What does running hard mean to you?

To a lot of drivers "running hard" means that a logbook is no impediment to getting a load to a customer. You make the miles fit the log. To me it means not hanging around the truckstop telling war stories or having a 2 hour lunch. Get up, take a shower and have breakfast then run, eat a short lunch and run till 10 hours are off the log and shut down. Repeat every day until you run out of hours. Get the load to the customer on time, no excuses and don't whine because it goes somewhere you don't want to go.

 

I ran several 4k weeks when I was in a flatbed and twice ran over 16,000 in a month. No I did not say legal. I came to my senses and stopped that craziness although I will say that I never got less than 8hrs of sleep every night and still do. I just ran 7 days a week.

 

keep the left door shut and get the job done what ever the load requires, if you have to run illegal to get it done some one doesn't know how to figer log books and such... if the shipper takes too long to load you that is not your fault.

if you want to stop at every truck stop the money won't be great and DOT will catch up to you. count on it

 

Running Hard to me means....Getting the load delivered on time even if you have to drive 20 hours in a day to do it.

Hardest I ever ran I only got 9 hours of sleep for the week. Glad I only did that once...slept for 2 whole days afterward.

 

Same to me if it's an appt. Other than that, I take my time.
The hardest I've EVER run was 19 hours straight, 3 hours at the drop off, 5 to sleep until dispatch got in. That was over 7 years ago and I NEVER did it again.

 

Different things to different people. If you don't need to reset on a regular basis you're not doing it.

 

I've almost forgotten what running hard was but it was running an International cabover with spring suspension , no A/C or P/S running frozen chicken from AR to Denver then over to Greely to get a Monfort load to Buffalo , NY then whatever back to AR to do it again. When you hauled for Monfort you ran hard .

 

To me it means keeping the left door shut and not hanging out in the T/S all day. I'm out here to make money nothing more nothing less. I run my hours until I have none and then do it all over again.

 

I did one of my 34 resets last weekend, and agreed. If you don't reset regularly...
TRUCKING: YOUR DOING IT OH SO WRONG.

I run my hours to the ground, take a 10 or 34, and do it again. I'm just like any other(MOST other) driver. Run it til you can't go.

 

Running hard to me means if I know I am going to be way early for an appointment than its time to find outif I can deliver early and get to the next run or drop in a drop yard and move on...not "cool,I am a day early where is te nearest casino?"