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Originally Posted by Windwalker
59 divided by 24 = 2.5483 days
But, she is also right, even without using the 10 hour breaks.
27.78 or 28 divided by 11 hours = 2.54545454 days.
Now, if he's ambitious, he can drive 11 hours, plus the pretrip and post trip and fueling... 11.75/day + 10 hour break, = 21.75 hours. Round that off to 22. Gives him another 2 hours each day. He could plan on getting there as much as 4 hours earlier. Or spend 4 hours waiting in traffic to get through road construction.
Sorry, WW: 28 driving hours divided by 11 hours = 2.5454545454
DRIVING WINDOWS (or 11 hour SHIFTS.) With fuel stops and PTI's that would be say... 12 hours ON, 10 hour break, 12 hours ON, 10 hour break, and about 6 more hours driving... for a total of 50 hours, or JUST over 2 full days.
Personally, I think 50 mph average for DRIVING time is too slow! IF your truck will do more than 65 mph, and you keep the left door closed, you can average about 60mph WHILE you are driving. Of course, this would depend on what part of the country you are in.
IF you can average 60mph while driving, even a 10 hour day behind the wheel will get you 600 miles. Two of them gets you 1200, and you only have about 3 hours left to drive on the third "shift."
Again, depending on the speed limits, and what your truck will do, I'll tell you what your dispatch will EXPECT. They will expect you to log by miles, not hours, and to get half of those miles each of two shifts.
It may take me my whole 14 hour window (with breaks and fueling,) but I will get those 695 miles per day (at 63 mph average,) take a FULL 10 hour break between them, and do the job in 38 hours.