There is no average miles in a day. You drive as many miles as you can based on your pickup and delivery schedule, the speed limits of the areas you are driving in, what your truck is governed at (most company trucks are set somewhere between 65 and 70 mph) and how many hours you have available to drive on your Hours of Service.
The short version of the HOS:
For every 10 hour break you can drive
Up to 11 hours, however after the 14th hour since coming on duty you may not drive.
You may not drive after accumulating 70 or more hours in any 8 day period, or 60 hours in 7 days if this is what your company uses.
After having at least 34 consecutive hours off the 60 or 70 hour rule is reset.
It seems that every year the fines and other penalties for violating the HOS, as well as operating unsafe equipment, running overweight, etc are becoming stiffer and stiffer. Fines of several hundred dollars are common for operating over the HOS, fines of a thousand dollars or more are not unheard of for running overweight or operating unsafe equipment, and fines of several thousand dollars are also common if caught falsifying your log books. In addition to this some states have made some of these offenses moving violations and other states are considering it.
Another thing that has changed in the last few years is that if you hold a CDL you can no longer attend driving school/traffic class to have convictions erased from your record and there is no longer any distinction at all between what you do in your own car and what you do in a CMV other than some of the penalties are worse in a CMV.
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