Most miles driven in One day ?

This is one of those "one upsmanship" type of threads. Whatever you say, I did better.

Like the "how much money do you make?" kind of threads.

 

If this is true this man is the official king of trucker endurance. Is he still alive lol?

 

I used to do stupid things 35-45 yrs ago and still I am capeble of doing stupid things. Just smarter now. More to the point is not how fast your truck can run ,mine goes 110, but how many miles you can log in 11 hours and it it sure as heck is not the speed limite or above. I've seen a lot of replies on here that guys say they are loging above the speed limit, then I say they have never had a DOT officer check their logs or they would have been broken of that habit.

 

Yeah, he is still running... but not nearly as hard as he used to... but still harder the most of us would ever wanna run(including me). He's now doing bull racks, and keeps it to an easy 900 to 1000 miles a day(his words). LOL!

 

I've done 724 in a 24 hour period. 660 ish in one shift. 65mph truck and elog.

 

none of us can run like the old guys could, not sure I'd even want to try, although I've had moments. There is a thread on here somewhere about the old companies: Monfort, etc.. In the early 90's I knew a couple of the Monfort guys, company I worked for, their backhaul from the E. coast was a load of books for us. Many of those guys would leave Greeley on Weds., deliver to Hunts Point, drop/hook in Chambersburg, Pa., and be sitting at our dock before 8pm Sunday. I've figured it up before, that's some serious hauling. Now, to do that you'd have to be running team.

 

THank you had no idea that they did those types of things. I'm not surprised an ag/scale combo gave you some flack. They had the inspection station on 77 open friday night. Bears were everywhere thank god I was in my car. That time of night I usually blow through a small town called cortland in my truck at about 72 speed limit drops down to 45 but usually after midnight on a friday 77 is dead nope not this night. I seen the state boy with one on the side flashed every bullwagon and chicken truck on that highway. One old boy had a headlight out hope he made it through there okay.

I have heard those story's as well. I pulled into Murdo SD to fuel last week and there was an old timer talking to me about his days of running a bullwagon back in the 70s said he'd load up out west headed to the east boss would hand him a handful of pills and smile and say have a nice trip. There's a song called truckers speed is what he said. Can't remember who it's by but he said listen to the lyrics...yep that's the way I felt back in those days. And sometimes I didn't think my wheels were touching the ground. Guess they did some high quality stuff back then.

Now I don't run with a pocket full of pills, but I do have a $50 behind my licence for the locals. It's just extra insurance. There is NO sense in paying a fine when that $50 will do the job and get me out of there. But no I don't think I'd ever want to even try to run with the old boys. That's a new kind of crazy. And that ain't bull hauler tough that's just flat out insanity. I know a guy that turned 7200 one week...his week ended when he took out the side of a bridge and took out the entire passenger side of his truck. He's lucky he didn't go into the river. Yes we run hard and do some things were not proud of but now days we know where to draw the line. I ain't about to leave a family behind just to get a paycheck...although last weeks check was pretty good and I only had 2 loads. if I would've had 5 of those it would've been a $13000 gross week. that's prorated of course.

No sense in even trying. I'm assuming that's reefer so it's probably a little bit different. But I know for a fact there's a company I called pulling a rack that'd send me from WY over to a packing house up there in PA, send me down south and then bring me back to omaha. Leave tuesday and they'd expect me back sunday. They're giving me an extra day, but that's a few more miles. The trip you brought up was about 3500 miles. Depending on unload times you can pull that off as a single, you're not getting much sleep but it can be done as a single if you're good with a loose leaf. But driving on no sleep up in that part of the country...IF FLAT INSANITY!

 

That's about an average day for a bullwagon. If you're running regional. If you're running coast to coast he's full of more #### than his trailer is. IF he really ran the way you're describing he's better off pulling a bull rack. Specially in MO they won't mess with him loaded. The rockport scale got hammered for that a few years ago. Put a loaded bull rack OOS driver called the USDA and PETA. Lets just say Rockport doesn't put loaded cow trucks OOS anymore.

 

Does that even work anymore? I thought you'd get charged with "bribing a police officer" nowadays.

 

It DIDN'T work down in KS, and I made sure the jerk seen it. Never had the chance to try it anywhere else. from what I hear now days the best way to get the DOT cops to leave you the hell alone is to be a member of a paid legal service and put the sticker on your licence or your truck. I hear they don't give you as hard of time when you've got a lawyer on speed dial. I'd rather keep a $50 behind my license than pay my hard earned money to a lawyer that's going to rake me over the coals.

Keep in mind it depends on the town too and weather it's a local or a sheriff. I know the officers at the sheriffs department in my county. They know my rig, and they know me personally, know my dad as well. Most of them are good guys. There's one that doesn't like me but he doesn't run radar least not when I'm around. I blew by one of the sheriffs one night, was 100 miles from home and said screw it through the log in the bunk, and headed home, blew by him in the center at 75 in a 65.

Seen him pull out, and all his lights come on aside from his red and blues. He followed me 10 miles up to the truck stop I park at. I parked and he walked up to my door and we got a good laugh. He asked me if I knew how fast I was going when I passed him I said yea not fast enough because you caught up to me. Bought him a cup of coffee and told him to have a safe night. He went back out to run radar. Every sheriff down there knows what I do for a living now, they all know what goes into hauling cattle as well.

They don't mess with us for the most part. DOT cops on the other hand they do want to screw with us, I might as well paint a big target on my truck. In the Midwest with all the beef they know what we do, they will stop you, and you will get fined if they find something. One phone call to the highway patrol can clear that up though. I've become very bitter towards DOT cops lately. I'm just trying to do my job, I understand they have to do theirs but some of the nit picking bullcrap they're doing right now is ridiculous. Just like the inspection station on 77 being open. It's open literally 1 week all year and that's blitz week. Why the #### did you have to go and open it up Friday night with a set of portables? It's right after an onramp on the NB side, there's less than 1/4 mile between the open sign and the entrance to the scale, quite frankly it's dangerous and you open that SOB when the drunks are out on a Friday night?

I would say their time was better spent busting the drunken idiots than pulling trucks in on a set of portables...

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