Your longest day

I don't think its really the miles..as you pointed out you can do 750 on a legal e-log.
Its the hours..picking up- trucking-delivering-then reloading on other side of town and trying to get back out of the city to rest can add up to ALOT of hours total.
But to drive 6-7 or even 800miles?..No big deal to that.(my opinion)
I mean if you start out early enough you can have 750 done at be parked by 5pm for dinner.

Try doing 18-20-25 hours on duty and we will talk.

 

Used to run Clearfield UT to E Providence RI 2450 miles a little over 2 days. I was doing between 17-20k miles a month

 

I groaned out of exhaustion just reading that.

 

Started sunday night 15 november at 9pm, picked up a trailer went to the bakery. Dispatch from 10 pm to 6 am. That was the plan... But one guy called in sick so I had to do his run.
At 6 am 16 november Drop and hook 75 km.
7:30 am 826 km run with 5 stops to do.

Done at 9:30 pm.

Im done with this crap

 

Wore me out just writing it

 

Joplin, MO to El Paso, TX because my future ex wife pissed me off so much I was bound and determined to get home and tell that ##### off.

I got home and went to sleep on the couch.

 

Black Dog?

 

The standard for coach drivers is to be paid X amount a day which pays you to drive up to X miles a day. When I started driving in the 80s I was paid $150 to drive up to 500 miles a day. Anything over 500 was called an 'overdrive' and was double pay. Anything over 700 miles was a 'double' overdrive and another days pay. The next was 800 and we weren't supposed to drive more than that a day but since we really weren't regulated we regularly drove over 1,000 miles. Every time you crossed an overdrive mark you would hear somebody say 'cha ching!" on the CB. When I quit the road in 2004 the pay was $200 a day for up to 450 miles, and overdrives were set at 600, 700, and 750. Anything from 800 and up was supposed to require a relief driver, but since at that time I was driving for an artist who owned his own bus I was still doing the long drives but being paid very well for it.

 

Used to run Elizabethtown, ky to Laredo, Texas 1250m, up one day, back the next!