Most Legal Miles in one 11 hour shift

Occasionally I'll see guys on here claiming that they're doing 850+ miles a day, and the first thing that comes to my mind is, you didn't do it legally, at least not using an ELD.

Over the last month I've done some loads from California to the Midwest. In the western US (other than the west coast) we have wide open spaces and high speed limits. My truck maxes out at 75mph and my personal best in this truck was 759 miles in an 11 hour shift. So even though I can generally go 75 mph, speed variations such as hills, truck scales and construction zones brought my average speed down to 69 mph.

On a previous job with paper logs, I went as high as 875 miles on some days in the western US, but of course paper logs are easy to fudge the times so you can squeeze more miles in, and that truck would go 85 mph.

So has anyone figured out how to get more miles in a legal 11 hour shift?

 

I probably should have remembered that. I drove a few ag loads back in March and April that did have at least a couple 800+ mile days. But those aren't the norm for me. Glad I don't do those very often. My body didn't like those long days with little sleep.

 

1102 miles would be difficult to explain to a DOT officer, even back in the day on paper logs.