I need advice on running recaps.

I need advice. Recap mishap.

My company is pushing my husband and I to run recaps. From my understanding we can each run 8 hours and 45 mins each day for 8 days and on day 9 roll over 8 hours and 45 minutes each. Doing this has caused 2 of our loads to be late. When we arrive and drop our loads we don’t know if they will have one set up for us immediately or not. This past week had been go, go, go. Meaning we are taking time under a load sitting. Waiting for 10 hours to start or waiting for midnight to start. This leaves 6 hours and thirty minutes per day that we aren’t moving the loads. But once under a load they time it as if it is moving at 40 mph. So if the load is 1200 miles we have 30 hours to get it there before it is late. We are governed at 65 so it should take 20 hours to get there (at 60 mph) if we were running full clocks. But running recaps we together will run 17.5 hours 1 day then sit 6.5, start again at midnight and finish the last 3 hours. This equals 27 hours. This is calculated at running 60 mph the entire time. So anything that causes a that to fluctuate will most likely cause the load to be late. I feel defeated. I’m trying really hard to understand this but I’m just not getting it. I was also informed that there are 2 other teams that run on recaps that are making the loads and not having any issues. Unless they are running on on duty yard move then I have no idea how they are doing it. Advice would be appreciated.
not sure if I explained this well. We are running 24/7 under loads. Arrive, drop trailer, check in, take load. 7days a week. On recaps. now there may be a few hours between sometimes but this week there has not been. It’s been drop-go. So how do I efficiently run recaps as a team? Also, this is a learning experience for me. No need to be harsh or rude.

 

I never ran teams/but doing recaps I didn’t see the point of just running 8-8/12 hours just to work hard every day.
I’d run my days work, if I knew where i could park, I’d push my full 11, other then that drive 10, last hour to be getting off the road/park safe.

Do that M-F, using 12-13 hours, then Sat and Sunday run 6-7-8 however many you can spare for the two days, & wash clothes, kinda relax some.
But working 12 hours/day X5 60 hours so Weekends you’ve got 10 hours left, so then do some Saturday 4-5 hours then again on Sunday.
Keeping say an hour before running out of 70.

Everyone has their own way, I’ve always just ran hard and figure my time will catch me, still didn’t have to stop, just slow down a bit on the weekends and time catches.

 

This wouldn’t help. It still leaves load to be late Saturday and Sunday.

 

Saturday and Sunday is for me, If I work and make all loads M-F running the way I do, they’re lucky I’m working at all on my days.
I’m not slowed down, once pushed it from Tallapoosa GA to Minden LA in 7 hours 50 minutes drive, around 520 miles, only stopped once and that was at Louisiana check station i had to roll into.

 

Gotcha

 

Yall gotta trip plan a little bit better it looks like. If you have 30 hours to run 1200 miles, one of you can get a 34 hour reset while the other runs the load. A solo can run 1200 miles in 30 hrs. Then when your co-driver gets hours back, you keep running. Also, you can't really BS around if y'all are teaming. You gotta start and stop on time. Instead of planning your load by running 8 hours daily, look at the load itself and then plan it accordingly. 1200 miles means 600 for each of you. If you get 30 hrs to deliver then you have quite a bit of time for 1 of you to reset if necessary. No 2 loads are ever the going to be ran the same.

 

It’s so confusing to me. I have never ran recaps. If we are under a load 24/7 it dosnt matter how long the load is, we can’t run recaps and keep it within the time frame allotted for delivery. We will eventually run out of hours and need a 34. But the company does not want us taking them.

 

A little old, but maybe he’ll explain it and show with pencil and paper.

 

Well both of you don't have to take a 34 at the same time. One can still run while the other takes a 34, if the load will allow for it.

 

Hopefully you're both making like 150k/year each for being asked to work every day. Does the company ever plan on giving you a day off?