Typical daily schedule

Wow 2010.. has it gotten any worse since then? I usually stop every 2 hours and set in fuel island for an hour... then I'll drive for prolly another 3 hours and repeat the process...

 

1/8 of a gallon of water would be plenty to have to pee after 2 hours. Should drink at least 4X that much thru out the day. That's half a gallon a day minimum, more in summer.

 

If you were gonna go into the military, do you think you could make the demand that you want to take a break and pee every two hours? How about sleeping at night, do you get up every 2hrs to pee?

You better learn to train your bladder.

 

Metabolism is slower when sleeping. I usually only need to get up once at night to pee. I pee when I need to, no more, no less. Peeing is not a break and is not optional. It is a mandatory physical need. No one can be penalized for going to the bathroom when needed. Obviously.

 

Okay snowflake. Im gonna remove myself from this before I get in trouble by telling you to...nevermind...

 

Wow, so you're one of those.

 

If you have to pee every 2 hours you better learn how to pee in a bottle or find different line of work.
Some times you’ll have the time to stop as often as you want, but there will be times when you’ll have to cover 600 miles a day. You won’t have the time to stop, but for your 30 min rest and you better combine that with your fuel stop.
A local gig may be better for you.

 

How do you get 600 miles in one day? Most rookies are limited to 60-65mph. Hit even the slightest traffic and there is no way to get 600 miles in 10 hours of driving.

 

Day and night. you slept next week when empty. After you took care of the truck and company papers.

You will find that you are on a rotating HOS schedule. Sleep by day and then later try to sleep by night.

It is not a life fit for humans who are wired to sleep at night particularly between roughly 2 to 6 am in particular. That's when deliveries must be made and accurately plus not late.

The best you can do when Dispatcher simon says be in NYC hunts at 2 am 5 days from somewhere west you have to tripplan against your HOS remaining hours and so forth very carefully to be sure you can make your assigned schedule. If not you either handed the load off when your HOS burned out or you were getting a new appt time.

The days of outlaw are pretty much dead, has been 20 years on.

 

Forget the 600 in 11. Look at the 8 hour sleeper and you find that you still have about 5 hours until midnight. That's worth around 250 300 more miles. If you were a team you would be putting away a little less than 1400 every 24 hours. That's enough to get from LA to Avenel NJ in about a little under 50 hours flat.

I generally run at night. Hardly nothing in the cities and towns that does not require a long cut. If you were smart you bypassed chicago completely. Run through the woods further south.