>My husband and I find it best to run the 10 hours, I drive
>nights and he takes days but we do adjust it for the shorter
>loads.
>Let's say we are sitting for a day and we get offered a 700
>mile run and we are 60 miles out. Jim will drive to the p/u
>and then he will run another 5-6 hours, then I will drive
>the rest of the way. That way we are keeping our hours
>pretty close and one person is not doing most of the
>driving.
>Plus, we do not have set times that we run. It all depends
>on when we start our day and how tired we are. Since I drive
>night shift - even when we are sitting - I usually don't go
>to bed before 0300 so I sleep in in the mornings. Where Jim
>goes to bed by 1100 and is up at the crack of dawn. If we
>get a load that picks up late in the afternoon, Jim will
>drive to the pick up and usually drive for a couple of
>hours, while I nap. Then I get up and run my 10. By that
>time, Jim is well rested and ready to take back over.
>For us that works, I am a night owl to begin with and love
>driving the night shift - not so much in the winter time
>though.
>Hope this helps.
thats how me and the old lead driver did things he loved night driving which i hated
but there were times that it didnt end up doing that i drove nights him days
but it always seemed to me one sometimes would have more drive time than other cause of waiting which it didnt bother us
but it generally worked out the best
i would beat myself up if i didnt get a certain amount of miles drove
on my shift cause i felt i was not doing my job if i didnt get enough miles
but weather,rush hour,construction,accidents sometimes played the part on it
got shut down on a highway in va one night due to a flat bed losing his load and was about 4 hours into drive and sat for almost 5 hours
so i couldnt get much driving in
keep safe everyone
