Avg. speed per trip?
 

What is your avg. mph per trip?

Re: Avg. speed per trip?
 

Mine is 20 mph but I include all time for the trip. Works out to be $6.40 per hour. This rate is based on .32 cpm.

Depends on where your driving as to what your average is. Most companies figure it at 50 mph when setting delivery times. If your doing mountains all day, it will be lower, if your running in the midwest, it's all flat and the hammer is down, so it will be faster. How much stopping are you doing during the run will also factor into your average.

It also depends on what the truck is governed at.

it depends on how much you open the left door

that's right...heaven forbid you stop to take a 15 min break,or call for directions, check your equipment, get some fuel, snow storm's , got in traffic jams, get pulled over for a level 1 inspection or broken down...etc.

who pi$$ed in your wheaties today.....? i stand by my statement the driver keeping the left door closed will up your avg. speed, i didn't say not to do the above BUT you also don't need to stop every hour and take a break either.

chicago heights, il. to west sacramento, ca. (fedex) stopping for breaks, fueling, driver changes, hasmat tire checks, 2056 miles and we will do it in 41 hr's thats a 50 mph avg. and yes that did include a level 1 (utah port of entry) and a flat trailer tire on the side if the road at (point of rocks, wy) at 0300.

things like snow, ice, traffic jams you can't control BUT how offen you stop and how long you take a break you can control. most days in 12hr i have 10.5-10.75 on line 3 and she drivers the same way that is how we run 1100-1200 miles per day. if we want to goof off at a truck stop we do it later when we don't have a load.

Teaming has its advantages that for sure... glad your makin some miles. But 2 people in an 8 foot box is not for me...

flood is right, yah have to keep the left door closed. I heavey haul so in most states am limited to 1/2 before sunrise to 1/2 after sunset but still back East I can get 550 a day and West I can squeeze more. (Ah, that's what my log shows, not what actualy happens :))
Truck and keep the drivers door shut !!!!

Great advice....I wonder why I never thought of that.

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The month of March I averaged 58 mph. Not many people can do that in a 66 mph truck. But the only time I ever open the left door is to get fuel.
Run hard now while you are young. Then when you get older you can take it easy.

Go ahead all you naysayers call me a liar...but until you have run with me you wouldn't understand.

Dollar, I prolly don't want to know the answer but I will ask anyways, what do you do about the bathroom? Hold it for 11 hours or more?

I always figure a trip based on 50 mph. This gives me time for bathroom breaks and lunch. I drive a 63 mph truck.

I really don't understand why everyone has to tinkle so much. I go to the bathroom in the morning and at night. The rest of the day is spent driving non stop unless I fuel or take a 10hr break. I refuse to pee in a bottle so I have myself set on a routine of morning/night bathroom visits. The rest of the day the left door is closed and I'm truckin'!

I get a 24oz coffee at the beginning of my shift. I have to stop and "tinkle" about 2-3 hrs later. After that, I SIP soda for the rest of the day and generally don't have to "go" again. But, I STILL stop at least one more time to check my load and/or reefer temp and to exercise my LEGS.

Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) is a REAL threat to long haul truckers. By the estimates in http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2004/604_vein.html, and my calculations, between 1 and 2 thousand truckers probably get DVT every year, and between 1 and 2 hundred of them will DIE as a result. I don't plan on being ONE of them, and I wish some of you would take precautions as well.

Getting sleepy and wrecking your truck is another danger of "keeping the left door closed."

I didn't mean i have to go a lot. I like to get out and walk around. I'm getting old and my legs hurt if i don't stop to walk and the truck i drive doesn't have the most comfy seat. anyway I still get to my appointment time on time every day. I'm regional so i don't get those multiday trips.