How Should A Driver Average His Speed For Figuring Out How Many Hours It Will Take To Get To A Destination If The Governor Is Set At 72 Mph

I have just been hired by a company that has the governor set at 72 mph. How many miles per hour should I figure with when I figure out how many hours It should take me, v. how many long the company is giving me to get there?

I figure 50 mph.after your 30 minute break,rest stops and fuel,50 mpg works great.Youll most likely always be on time.Have to have a buffer for traffic delays.

It should be the number of miles divided by the amount of hours (convert days into hours), then of course figure up how many hours a day you plan on driving. It will seem rather low when you do the division but that is saying you are driving the full 24 hours, which is impossible so that is where the amount of hours in a day comes into play.

1,200/48=25 but 2 days of driving is only 20 hours (if I am wrong sorry) so really it would be 1,200/20 giving you the average of 60mph. Now this does not account for fuel stops and such, but should give you a general idea of the speed you will need to maintain to get there on time. However if you go faster, even by a small amount, you will reduce the time slightly, although factoring in traffic is another issue.

How many companies has it been now Patrick?

Pretty basic question for an "experienced driver".

6string, that was wonderful. I owe you a steak dinner for that laugh you gave me!

For those who don't know. Patrick is the exact opposite of what you want to do in trucking. He went to about 5-6 companies in his first year of driving (just over 2 months per company) and not only that but he joined this site complaining about all of them and how they were out to screw him and everyone over. We tried to talk some sense into him but you know how it goes with the young ones...

Patrick, let's try to actually stay at this current company for a year. I'm very surprise they hired you. Don't mess it up because this could very well be your last chance. I can't wait to hear how they screwed you over yet again and you walked away because you refuse to work for an evil company. Good luck sir. I hope you took everyone's advice from your previous 10 threads.

Pretty basic question for an "experienced driver".

Okay let's see here... I think that formula goes something like this:

miles per hour is: the tire radius divided by pie are squared, then you add the total distance of the trip and divide that by cornbread are round. Or, no, maybe I'm getting confused here... because cornbread is usually square and pies are almost always round, but somehow or another you have got to figure out how far it is that you are going and then if you can figure out what time you need to be there then you can use the tangent or the cosine of the angle of the support columns on the George Washington bridge to divide that distance with the governed speed of the truck and voila, you have got it.

And some people think truck drivers are not very smart! I beg to differ, we've got brains... just sit down at the lunch counter with us and we will prove it to ya!

I'm getting hungry now, I think I will go have some pie.

Pat, what company is it that sets the governor for 72 mph? If the gov is set so high, who pays the speeding ticket?

Also, many cents-per-mile drivers would like to make more money on am 11 hour drive than they are now.

Pretty basic question for an "experienced driver".

Okay let's see here... I think that formula goes something like this:

miles per hour is: the tire radius divided by pie are squared, then you add the total distance of the trip and divide that by cornbread are round. Or, no, maybe I'm getting confused here... because cornbread is usually square and pies are almost always round, but somehow or another you have got to figure out how far it is that you are going and then if you can figure out what time you need to be there then you can use the tangent or the cosine of the angle of the support columns on the George Washington bridge to divide that distance with the governed speed of the truck and voila, you have got it.

And some people think truck drivers are not very smart! I beg to differ, we've got brains... just sit down at the lunch counter with us and we will prove it to ya!

I'm getting hungry now, I think I will go have some pie.

Lmfao. That was a great response

Make sure you are going at least 70 mph when your driving through fresno or they will give you a ticket for driving to slow.