How much time do you have to get your load to its destination?

On paper you can run 11 all week. ELogs not so much.
In certain instances you can do it.

Can't really go over on ELogs.
I usually plan for 10 and see where it puts me.

 

How much time do you have to get your load to its destination?

Not nearly enough sometimes...

The boss man buys big fast Peterbilts for a reason, read into that whatever you like..BTW, we do LTL reefer..

I would guess your bigger fleets would give you enough time, it seems they would almost have to since most of them hire newer drivers....Pushing n00bs to run hard is asking for trouble.

 

So, if I was hauling a dry van from say, VA to CA, it would be okay if I wanted to put in a couple 8 hour days instead of running 11's all the time?

 

Depends on the company and when your delivery appt is set up for....As long as your on time with your drop then yeah.

 

This is very true.

 

Why would you want to do that lol.
All depends anyways. Sometimes you'll have too much time. Other times you'll barely make it.

 

Start at 0001 (a minute after midnight). Run until 1100. Take break of 10hours. That takes you to 2100. Pre-trip, and you've still got over 2 1/2 hours to run on that calendar day. 13 1/2 hours at 62 mph comes to about 837 miles.

Looks funny, but perfectly legal. Just can't do it more than 12 days in a row.

 

Haha I know, crazy right? Just thinking about trying to work in some sight seeing, eating at cool places, etc..

 

This is your preplan. Its up to you to get the load there on time. That's how it works. You know how fast your truck can run. Or how many hours it is, and also those loaded miles and paid miles are not the exact millage to the place. That's just all they are paying you for. So You have to consider the extra miles in order to get there on time. Plus you have to make sure you can legally log those miles.

 

Hey Dino, like KMac wrote here, you were in violation when you drove 12:53 hrs on 10/05... But I guess you knew that and did it anyway.... for whatever reason. The screaming QC? I guess you just turned the volume all the way down and ignored it, right? And since DOT doesn't care about checking electronic logs (yet) you will probably be safe.