would anyone look over my trip plan assingment for class tell me what u think

I realize it's just an assignment but just for the real world when you actually get out there lol

dont plan on parking at that loves in Nashville that late in the day. Not that you'd want to do much more than fuel and go there place is kinda rough. And pretty limited as far as parking spots lol

plan on way more time than that getting loaded/unloaded and checked in/out at an auto zone DC.

but these are real world things you'll learn once you're out here and not doing an assignment where it just has to look good on paper. Sometimes the hard way lol

 

just some general thoughts.

day 1.

not sure why you'd want to drive for 7 hours then take a break to drive only 2 hours farther. if only planning to go 477 miles in the day i'd split it up better than that. (just me.) and if your planning on taking a 30 minute break at a truck stop and your on e-logs better plan on it taking at least 45 minutes or more once you get off the highway, get parked, take the break, then get back out the ts and back on the road.

day 2.

i don't think i've been able to ever run exactly 11 hours on e-logs. you may be different.

day 3.

not sure why your taking an hour break on duty not driving. even if it's a fuel stop, log time fueling etc and log off duty for the rest of the time your there. again just me.

day 4.

again, not sure about planning on driving for the full 11 hours.


just another thought. once you get out of class and start driving, unless you HAVE to drive it that hard ya may want to back it off some so you don't burn your 70 and then have to sit waiting on hours to catch back up. and even though you may actually spend 30 mins or more on that pre/post trip, i'd log it as 15 minutes. (7 days driving x 30 min pre-trip = 210 mins or 3.5 hours that week logged on duty. 15 min pre-trip x 7 days driving = 105 minutes or 1.75 hours logged on duty saving you an hour and 45 minutes on your 70 hour week. double that if your logging both your pre and post trips.)

last of all I'M A ROOKIE so take it for what it's worth.

and thanks dutchieinquebec for deciphering it.

teq.

 

Day 1, if you come on duty at 7am you'll need to break for 30 before 3pm if you are on duty at Auto zone and while fuelling.

I'd go sleeper while loading at Auto zone, though not technically legal?

 

Yeah day one is weird ... 7 hours to go 335 miles. Should be about 5.5 to 6. Then only 2 hours to roll 140 miles.

Side note ... pro tip for E logs ... go off duty as soon as you stop at the top of the ramp. Then slow down to under 5 mph pulling into the t/s and go off duty again. As long as you didn't take 5 minutes to go from the ramp to the t/s you will recover the time from the ramp to the t/s as off duty and as long as you stay out of 5th gear and don't exceed 17mph you should stay off duty from that point ... same thing when coming into fuel. Go off duty and don't start fueling/log fueling until after 5 minutes of off duty ... learn to nick 5 minutes here and 5 minutes there ... it can make a difference over the course of the week.

 

Didn't read over it but a word of caution. If it's anything like my assignment when I was back in school, watch for the (too) low overpass on the route. This was deliberate on the teacher's behalf regarding the most obvious route on a part of our assignment and only one of us caught it. Yea, I was the one who caught it in the class but I fudged on another area regarding the logbook where I forgot to log a pre-trip and it prevented me from acing the assignment. Good luck.

 

The taking 30 minutes on a pre-trip is too much time. 15 minutes max. Of course if you are a company driver then you do a RIRO pre-trip. If the truck rolled in, it will roll out. If you run out of oil, you can always find another job.

 

Then you'd better learn. Most load assignments come across in military time.