What would you do?

I would find a load going home and take my time off there. 2800 miles seems like a lot of work anyways. Just my opinion.

 

I'd rip out a couple pages so I had a fresh 70 and get the 2800 mile load there a little early if possible and its ready and then head back for the house. 2800 miles is a 2...excuse me 4.5 day run. So I'd plan for that week and then find something rolling back to the house for a couple days and then do it all over again.

 

Overnight envelope to an attorney avoid the scales fuel recipts log pages etc in an overnight envelope addressed to your attorney and seal it. Takes an act of congress for DOT to get that opened. My log from 2 weeks ago showed less than 38 hours. Got a DOT they made copies of my log and I still had that SOB looking legal all week even with the inspection.Sometimes if the moneys right its worth overnighting what you habe back to the office, and showing leaving from home or a restart or something or other to get the darn thing looking right. Then again depends on how much trouble your company is in with DOT I guess.

 

In that case I would take the 900 mile run, you may wait until Wednesday to load and Wednesday morning you get a call saying load has cancelled or not ready and it be Friday getting out of there.

 

Here's my suggestion get yourself up into the $3/mile and above range. Do less make more. When I was young I tried all those juggling acts, did not work out. Changed my approach to the business and things improved. Work smarter not harder.

 

I like this post.

Anyways, restart won't be valid until 0500 Tuesday. Here's the problem: a 2700 mile run is a coast to coast run or a Canadian run. That means you will either have to pick through extremely cheap freight or bounce a thousand miles. $7000 isn't enough to bounce, so you need to have something lined up on the other end to get out. And the 900 miles for $1800 is a Thursday load, not a Tuesday. Now, if the 900 mile run paid $2700 to the truck, that would be a no brainier. But $1800? I'd leave it for Thursday.