My experience running 100% legal, if anyone cares.

Now I don't care who ya are, that was funny, right there!

And in a slow truck you're doing 3400 legally?!? You might get that fly on the CB, but it ain't happening unless you're running terminal to terminal. I averaged 3500mi/wk in a 315 HP 62 mph truck in '87-'89, and I'm here to tell you driver, legal running it wasn't! But I am just an old-timer who never went to some newfangled trucking school to learn how to do it right.

 

nothing to report, no miles, no hours worked. I got a 34 hr reset at the crappy t/s in Hialeah Gardens. It only cost me $25.68 to park there, which Knight probably wont pay me back! And they still wont tell me if I will get paid detention for all my lost time. If I were a betting man, I bet the farm, they are not going to pay me!
Today I am in South Bay, FL at Domino Sugar. What a dump! I've been here 5 hrs now. Maybe if I spoke spanish, I could get out of here faster. B/c all the drivers that spoke spanish seem to have no problem getting loaded. I wonder why that is???
It's pretty bad when I feel like the foreigner in my own country! But that's another thread.

 

Been there a hundred times, once it took 2 days to get loaded, and that place smells. When you leave, be CAREFUL, small town of south bay uses their radar on big trucks everyday. Where is that load going?????

 

If you're going around the east side of the lake, and north, for sure follow the truck route. It's posted well.

 

It's a great big load, 292 miles to Jacksonville, FL

 

You got enough LEGAL time to run it today?? Or is it a 2 day trip for ya!!!!

 

Actually, since it took 1 hr to unload in Miami and 5.5 HRS TO LOAD at Domino, I wont be able to make it to J-ville without a 10 hr break! These rules are great! 2 days to drive less than 300 miles cuz I'm fatigued!!!

 

Screeeeew that.. Thats why I'm sitting home. I can't stand that dragging ### type of trucking, you have more patience than I would. Good Luck....Let me know where you are in Jax, I'll bring ya a bologna sandwich -The way things are going- you'll need it, Ha...

 

basically

as I said, they automatically figure a 15 minute fudge factor on your logs, if your trying to be too anal and tight, they will start to get nosey about it.

My boss tells me to use my best judgement as to how to log the time at a dock. As far as meals go, it's all line 1 unless I'm hauling some type of flammable, then they expect me to log meals on line 4.

it can either be in writing or a known company policy. We used to carry a slip of paper in our permit books that stated we are allow to log meal breaks on line 1.

 

Dang it man, I sure hope you get reloaded today. Where ya at W-D? At least there is some freight around Jax...