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

Most of the cool places you will have to drive by.
Some guys stop more at places than others.
Me? If I have extra time on a load. It will be spent as close to the delivery point as possible.

 

free time is time to catch up on some sleep for me..

 

my log for that day

 

And don't forget now the weather will have to be factored in when traveling from east to west. Also the mountains may take longer than what you figure if you have a heavy load. Also some companies do not want you to leave truck very long unsupervised if you are under a load. Most places you see will be as you go by.

 

That's workin the system!

 

Sometimes necessary.

....and a disclaimer: Anyone who thinks the "...12 days in a row" thing is legal....well, it AIN'T!! I don't want someone screwing up and tryin' to say '...but I heard it on TTR AND the CB, so it MUST be true.....".....

 

Now I was not asking that in accusatory fashion... just curious.

 

I haven't had to do that yet...

 

I started that night at 2300 on the 4th. I have been running on recap hours and didn't want to use up a 15 min pre trip so it all worked out. That was my hot load. My qualcomm is on mountain time and I didn't have a set apt. But wanted to get their as early as I could because they always unload me early and I can start my restart. Which didn't end up happening so still on recapp hours will lose only 1 hr and 17 mins tonight but should put me at 10 hrs tomorrow. My fleet manager is on vacation normally I would be pre planned, but I'm not. I'm sure I will get a load out of Gainesville, heading back to Ankeny though.

 

It's not just big companies strict on how long a load should take,all companies are pretty much like that.Reason being is because some customers will charge the carrier for being late which will come out of the drivers pay.Then some will drop the carrier if too many late loads.Dispatchers will work with you if you think you'll be late but you MUST communicate with them ahead of time.For the most part they give you enough time to make delivery.It's all up to you whether you wanna be ontime or be a trk stop hero and be late.The more you stop the less hrs you have to run.No reason to be late unless wheather related then again you tell you dispatcher immediately.When you get the load info you do the math and see if you have the hrs to make it to your deliverly safely and ontime,if not your dispatcher can repower the load.They don't like to be told at the last minute you'll be late.Which could result as a service failure on your dac.You don't want too many of them.The key word is COMMUNICATION. and you'll do fine.