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Doesn't matter it's never going to happen.your drive time,miles are on a day to day bases.

 

I guess,so tell me what is the point you're trying to make?

 

^^ That type of mentality is great if you want to team drive while staying on the road for a long period. When I first started with Covenant ,that's how we drove and we never ran out of hours.. It also helped that the UPS/FEDEX/Amazon loads were all dispatched at "50 mph" and mostly drop/hook . (Amazon sucks though)

 

When I ran solo with Swift I averaged 2500 miles a week. The planners were pretty good about matching loads to my available hours. At times I might need to stop for the day when my 70 hour clock ran out, then start up again in time to catch recap hours coming back at midnight (home time).

While I could run for weeks at a time without taking a 34, other times I might need to take a 34 if there weren't enough recap hours coming back to get a worthwhile load. The latter happens when you maximize your hours several days in a row, running down your 70, and you might be left with only a couple hours on your 70 and no hours coming back.

Either way is fine with me. As I noted in an earlier post, just run as hard as you can when you are under load. The planners will take care of the rest.

It should also be noted that the planners and driver/fleet managers will know how you drive. Long haul hot loads will be assigned to those that demonstrate the ability to run and gun. Dawdlers get the scraps. That's why dawdlers tend to be "given" the "opportunity" to ##### and moan in company terminals. Runners are rarely in the conversation because they're running.