My experience running 100% legal, if anyone cares.

Today was a good day! I just decided to call it a day a little early so I could get back to driving during the day and sleeping at nite.(like a normal person)
342 miles driven
6 hrs on duty
$112.28 earned
or $18.71/hr
I am scheduled to drop/hook anytime on the 19th so I figured I may as well take a short day so I can get back to driving during the day, which is just safer for me.
Once again, it was a good money day as I had nothing to do but drive. I know we need customers to have a job, but dealing with them is one of the biggest reasons we dont make money!
Allegedly, I will have a load waiting on me in our Dallas yard. WOO HOO! Another drop/hook and then I deliver to Vineland, NJ (Boo! Hiss!) on the 22nd, 1821 miles! It's a load of produce going to Mission Produce. If I remembering the right customer, I've been there before and it will be a 4-5 unloading time! Oh well, I'll worry about that when I get there! (If I get the load!)

 

448 miles driven
8 hrs on duty
$152.32 earned
or $19.04/hr
Once again, a good day, but a short one. Dropped the load at the cust., no mt trl to take away, so I BT to our Dallas terminal to wait for my next load.
The load I just delivered was 163 mt miles and 1194 loaded miles. If I were allowed to to be creative, I easily could have turned that load in 2 days! But playing by the rules forced me to do it in 3 days. The load paid me $461.38, or $153/day legally, being creative, $231/day. How is logging legal NOT like taking a pay cut??? not to mention, that I would have been available an entire 24 hrs earlier to p/u my next load!
On a sidenote, I got up this am with no A/C! This is goona suck! Either run without it or lose up to 2 days to get it fixed!
My current load is a relay I picked up in our yard going to Vineland, NJ. It's 1450 miles, due Tues a.m.. They company is already telling me I have to relay it as I wont be able to legally deliver on time. Just great, before they wouldnt care and I would have been there on time! oh well!

1450 paid miles/60 mph = 24.16 hrs driving. means I need 2 rest breaks. total legal run time is 44 hrs and I only have 42 hours to get there. That's what the company says anyway. I do them dont worry about, I would be there on time, they said no, I have to relay! Whatever!

 

I was shown a mistake in my math. If I had a regular job I would have worked 17.5 hr OVERTIME! my calculations did not take that into account. Here are the revised numbers for last week:

1920 actual miles driven
40 hrs straight time, 17.5 hrs OT
$652.80 earned, before taxes or
$9.84/hr
Now, I am really disgusted with myself and this crappy job! If you really want to cry, take the gross income divided by 168 away from home, and now I make $3.88/hr! Someone get me a pistol and 1 bullet please!

 

Am I complaining? maybe, but I never suggested that I be paid while sleeping. I was only doing the math to prove my belief that TRUCKERS CANNOT MAKE VERY MUCH MONEY RUNNING 100% LEGAL! We are gossly under-paid for the sinle most important job is the world. WITHOUT TRUCK DRIVERS, NOTHING MOVES! Its time for people, including some truck drivers, to learn that fact!!! Drivers, you are worth more!