What do 4,000 miles a week look like

Trucking has become "Just in time" inventory control. Trucks now are rolling warehouse for companies. To get 4000 miles in a week you have to have products that are off loaded as soon as you get some place. That is not going to happen. The shipper is going to send the product out early so if anything goes wrong you can still get it there on time. Your dispatcher will dispatch you at 50 mph but you will drive as fast as you can to make the most money. Fast as you can if you are a company driver or 58 mph if you are an owner operator worried about fuel cost. You will get to the receiver and sit until they have time for you. If it is a Walmart you will be there for 5 hours. That is real world.

Now if for some reason you are on a dedicated run like I was at one time from say Kansas City to Denver 620 miles across I-70. That takes right at 11 hours with your half hour break included. Do a 10 in Denver while your trailer is unloaded and then loaded again. Head back to Kansas City refuel, back into the dock. Head home for 10 (which is really less because of commute time) You can do that 3 times a week. That works out to 3720 per week. I am betting that is about as close to 4000 a week as you will get.

 

It could be done on an ELD, not sure why that's so hard to believe.

Drop and hook long runs would work. 750-800 mile days aren't that hard to swing consistently. One off day would screw you though obviously.

 

Well a month ago i did 3900 miles in one week.
But i don't get that many miles every week, lately is kind of slow but with out problems i can run 3600 miles every week for long time managing my recap smart.
Now 4000 miles with a governed truck at 65 and e logs it's going to be only possible here and there, not every week.

 

Not having a governed truck makes a big difference. I usually do 725+ miles a day. Long loads, drop and hook and what part of the country you drive in also plays a part. I run mostly out west so the only thing that slows me down are mountains and 65mph trucks. You can do 4000 miles a week but it can get old. My company expects you to run at least 3000 a week, 3500 is easy.

 

I've done 4400+ once and 4000+ many many times. All on elogs in a 65mph truck (long hauls, mostly drop & hook).

Average weeks are more like 2500, but 4000+ can be legally done when the stars align...

 

There is so much wrong with this entire post. Craigslist ad? 1099? 4000 miles? Paid in cash? You wanna know how I know you'll be posting in the Report A Bad Company in less than a month?

 

years ago, i could do 3300 weekly. only once in a while, if everything was lined up right, and i came off my 8 hours,(8 hour breaks back then), then i could squeeze in an extra trip, taking me just over 4,000 miles. but that just did not happen all too often, as the others have said. everything MUST line up right for it to happen. back then, for me and my co-workers, it was a matter of freight being available and ready to go, when we were ready.

i see where some say that today, and on elogs, it can be done as well...

 

Used to run like that, but it was more of a fill the log book out at the end of the week type thing.

 

I wouldn't do 4000 a week even if I could. I would look and feel like a zombie. My ### would be cramped and my back would probably fatigue so much that I'd just hate myself lol.

 

that is what weekends are for. resting.

i was home every other day, most times. i loved it.