8 Hours Vs Running 11 ?

Going to be leaving for solo soon, wanted to know what u guys thought about running 11 everyday vs 8. Is there a difference?

The difference is three hours...

Seriously, that is going to be the least of your concerns. Your loads will dictate what you do as a rookie. Your main focus should be safely delivering on time for your first three months. As long as your focus is on safely delivering on time you will begin to develop a feel for how you like to manage your time.

Everyone has their own preferences on this, and you may discover that your driver manager prefers you run loads the way they like. That relationship is critical to your success, so let them help you develop as a driver if they are inclined that way. If you can really work together as a team your life as a driver will be all the better.

If you run 11 hours a day, you will eat up your 70 hour clock before your eight days are up, and you will find yourself sitting. Usually 8-9 hours of driving a day will get a decent amount of miles covered and preserve your clock so that you don't need a 34 hour reset.

If you run 11 hours a day, you will eat up your 70 hour clock before your eight days are up, and you will find yourself sitting. Usually 8-9 hours of driving a day will get a decent amount of miles covered and preserve your clock so that you don't need a 34 hour reset.

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There is of course - two schools of thought on this.

1 - Run your butt off, and take a reset when you need it.

2 - Run a max of 9.5 hours a day (between On Duty/Driving and not Driving) - that way you never kill your 70 hour clock and require a reset.

2A - Actually a 3rd school of thought that says run your clock up to 10 hours EVERY DAY - and then when you start getting into recaps - you'll get 10 hours back every day.

Or a combination thereof.

Rick

Going to be leaving for solo soon, wanted to know what u guys thought about running 11 everyday vs 8. Is there a difference?

Not really. But do you want to earn 3hr x 60mph x $0.38 = $68 more dollars that day?

Mostly it's up to what you can handle. You might have to get used to that much time behind the wheel in one day.

I often plan to use the last hour (after hour #10 of driving) to get to my parking spot for the night. The 8 hour mark is basically the maximum you can drive before you take a mandatory 30 minute break.

When possible I try to run 10 hours, but that usually requires some good trip planning and hoping weather and traffic cooperates. Thats just me though.

Your loads will dictate your schedule, I ran and ran with the doors closed, and never ran into any issues, I had great recaps, and I never ran into troubles, usually found I was early enough and got a reset snuck into it also. If you use good time management, you should hardly ever run into clock issues. The 10hr rule is good if you can keep it going, mostly all depends on load times getting into shippers and receivers. There will be different variables that you will not be able to plan for, it comes with the job. Just be safe and dont overdo it especially if you are not conditioned for it.

I don't like to drive 11 hours you start to get fatigued, but I don't like to run 8 hours either, to much dead time I love the 8 and 2 split. But more in line with your questing, in my experience it makes very little differns in a week weather I run out my 70 or not. Old school is right on with the load will dictate how you run, get them in on time some days you might do 13 hours of running in a day others you might run 6 hours, (24 hour as in 0001 to 2359) flexibility is key in this job. I don't plan how I am going to run unless I have a nice 3500 mile run. Most of my runs are 300 to 700 miles long, most of them are next day deliveries.