log vs speeding

So are you upset that they have time to stop and bs or stop for a meal and still make it somewhere faster than you sitting there in your 60 mph truck all day and covering a whole 400 miles in 11 hours?

 

Idaho, Washington, and Oregon follow the speed limit, note the times you pass thru the weigh stations. If your heavy and running legal on the speeds your only going to average about 48 or so.....

Big truck are either running around the scales or just plain gambling.

 

There is a certain amount that most will allow you to shave, but not much.

 

If I pass you once...You'll more than likely never see me again because I keep the left door shut and run....But if I need to stop, I do.

A far superior scenario to the other way that it sounds like you might prefer...Run slow...Pee in a bottle...run slow some more eat a sandwich that you made with the hands that you didn't wash after you peed in the bottle...run slow some more...Stop for the night 150 miles behind me.

I log it as I do it...I run the speed limit or ###### close to it whatever it may be wherever I am...But I run a big motor and I can usually run at or near the speed limit when pulling all but the steepest grades.

In a 75 MPH region...I usually average about 66 or 67 logging it as I do it.

I have no relationship with the non existent deity that isn't upstairs and I always pass level 1, level 2 and level 3 inspections.

So do Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Washington, Oregon, California and many others...


You guys always seem to say that the same trucks pass you 2 or 3 times a day when you run slow...I don't really buy into that argument.

But then...How would I know what it's like to run so slow that I have time to take note of every truck that passes me every day and how many times that happens each day?

I'm covering miles and delivering freight...

 

By the way....I haven't had a speeding ticket in a truck in many years.

 

What makes you think I drive a slow truck? I am limited to 74mph ... and run back empty. Today I stopped for fuel (20min, slow cashier) and lunch with a friend (35 min). Ran from Albuquerque, Nm to Kingman, Az ... and I know I passed the same people twice

.... 3 times if you count stoping at the Arizona POE

 

I log it as i run it, if i do 600 miles with 10 hours driving thats how i log it, my truck will run the speed limit loaded or empty unless i hit a big hill. If i'am all highway driving for a day i can average 65mph no problem.

 

I honestly kinda feel bad for them most of the time. I don't envy any fast truck or the job that comes with it (other than UPS) - the speed of my truck annoys me at times but all the traffic just passes me as I make $33.54 an hour at 62 MPH with my foot on the dash. At $.40 per mile (which is pretty high from what I see anymore) you'd have to be doing 83.9 MPH to average my wage while on mileage. We are all out here to make money right??

On top of that, it always seems to be the truck that already passed me 3 times ends up blowing by me at 75 a mile before the scale and does 25 even though there are 47 signs that clearly state 'maintain 40 MPH". The other thing that always amused me since I've always bid runs with a lot of state and US highway is how I get passed three times on the big road but smoke them on some curvy US highway - often times on US 30 or US 22 in the Keystone I would hang back till the hardest curve and absolutely smoke the super fast big road super trucker on the curve.

I can't think of a better definition for a steering wheel holder than the driver that will run his mouth on the big road about my slow truck but can't even manage 10 under on some tough Pa two lane with one box. I was generally very lucky in that I was on those roads with Pa and NJ large cars at night but some of the mid-west and most of the southern boys with fast trucks and big mouths and no real driving ability stuck out.. This is why I'm not at all worried about holding you fast drivers up on 95 - if I see I was wrong once they pass me I apologize on the CB..