To drivers coming off a highway shoulder.

"...take your reset like a good driver." I am not sure that taking a reset is required for one to be a good driver. As I stated earlier, it requires thinking and planning to work on recap, but for me, it works better than taking a reset. Better in the sense that I actually end up running MORE miles than when I have to take a reset. I am currently running on recap, and my last seven days miles equal 3,400.

To me, running on recap is sort of like learning to live on a budget. You know ahead of time how many hours you have coming back in the upcoming days, and you must plan so that you utilize those hours as efficiently as possible. For example, this past week I knew I had one day where I would only gain 2:20. However, the day before that I gained 8:12. On the day I gained 8:12, I had 1:34 left from the prior day so I could have run a longer day. Instead, I chose to only run 6:11. I ended the day with 3:35 remaining, picked up the 2:20 at midnight, and then ran 5:51 for the day. I was still able to run decent miles on both of those days, and splitting it up means that next week I will gain around 6 hours on each of those days instead of still having a short-hour day in my recap. I just had to coordinate my trip planning around all of this. Trip planning is the key. That load was over 2,600 miles round-trip and stretched over several days so I had some flexibility.

To your point regarding a day off, I consider those days when I run fewer hours as my easy days. It gives me a few more hours of down time, but I am able to keep moving and the miles keep adding up.

Everyone runs things differently. Personally, I don't feel that being a good driver is based on whether you believe you need to do a 34 or not.

 

I'm pretty sure the guy wasn't taking a 34 on the shoulder.

@w.h.o called it, thread turned into a discussion about logging lol

 

LOL....yep. I guess we took the bait.

 

Kinda like you buy a certain brand of car and all of a sudden you see them everywhere, today I noticed more and more trucks parked right on the side of the freeway than i noticed before. Probably the same amount as any other day but just noticed it more due to this thread.
@farmboy73 I agree with you, run recaps. Run big hours 7 days and turn in a shorty day and pick up the big hours again. A 34 is rarely just that, it is usually 44, 54 or 64 hours down. 70 is 70 so taking a 34 isn't going to help us get to 82 as the politicians say.