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Originally Posted by Rawlco
Lets see:
Drive 8pm to 10 pm day 1, park for 10 hours
Drive 8am to 10:30 am day 2 finding a wash out bay enroute.
Park at shipper 10:30 am to 8:30 pm getting 10 hour break
log 30 minutes load and pti 8:30 to 9pm
Arrive at stop 1 at 1 am and get some sleep or get unloaded early.
Unload at stop 1 6:45 to 7:30 am. (If they are late getting you unloaded the lateness of stop 2 is not your fault. If they are late take a full 8.5 (split sleeper) hours at stop 1 leaving at 9:30 am and deliver stop2 12:30 to 1pm)
Driving to stop 2 7:30 to 10:30 am
Unload at stop 2 10:30 to 11 am and take your break.
Yup it sucks but that is life in trucking. The next question is how much of this info are you going to have beforehand? I will admit that given only the load appt time and delivery times I would have blown it not leaving enough time for a full break at the shipper.
The alternate would be if you have already waited several hours to get this load info after getting empty. If say you got empty at 5pm on day 1 I would have completed my ten hour break getting started at 3 am heading for the shipper and getting the washout, arriving at the shipper by 8am.
Ok, this is better-- you put a little more thought in...
ok, which route did you take? and where did you find Truck parking at 10pm in route to shipper? you had a 244 mile deadhead..so you ended up somewhere?
driving the 8am to 10:30 am on day 2 looks great-- and is a good plan
the problem with parking at shipper from 10:30- 8:30 is You're not allowed to show OFF DUTY- when at a customer-- you can show IN Sleeper- but whenever you release your brakes- you've interruped that sleeper berth break. And you have to show 15minutes matching your Arrival Call and loaded call.
You can't show getting unloaded at stop#1-early- because you have a 7am appointment( and they don't actually arrive to unload you-- and they take exactly 45 minutes to unload you. you leave at exactly 7:45am -- you drive exactly 3hrs 15minutes(195miles) and arrive at final exactly at 10:45am.--- But that's a very good plan to get to stop as early as possible.
good job! 10:45am-9pm is a good break at shipper