They use the movers guide or what ever. The fed says from city a to city b is 750 miles. Every mile over that starts building your percentage of out of route. They don’t tell you how to drive it you can take whatever route you want but try to keep you’re mileage down. I average about 5% out of route for a month.“Out of route”
I’d last 3 days at TMC, IF I even made it through orientation
Had a company driver with a four hour headstart. He went south around Lake Michigan to Iowa. I went north around the lake to Minneapolis. Boss said I added 100 miles going that way. We both left Wednesday and delivered n reloaded Friday. Both took the same routes back. I skunked him at the border Saturday by 15 minutes.
Yeah you could probably give me a 2 day head start. We load it like a freight train and move like turtles. TMC Turtles Moving Cargo.Had a company driver with a four hour headstart. He went south around Lake Michigan to Iowa. I went north around the lake to Minneapolis. Boss said I added 100 miles going that way. We both left Wednesday and delivered n reloaded Friday. Both took the same routes back. I skunked him at the border Saturday by 15 minutes.
Four hour headstart, 200 extra miles and I still made the barn ahead of him
Should give me a bonus for efficiency
Well, that is better than having family in P.A. Amish country, You would have to help BUILD the barn.
I’ll let you in on a secret that’s not really that hard to figure out. I can run the UP then into Wisconsin at 55-80 mph. Unless I hit a funeral procession
I know that’s possible. I can make better time running 40 from Cali to Des Moines than I can running 15 to 70. I slow down in them mountains it takes forever to get back up to speed.I’ll let you in on a secret that’s not really that hard to figure out. I can run the UP then into Wisconsin at 55-80 mph. Unless I hit a funeral procession
There are NO scales between Port Huron MI and Green Bay.
Or I can run Chicago at an average speed of 20 mph for three hours, plus traffic due to snow/traffic/accidents on the interstate
And there’s at least 3 if not 4 scales to get around in MI, IN, IL and WI before Menominee. Plus all the LEOs lurking about to avoid
I can make FASTER time taking the LONGER route
I look at it as an “average per hour” that I need to focus on.
Testify! That was my excuse, other driver must stop for coffee all the time or not keep the left door shut
Make a thermos in the morning. Keep a couple lines to bump on the dash and you're golden. Just don't try to pour or snort in Michigan or Manitoba. You'll just have to trust me on this.
I don’t mind the 62mph. It’s their truck I’ll drive it how they want. What kills me is waiting 4.5 hours for 3 bundles of tube. Or 6.5 hours for sheet steel...when they waste my time, it pisses me off to no end!
Reason numero uno I got off the flats and more specialized the first chance I got. Wasting SO much time at places like that and act like you're destroying their universe showing up there.
I’m better now but I don’t wait well. One place in Minneapolis I got to the point I’d drop the wagon and come back in the morning for it
I’m working my way there
Hey, speed demon. Back in the days of the double nickle, I got my first governed truck. I didn't even know they could govern a truck. I thought it was some truck driver joke.
Really?
Our specialized guys play by different rules than us line haul guys do. We rarely haul anything wider than 10’6”. Because I’m a victim of my own success and they are trying to recruit me to specialized I get to pull some of the big boy loads up to 12’. So at 10’6” I don’t worry at all. It fits thru the pumps with ease. And if they hit that 1” steel plate stack they gonna do more damage to their truck than they will that steel plate.
I’ve done a couple loads at 11’6” and 12’ wide that were shiny stainless steel tanks. Two were dairy tanks two were feed mill tanks. I dropped both to fuel.
