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<p>[QUOTE="lovesthedrive, post: 11567639, member: 22422"]When I drove for CR England. They said the average driver will average 50 mph. You might go faster and find yourself worn out more and need to stop more frequently. Yet the average is 50 mph (it gives you a cushion). Also your average day will be 10 hours.</p><p><br /></p><p>10 x 50 = 500 miles per day. This also presumes you get stuck in traffic for rush hour and accidents. As it was mentioned elsewhere you need to add in your 10 hour break. Yet the driver may use more hours than that.</p><p><br /></p><p>IE you get up in the morning and get dressed. Go on duty and go get something to eat. Chat with other drivers, listen to the comical supertruckers spin wild fantasies about drivng in 4 feet of snow in a blinding rainstorm. Get back to the truck and stow the purchases away and do the pretrip inspection. Get in the cab and verify where your going. Look up the route with google and see if any road work or closures. Realizee you need fuel and pull up on the pump and get topped off. What do you know, you just burned a hour of on duty time. Change duty to on duty driving</p><p><br /></p><p>Hit the road. Drive for 5 hours. It might be nice to pull over and have some lunch. Pull over change back to on duty not driving. Get out of the truck and stretch the legs. Maybe walk the length of the rest area parking lot a couple of times. Go get your lunch from the cab. Sit at a picnic bench and enjoy your time not driving. Well no time like the present, so time to go back to work. Do a enroute inspection before leaving. Get back in the cab. Verify distance to the receiver or road conditions. Log back on duty driving. Wow you just killed 7 hours of your day.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hit the road and drive 5 hours. Maybe they were easy miles and you racked up more than the 500 miles today. Maybe you hit an accident and were parked for 3 hours. Who knows. You found a good place to park for the night. Time to go on duty not driving. Maybe you feel guilty about chewing up the clock and decide to go off duty. At any rate you chewed through 12 hours of duty time alone.</p><p><br /></p><p>So dont plan that your day is 11 hours driven and 10 hours off. We are not that mechanical with our lives.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lovesthedrive, post: 11567639, member: 22422"]When I drove for CR England. They said the average driver will average 50 mph. You might go faster and find yourself worn out more and need to stop more frequently. Yet the average is 50 mph (it gives you a cushion). Also your average day will be 10 hours. 10 x 50 = 500 miles per day. This also presumes you get stuck in traffic for rush hour and accidents. As it was mentioned elsewhere you need to add in your 10 hour break. Yet the driver may use more hours than that. IE you get up in the morning and get dressed. Go on duty and go get something to eat. Chat with other drivers, listen to the comical supertruckers spin wild fantasies about drivng in 4 feet of snow in a blinding rainstorm. Get back to the truck and stow the purchases away and do the pretrip inspection. Get in the cab and verify where your going. Look up the route with google and see if any road work or closures. Realizee you need fuel and pull up on the pump and get topped off. What do you know, you just burned a hour of on duty time. Change duty to on duty driving Hit the road. Drive for 5 hours. It might be nice to pull over and have some lunch. Pull over change back to on duty not driving. Get out of the truck and stretch the legs. Maybe walk the length of the rest area parking lot a couple of times. Go get your lunch from the cab. Sit at a picnic bench and enjoy your time not driving. Well no time like the present, so time to go back to work. Do a enroute inspection before leaving. Get back in the cab. Verify distance to the receiver or road conditions. Log back on duty driving. Wow you just killed 7 hours of your day. Hit the road and drive 5 hours. Maybe they were easy miles and you racked up more than the 500 miles today. Maybe you hit an accident and were parked for 3 hours. Who knows. You found a good place to park for the night. Time to go on duty not driving. Maybe you feel guilty about chewing up the clock and decide to go off duty. At any rate you chewed through 12 hours of duty time alone. So dont plan that your day is 11 hours driven and 10 hours off. We are not that mechanical with our lives.[/QUOTE]
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