How many miles do you OTR drivers usually average per day?

My truck does 105 km/h and my best full 13-hour day average speed was 95 km/h. So about 750 miles.

But I'm a regional driver, and thrive on multiple drops and being home every night.

 

Personal best was 615. Truck governed at 64. Conditions were pretty good except for the traffic in SLC.
Who knew Idaho can be so flat.

 

I had a career average of 411 miles a day (2875) per week.
So say around 140k miles a year with a couple weeks vaca ...breakdowns whatnot...

I chose to exclusively run nights to be more efficient in my drive time. Staying up over 24 hours was pretty common. Sometimes I would goof off in towns and board at the last possible moment before it cost me a day off....no drive break drive break crap....actually went and seen some stuff.

I was company with a 65 mph truck 49+Canada. True wild mile trucking in a death trap ya know

Actually drove a lot more miles.... but that's what I got paid for in the average.

If you average 286 a day you are doing a "good" job company at a lot of places. YOU just aren't making any money.

Some days I'd just drive my max hours straight to get it over with no breaks. Some days I needed a break every couple hours or to get out and walk abit ya know.

 

I drive flats and actually do a good load check every 2 to 4 hours. There have been a few times I was really glad I did. That said long as I'm over 1000 km (600 ish miles) I've done well. If I do more than one pick or drop in a day I can already accept beforehand that what will be will be

 

My average for last 13 weeks (including 14 days off in that time) is 407.5 per day. Personal best in one day was 648 miles. Not bad for a 60mph truck. It's been a whole lot easier to get past 600 miles per day since it got turned up to 64.

 

If I'm not picking up or delivering, running overnight so I can park at like 11am and not have to burn my 14 looking for a spot, I can do about 620 average. When my Qualcomm went down and I got to run paper for a day, I did 800 lol

 

Well my trucks were governed at 63 so do the math. On a good run usually out west without delay I could do over 600 some guys make over 700

 

This many. This about all you can do on elogs governed at 68mph #### elogs. What you're seeing here is no truckstops. You can't run you're clock out like this sleeping at pilot. I sleep about every night on a ramp. I don't dig on truck stops anyway, #### food and #### accommodations lol. I shower on my 30 minute break

 

Really there are two answers. How many HAVE I ran? 741 Gov @ 70mph. What DO I run? Usually around 600 per day. Depends how far I have to run. If for example I get a 1100 mile load, I will ALWAYS try to have no more than 580 miles to go when I stop for the day. This is my comfort zone. Meaning I have a reasonably good chance to get there the next day unless I hit a major backup.

 

I hear stories on her from so many SUPER truckers.
1000 miles a day is way above legal and will definitely throw a red flag at DOT if you get stopped.
800 is also past legal, especially if you are loaded.
700 is borderline grey area, will raise a few eyebrows, but generally won't get you stoped.
Between 650 and 680 is very plausible in about 85% of all driving situations.
However, instead of trying to push the higher miles, learn to manage your time better.
Find out when you're delivery appointment is, take the time to better plan and compare your routes from shipper to receiver, and you'll find out that you don't have to drive mega miles everyday.
You can drive a few less miles every day, be less stressed when you park, have more time to do the things you need to do, be more relaxed when you go to bed etc..
I've been managing my time this way for years and other than extremely bad weather, or the highways being closed, I have never been late for a delivery.