The exciting world of a straight solo

[highway star]

At the request of the Forums Administrator, and since I apparently have nothing better to do today(HELLO PAINESVILLE!!!!), here's a recap of my October.

10/1 Deliver early AM in Shadyside, Oh. Go to Cambridge to wait. Dispatched to Green, Oh(anyone ever heard of that?).

10/2 Deliver in Braselton, Ga. Dispatched to Gainesville, Ga.

10/3 Deliver in Bradford, On. Clock is toasted.

10/5 Hours reset, run empty to Woodhaven. Dispatched to Belleville.

10/8 Deliver in Minot, N.D. Sit for the day, then move to Minneapolis.

10/10 Dispatched to Chanhassen. Pickup tomorrow.

10/12 Deliver in Belvedere, Il. Go to Hampshire to wait. Dispatched to Roselle.

10/15 Deliver in Harrison, N.Y. Go to Darien,Ct. to wait.

10/16 Dispatched to Chester, N.Y.

10/17 Deliver in Garysville, La. Go to Hammond, La. to wait.

10/18 Dispatched to Brookhaven, Ms.

10/20 Deliver in El Paso, Tx.

10/23 Dispatched to El Paso.

10/24 Deliver in Grapevine, Tx.

10/25 Dispatched to Grapevine, Tx.

10/27 Deliver in Taylor, Mi. Go to Woodhaven to wait...

...and wait, and wait...

 

[Dreamer]

Thanks Star! That's exactly what I wanted to see, a solo driver's view for the newbies!

Looks like you had a fairly steady month, how's that new truck doin?



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[RichM]

How did uou make it from Chester NY to Garysville LA in 1 day.

 

[highway star]

I was doing this with the info from my day planner, so I went back and checked my logs. I delivered early AM the 18th, making it a 48 hour run. My bad.

I guess headquarters heard me yelling. My month will be topped off with Romulus, Mi. to Atlanta, Ga.

The truck's doing well, I really like it.

 

[ATeam]

A straight solo, eh? I laugh because one of my brother-in-laws was surfing expediting sites out of curiosity. He asked us why so many people felt the need to identify themselves as straight truck drivers. He wondered if there were gay truck drivers too.

 

[Tennesseahawk]

Do you think there are gays driving straights with a box? Nevermind... don't wanna know.

-True independence can only be gained if you're trully independant.

 

[sixwheeler]

I d be extremely interested in knowing who you re leased on with, getting runs like that as a solo. really interested.

 

[jaminjim]

I am to lazy to figure the loaded miles and DH miles. Care to give those numbers? And do you consider that a very good month mile wise?

 

[highway star]

I'm with C&M.

This is a very good month. One of the best since I've been with them. These numbers don't include the Atlanta run.
1441 mt miles
8391 loaded miles
I consider that an acceptable loaded to mt ratio. I will contrast that with the numbers from August, which was my worst month.
3622 mt
4645 loaded

I took a trip out west and things didn't go well once I got there. I hope to never have a month that bad again.

 

[nightcreacher]

Id hate to see his log book,or better yet,when did he sleep.Hes running more miles overnight than Id want to get cought at,or is he in a van.Wander what he does in his spare time,I know,hes a fisherman

 

[Dreamer]

Steve,
His mileage is very doable if you don't assume he got loaded late at night. 10K in a month is normal miles for OTR, and C&M is known for booking their solo drivers to keep them running.


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[Suds43]

I'm with you nightcreacher.......I don't know how he could log that many miles legally........have to admit though, had some good runs for a solo......

 

[highway star]

I could have easily, and very legally, logged more miles than that. I spent quite a bit of time in states with 70mph speed limits. If you look at the dates you can see that I had quite a bit of down time. El Paso, for example...

 

[x06col]

Ya gotta watch the math wizards math there doggie. they'll get YOU every time, cept when THEY are doing the thing. No sense putting numbers or miles up here unless you choose to get in a math Pi$$in contest.

 

[Suds43]

from your numbers, your averaging about 2400 miles a week, including mt and loaded miles.......I can see where you could do that......easily

 

[Broompilot]

Ok want to talk about boring....

Durham NC to Detroit

Detroit to Durham

Durham to Detroit

Detroit to home than to Durham

Durham to Detroit

REPEAT twenty or so times over and over and over.

I LOVE THE WEST VIRIGNIA TURNPIKE I LOVE WEST VIRIGNIA LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT. no let me come to senses I HATE THE WEST VIGINIA TURNPIKE I HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT..... It is not so much the climbing and decent as the ROUGH ARSE ROADS hate paying for getting the privilege of being POUNDED OVER AN OVER AND OVER AGAIN...

Its still fun but I hate the WVTP.....

 

[x06col]

No Broom. You really hate yourself for hooking a dedicated, samo, samo, bs run that goes round in circles. Thats all.

 

[x06col]

Hey Suds, kinda pi$$n backward from yer other post, eh???? Is there any pre-figgur'in before typ'in? Anymore?

 

[poison]

I don't see where these numbers are a problem to do at all.that is only
what... i'm no math wizard by no means.2400+ miles a week what is hard about that heck even conventional trucking (truck load)average on a real
good week is anywhere from 2800-3000 miles a week.thats average.these numbers that he has are very doable.