How many miles are in your 40 hour week

[Styleten]

I'd like to get some numbers to make my own imaginary averages so i turn to you folks here on the forum for information.
Please take a moment to chime in with some experience.

[jd112488]

what is a 40 hour week??

[Sealord]

The duration of a work week for drivers is either 60 or 70 hours (lines 3 and 4). In good times, it's not unusual to run more the 3000 miles in a 70 hour (8 days) week. BOL

[Jumbo]

How are imaginary numbers going to help you? Our jobs involve flats, vans, tanks, and dumptrucks as well as a mix of local, regional, dedicated and otr drivers. All you are going to get is an imaginary number.

[Useless]

How are imaginary numbers going to help you? Our jobs involve flats, vans, tanks, and dump trucks as well as a mix of local, regional, dedicated and otr drivers. All you are going to get is an imaginary number.

:roll: :roll:

Let's help this guy out, Jumbo!!

He wants imaginary miles in an imaginary week so that he can get his imaginary CDL, get an imaginary job, and begin his imaginary career as an imaginary driver!!

Helllllooooooo??

[Fredog]

what is a 40 hour week??

1 1/2 days

[repete]

OK, on the serouyis side , very few trucking jobs are 40 hrs a week and the one's that are probobly are out of your reach for a while due to experince. I drive about 53hrs a week then add in about 4 hrs to unload about 1hr to fuel at least 1.25 for pretrip ect. I wouldn't know what to do if I only worked 40hrs

[Jackrabbit379]

I'm a local driver, so I probably don't count, but I work around 46-50 hours a week. I run 2,000 miles a week.

[Useless]

I'm a local driver, so I probably don't count, but I work around 46-50 hours a week. I run 2,000 miles a week.

I'm an imaginary local driver, so I imagine that I do count. I drive an imaginary 2010 KW379. I haul Haz-Mat ping-pong balls, and I drive an imaginary 3500 miles each week, in a 32 hour week, at $38. per hour, + $2.74 cents per imaginary mile + expenses, including the cost of lot lizards!!

Were it not for SteveBooth, I would still be wasting my life away in the real estate business and the energy industry.

[Mackman]

I drive a rock bucket and i will do around 700-1,000 miles in a week. It depends on alot. Some days i only go 70miles. If there is alot of waiting to get unloaded at the job site. Sometime i have to wait 2hours or more at the blacktop plant to get a load.

[belpre122]

"All the coolie carriers suck. Log 70 (hours), work 80-100 (hours), paid for 50 (hours)." - the Great ColdFrostyMug

Yep! That pretty much is a wrap on OTR truck driving............ All boiled down to one sentence. Thanks CFM!:bow: You are a lifesaver!!!!!:lol:

generally for around 25 CPM.......just saying

[repete]

"All the coolie carriers suck. Log 70 (hours), work 80-100 (hours), paid for 50 (hours)." - the Great ColdFrostyMug

Yep! That pretty much is a wrap on OTR truck driving............ All boiled down to one sentence. Thanks CFM!:bow: You are a lifesaver!!!!!:lol:

generally for around 25 CPM.......just saying


Belpre what were sleeping? I figured you'd jump on this one sooner than this

[repete]

I'm an imaginary local driver, so I imagine that I do count. I drive an imaginary 2010 KW379. I haul Haz-Mat ping-pong balls, and I drive an imaginary 3500 miles each week, in a 32 hour week, at $38. per hour, + $2.74 cents per imaginary mile + expenses, including the cost of lot lizards!!

Were it not for SteveBooth, I would still be wasting my life away in the real estate business and the energy industry.

You don't happen to have a spare imaginary job app do you?

[Useless]

I drive a rock bucket and i will do around 700-1,000 miles in a week. It depends on alot. Some days i only go 70miles. If there is alot of waiting to get unloaded at the job site. Sometime i have to wait 2hours or more at the blacktop plant to get a load.

Driving a rock bucket tends to be a "hurry up and wait" business. Over the past 18 months, those guys around here have been dropping like flies.

[Mackman]

Driving a rock bucket tends to be a "hurry up and wait" business. Over the past 18 months, those guys around here have been dropping like flies.



Yea work is real slow here an we are going into winter:thumbsdown: so that doesnt help. O well it comes with the job.

[belpre122]

Belpre what were sleeping? I figured you'd jump on this one sooner than this

Just climbed out of my igloo for a moment repete! LOL

Give the old man a break, it's friggin 44 degrees here!

[Malaki86]

40 hour week? Does that mean I'm on overtime now?

[Hawkjr]

i was interviewed for an forty hour a week job three times.. And if not mistaking none of those jobs paid over 40,000 a year... i think one was right around 30K the other two was 36 to 38!! All three driving daycabs!!

[Useless]

You don't happen to have a spare imaginary job app do you?

I imagine I could get you one, but I don't imagine it would do you any good, Repete!! I imagine the reason it pays so well is because I handle HazMat ping-pong balls and secret classified government freight. I imagine that I got this job because of my Top Secret Security Clearance that I got back when I was a Navy SEAL while serving in the US Army in Vietnam.

[belpre122]

I imagine I could get you one, but I don't imagine it would do you any good, Repete!! I imagine the reason it pays so well is because I handle HazMat ping-pong balls and secret classified government freight. I imagine that I got this job because of my Top Secret Security Clearance that I got back when I was a Navy SEAL while serving in the US Army in Vietnam.

Heh heh.....Waaaayyyyyy toooooooo many of the apologist/hero types languishing around aren't there Useless?

LOL Seems to me that not a single person in the Armed Forces ever served as a REMF....................

They're all mostly full of ****. They degrade those who took the plunge and served (serve) as special forces elements of the US military.

They have hidden behind anonymity (supposed) because of the inherent problems/delay with obtaining military records from the US Government. Not much longer though.....................ARPERCEN (Army Personel Center St. Louis) and the other branches to follow will be fully automated/digitized and completely online. Asswipe that served as a mail clerk in Vietnam and claims to have "wiped out everthing on the Ho Chi Minh Trail"................will be exposed for the asswipe that he/she is.

Thus, Useless.................maybe we will be blessed with hearing less of the US Navy SEALS/ARMY Delta Force/Air Force Para rescue BULL**** stories.

They're a dime a dozen.

[Glad Hand]

I'd like to get some numbers to make my own imaginary averages so i turn to you folks here on the forum for information.
Please take a moment to chime in with some experience.

Uhm....this is the trucking industry. It's not a 9 to 5 job where when you clock out, you go home to the wife and kids afterwards. You eat, sleep, and live in your truck and shower in truck stops and company terminals. Personally, I generally work as many hours as I'm lawfully allowed to work and drive as many miles as I legally can during that time allotted.

[Useless]

Heh heh.....Waaaayyyyyy toooooooo many of the apologist/hero types languishing around aren't there Useless?

LOL Seems to me that not a single person in the Armed Forces ever served as a REMF....................

They're all mostly full of ****. They degrade those who took the plunge and served (serve) as special forces elements of the US military.

They have hidden behind anonymity (supposed) because of the inherent problems/delay with obtaining military records from the US Government. Not much longer though.....................ARPERCEN (Army Personel Center St. Louis) and the other branches to follow will be fully automated/digitized and completely online. Asswipe that served as a mail clerk in Vietnam and claims to have "wiped out everthing on the Ho Chi Minh Trail"................will be exposed for the asswipe that he/she is.

Thus, Useless.................maybe we will be blessed with hearing less of the US Navy SEALS/ARMY Delta Force/Air Force Para rescue BULL**** stories.

They're a dime a dozen.

I actually knew a driver who was in Special Forces in Vietnam...... had a bunch of those "Nam" stories to tell.... only problem was that he was only a little over a year older than me, and U.S. involvement in Vietnam ended when I was 14 y/o!!

[Mackman]

I actually knew a driver who was in Special Forces in Vietnam...... had a bunch of those "Nam" stories to tell.... only problem was that he was only a little over a year older than me, and U.S. involvement in Vietnam ended when I was 14 y/o!!

You must have been sitting at the counter

[Jumbo]

If you guys dont like my stories then go sit somewhere else. So anyway I was going down this tunnel.................

[Fredog]

Uhm....this is the trucking industry. It's not a 9 to 5 job where when you clock out, you go home to the wife and kids afterwards. You eat, sleep, and live in your truck and shower in truck stops and company terminals. Personally, I generally work as many hours as I'm lawfully allowed to work and drive as many miles as I legally can during that time allotted.

Personally, I generally work as many hours as I'm lawfully allowed to work and drive as many miles as I legally can during that time allotted.

and you call yourself a truck driver!!:lol2::lol2:

[Jackrabbit379]

I'm an imaginary local driver, so I imagine that I do count. I drive an imaginary 2010 KW379. I haul Haz-Mat ping-pong balls, and I drive an imaginary 3500 miles each week, in a 32 hour week, at $38. per hour, + $2.74 cents per imaginary mile + expenses, including the cost of lot lizards!!

Including what?!? :hellno:


OK. Here is a dumb question. I aint no mongaloid, and I aint no rookie, but what are Ping-Pong balls?

[golfhobo]

OK. Here is a dumb question. I aint no mongaloid, and I aint no rookie, but what are Ping-Pong balls?

They are what separates male Ping-Pongs from female ones! :lol2::smokin:

[Sealord]

OK. Here is a dumb question. I aint no mongaloid, and I aint no rookie, but what are Ping-Pong balls?

They are what separates male Ping-Pongs from female ones!

LOL! Good one, golfhobo. BOL

[Jackrabbit379]

They are what separates male Ping-Pongs from female ones! :lol2::smokin:

:eek1: :rofl:

That's a good one, hobo. 10-4.

[belpre122]

I actually knew a driver who was in Special Forces in Vietnam...... had a bunch of those "Nam" stories to tell.... only problem was that he was only a little over a year older than me, and U.S. involvement in Vietnam ended when I was 14 y/o!!

Happens all the time Useless. I can't tell you how many times I've sufferred through similar tales.:zzz::zzz::zzz::zzz::zzz::zzz::zzz::zzz::zzz ::zzz::zzz::zzz::zzz::zzz::zzz:

Is it just me? Or does it appear that the Armed Forces community must have some sort of secret program whereas:

You separate from the military special forces and go straight to coolie carrier OTR truck driving?:moon:

I dunno. Must be something going on here. :confused:

[zipy46]

I went about 2400 miles last week in 46.5 hrs

[repete]

I imagine I could get you one, but I don't imagine it would do you any good, Repete!! I imagine the reason it pays so well is because I handle HazMat ping-pong balls and secret classified government freight. I imagine that I got this job because of my Top Secret Security Clearance that I got back when I was a Navy SEAL while serving in the US Army in Vietnam.

sounds right up my ally Back in Nam I used to haul the tunnels for closer examenation after you seals dug em out. I bet we even ran into each other!!

[Useless]

OK. Here is a dumb question. I aint no mongaloid, and I aint no rookie, but what are Ping-Pong balls?

:hellno: :hellno:

Don't ask, Jackrabbit379...

I'm severely dyslexic, and with my 007 Intelligence Classification, if I told you, then I'd have to KILL myself!!

:blazin:

[BigDiesel]

I'd like to get some numbers to make my own imaginary averages so i turn to you folks here on the forum for information.
Please take a moment to chime in with some experience.

From the house to the office/yard is 22 miles roundtrip x 5 = 110 miles...:thumbsup:

[Useless]

sounds right up my ally Back in Nam I used to haul the tunnels for closer examenation after you seals dug em out. I bet we even ran into each other!!

So, REPETE;

Was that YOU I was talking to at the Petro Coffee Counter??

:eat: :bs: :usa: :bs: :cheers:

[Jackrabbit379]

:hellno: :hellno:

Don't ask, Jackrabbit379...

I'm severely dyslexic, and with my 007 Intelligence Classification, if I told you, then I'd have to KILL myself!!

:blazin:

:rofl: :thumbsup:

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[Part Time Dweller]

Uhm....this is the trucking industry. It's not a 9 to 5 job where when you clock out, you go home to the wife and kids afterwards. You eat, sleep, and live in your truck and shower in truck stops and company terminals. Personally, I generally work as many hours as I'm lawfully allowed to work and drive as many miles as I legally can during that time allotted.

Maybe for you it isn't.:lol2:

I personally don't care how many miles I drive per week, since I don't get paid by that mileage scam. I care more about hours per week, usually between 40-60.

[Double R]

~1200 miles a week

47-53 hours

[freebirdrfd]

about 1,000 miles a week. 55-60 hours work week

[wanderingson]

what is a 40 hour week??

That is an office job!

There are very few 40 hr work weeks in trucking, even if you drive local, which I do. I average 50-55 hrs a week, Monday thru Friday, about 1500 miles, pulling vans and flats.

I love being home every night, OTR gets old after awhile.

[rkeck]

I'll typically "fudge" out 3 to 5 hours a week of on-duty time ... 15 minutes here, a half hour there ... never know if you'll need those "extra" hours towards the end of your 70 hour or not.

[geeshock]

OK, on the serouyis side , very few trucking jobs are 40 hrs a week and the one's that are probobly are out of your reach for a while due to experince. I drive about 53hrs a week then add in about 4 hrs to unload about 1hr to fuel at least 1.25 for pretrip ect. I wouldn't know what to do if I only worked 40hrs

I'm local now and still don't know what a 40 hour week looks like, lol. One trip out and back is 48 hours for me.

[Kranky]

How many miles are in your 40 hour week


I'm guaranteed 42.5 hrs per week, but most times exceed that, sometimes up to 60 or more hours per week.

Time and a half after 8 / 40

Double time on Sunday (We only work Sunday if there's a snow or ice storm).

Miles? Sometimes my only "miles" are driving from home to work and back again 3.5 miles each way(when I'm working in the shop).

Other times if the boss has me moving equipment or driving a dump truck I may get 500 to 1000 miles in a week, but that's immaterial since I'm paid by the hour.

.

[Mackman]

Monday to Firday i have 789miles. I set my trip odometer Monday morning to see. About 43 hours.

I gross 801.00 with the miles i ran that works out too 1.01 a mile not too bad lol

[Jay B]

About 125 miles per week. That includes driving to the gym (company paid membership) on the way home from work 4 days per week. Comes out to about 11 dollars per mile.