Years ago if this guy ran his logs showing an average of 70mph and went into a scale with the DOT in there they would say to him-"OK-Show ME how you did it" and then get in the truck with him. :shock:

 

I'm working on forgiving. :x

 

so let me see if I've got this right-You're Both in the truck and passing the computer back and forth between you to post this? :roll:

 

Actually we have our own laptops but Bush Bunny has seem to latch onto my aircard. (She will probably throw that at me now.) She was making a point on her last post - got it won't do that again. ops: I have gone back in and retracted the last statement. I wonder why I was getting the green eye glare when I stopped for lunch. I think I'll get back to driving I stay out of trouble better when I'm behind the wheel. :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

Well one more hijack. Its nice to know you are not just a figment of her imagination Mad Dog. Now onto the plane thing. Did you ever watch the A-Team when it was on tv. If so you know were i am going with this. :wink:

 

[quote="yoopr"]you can only go over IF where you were headed was the Next SAFEST place to pull over in Extreme conditions.

This is the way I have always interpreted the law. I drove thru a blizzard in Texas back aways, and I was not allowed off the highway because the State police had the exit ramps blocked. I was out of hours, but had no choice but to keep on driving until I was out of the storm.
Nothing was ever said to me other why? I explained it to the safety director and never heard another word. You can drive over the allotted time in the event of an emergency. They will even let you do it if your wife is having a baby!!! I know, I did it!

 

You're not following me. When I'm driving, I'm on line 3. No one can "see" my log is ahead of me or behind me.

When I'm at a truck stop or terminal and shut down for my break, I do my mph calculation, and realize I *could* have gotten there an hour earlier if things hadn't gotten fubar'd (weather, traffic or whatever), I log that I got there an hour earlier.

There's no way to get caught unless a DOT office is actually watching you complete your log after watching you park.

This is *not* to extend my 11 or 14 hours, but to not burn up my 70.

I don't do the mph calculation the way the other d00d said. My company *requires* us to log at 5 mph lower than the speed limit up to a maximum of 62. So... if I went through a state with a speed limit of IA, IL, IN and OH (assuming turnpike in OH)... that's speed limits of 70, 55, 65 and 65... or the average of 62, 50, 60 and 60, which is 58.

When driving conditions are good, I can end up *ahead* of my log cause my company wants me to log below the speed limit. In those cases, I take an extra half hour or more at a rest area to let my log catch up with me.

Not burning up my 70 is more important than the 11 or 14 to me. I don't particularly *want* to drive more than 11 hours or extend my day beyond 14. If I split sleeper berth, it's because of an inconvenient shipping time... like maybe I drive to the consignee in 11 hours within a 14-hour day, go to sleep for 4 hours, wake up and unload, then finish up my break.

But on my log, I always spend 15 minutes on line 4 at a shipper or consignee, taking the rest as off-duty or sleeper time. This is generally *true* as well as I'm watching an episode of the Simpsons or napping if being loaded or unloaded.

 

No, sorry not much of a TV watcher. I'm almost afraid to ask where you are going with this. :?

 

The A-Team was a show back in the 80s. Anyhow it had a character played by Mr T Picture below. Who was scared to death to fly. So everytime the needed to hop on a plane they slipped him a mickey.

 

Oh me, oh my! :shock: No, not going down that road again. She can stay right where she is - in the truck. :wink: Finally, have found ourselves on the eastside of the river - actually as an ego boaster I let her drive it over. After our delivery in NC if we have nothing going back home - I'm going to dead head back to Indiana. Advised our dispatcher tonight, we better go North or don't even dispatch. No more, she has been out long enough.