day going. Your delivery appointment in Virginia Beach would not be till something like 8am or 10am

 

Trucks have blackout curtains so it can get pretty dark in sb. I have trouble going to bed in the middle of the day, 10-16. Stay away from reefer cause it’ll mess with your sleep schedule.

 

I enter the address into the GPS and that generates 2 routes, fastest & shortest. I look at the paper atlas and see if those 2 routes make sense. I pick one of those routes and throuought the drive I pick intermediate stops for 30-minute breaks and 10 hour breaks.

I also pick the route into the receiver.

 

When you drive a company truck and they are paying for everything. They will probably tell you what way to go. You can see sometimes is almost the same distance

It right at 3,000 miles so 3,000/550 or 600 miles a day. Would mean you need to 5 days to drive it. So dispatch could make delivery appointment on the 6 day basically any time. If the delivery is closed for the weekend or on Sunday they would make delivery appointment for Monday morning and you would now have extra time on the load. You might only need to drive 450 miles a day. You could still drive 600 miles a day and try to get parked near delivery by Saturday evening. Then take 34 hour rest on log book and deliver Monday morning ready to keep drive for the next week

 

I'd put 8 days to do it safely, not by these min max times.

 

If I were you, I’d reschedule the appointment so you have ample time to take a few days to see and experience Bismarck, ND. I hear it’s lovely there this time of year.

Let’s face it, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Believe me, your employer and the customer will understand.

 

well, you can TRY to increase the miles to get more money, but 9 out of 10 times, your company will pay you practical miles or HHG miles, or zip code to zip code..never try to make fraudulent claims in your driven miles. it is a sure fire way to get you fired for stealing money.

you get out your Rand McNally truckers road atlas, and map out the most direct miles. even if it means toll roads.

then make slight adjustments (if you have to) along the way.

DO NOT depend on ANY GPS, read a map, and if you don't know how to read a map...LEARN.....

 

No it won’t.
After you’ve been up all day on off duty loading, and drive all night, you’ll sleep fine the next day, pull the curtains and it’ll be dark in the cab