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

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