[QUOTE=" OPTIMUS PRIME ";1715227]Quick question if I may....
How many miles can a team legally drive weekly and monthly?
How many miles does your team Avg and what kind of trailer are you guys running?
Thanks for the info
O.P.[/QUOTE]
We average around 5,500 miles a week. Legally, each driver can drive 11 hours a day, so thats 22 hours a day for a team. If you log 65 mph for 22 hours a day that is about 1400 miles a day you can legally log. At that rate you will run out of your 70 hrs by the 6th day. But that isn't realistic...realistically...you have to factor in your day fueling, loading/unloading and other incidentals like traffic or using state highways. So, at Transam, when we trip plan we calculate our miles and time by 50mph....realistically somewhere around 1000 miles a day, you can do more, we have done more, but when we run 6,000 miles a week, we run out of our 70hours fairly quickly.
We haul refer units, which means we spend time sitting at receivers waiting to be unloaded.
Team's post here, PLZ!
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by SheepDog, Dec 4, 2010.
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I think we might make the change over to reefer though, b/c of the short miles with flats. Besides I've been running them for almost 6 years now.
I use to work for them when I first got out of cdl school. T/A is a good company not one bad thing to say about them. I'm asking b/c I was told we could only legally run 6,000 miles per week.
We're in the process of becoming Team O/O's running under our own authority and I want to get an accurate response to the number of miles. This would help us figure out our expected avg. pay rate. Thank you for the answer.
However, I think we could keep those mileage numbers in the high 5k a week range or more as an O/O. Even though the pay might not be that great, we can make up for that with the miles.
I really like the 50mph method you guys are using we will have to borrow that if you don't mind.
Don't really mind the waiting at the shippers, been doing it for a while now and I don't see why drivers have so many issues being a little patience. I just find something to do with the time, especially now with the internet and Slingbox.
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OP,,how are things going? My wife is talking again...LOL
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Thought I would try and revive this thread, again....
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As for our operation, we decided to wait till this comming spring to hit the road so we could save more money and rent the house out while we are gone. But I have been doing allot more intense research lately and I really been learning allot more. I think I maybe obsessed with this websitelol.
O.P.SheepDog Thanks this. -
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Hello friend,, wife and I are teaming at USXpress and doing great! We had 5200mi last week and 6000 this week.
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So sorry for not responding quicker...
Teams are paid .48 per mile and the .48 is split,,,,if both have hazmat...
My wife doesn't have hazmat, yet and I make .24 and she makes .23... the pay is split, not the miles and if you do the math on various miles per week, it works out pretty good for a team, especially a husband/wife team....airforcetoo Thanks this. -
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