Ok what are the most miles you ever did straight? I'm not saying literally straight without stopping at all, bathroom and fuel stops are ok but not stopping for a couple hours to eat at the buffet or take a nap

Now I KNOW the HOS advocates will get their panties in a bunch on this topic!

Me personally, Eloy, AZ to Austin, TX, started at 11am and got there at 4am, 970 miles. Not that I like doing that, I do try to keep to HOS as much as possible, but sometimes you do what you need to do.

 

amarillo-detroit........... started at 7am on a sunday morning...got to Monroe, MI about 10am monday morning........delivered,,,,but then i picked up in detroit and drove to asheville NC, then promptly fell out!

 

I know somebody is going to call BS, but whatever. Drove from the port of Baltimore to Denver Co., dropped off the load of cars, then went to a motel and took a 34 hour restart. Left sunday morning in Baltimore and dropped Monday afternoon. Think I ran out of hours about when I hit Ohio. Made $1800 off that one load, as a company driver, but then had to deadhead all the way to South Carolina.

 

Gallup,NM to Owosso,MI. One of the besy convoy's I ever got hooked up with that night.

 

makes the time almost fly by and keeps you awake........:thumbsup:

 

There’s nothing like an old-fashioned straight-through damn-the-HOS blitz!

Wells, NV to Grand Island, NE
Stockton, CA to Las Cruces, NM
Las Cruces to Longview, TX

Shreveport to four deliveries in Orlando, then deadhead to Tampa for a live load. Total burnout. Nowhere near legal, of course. Definitely running harder, not smarter. Irresponsible. Stupid, actually. But not late.

The company was always on us to “Log it legal,” but dispatched like that just meant “Don’t be late.” They handed out extra log books like there was no tomorrow.

It used to be a lot easier to get away with this stuff. No electronic tracking. You could count on crossing Nevada, Texas, Nebraska and Iowa without ever crossing a scale and most states just had their Ports open once in awhile. FMCSA/DOT/OMC looked the other way until an accident triggered an audit. Then it was miniscule fines and a slap on the wrist and back to business as usual.

 

Total truck driver story here, but I was running across the Ohio Turnpike a while ago and I was running pretty good at 62-63mph when the speed limit was 55mph, well I get my doors dusted and when I finally could pull out in the left lane and fall in line I was truck #23 it was just crazy, never moved out of the left lane all the way across probably had 30 or more trucks when we hit the Indiana line running mostly 70+ the whole way......I wish it would've happen now in the days of camera video phones because not too many believe that story.

Truck drivers can be some of the funniest SOB's in the world when they want to be.

 

I refuse to answer on grounds that it may incriminate me.

But more than the OP.

 

:rofl:

 

started at the flying j in pecos, tx and drove all the way to the loves in minden, la. all without stopping for anything. the total was something like 646 miles. did it in 11hrs. i left pecos at about 1630 MST and got to minden at about 0330 MST.

in my car, i went from fresno, california to eloy, az in one shot. by the time i stopped for fuel, the car was gasping for some unleaded. i barely made it. then, it was off to as far as i could go until i became too tired to continue. i made it to hel paso.