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i was wondering whats the average miles in a good day and a bad day ? i know it depends on alot of diffrents things . just wondering.

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You are doing real good to do 500 miles per 10 hours east of the Mississippi River and 600 miles west of the Mississippi.
Like you mentioned though there are a lot of variables here but assuming everything is going reasonably well those milage figures are not totally unreasonable.
Of course a bad day is less than a mile.
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You aren't going to be dispatched so perfectly that it's all going to fall in place and fit a schedule. Logging legally and truthfully max will be around 1800-2200 miles a week with a competent dispatcher and router, a rarity in itself.
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If this is a average then I must be doing good.
Last year was my worst year ever at a little over 2700 miles a week average. Some weeks are good others bad. I look at it at the end of the year. I guess you could only have 2000 legal miles if you have to sit at the dock a lot or are not released of responsibility on privet property. Most guy would starve to death on that. If You can not average 130000 miles a year in dry van you need to switch companies.202 N Main Street
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I have pointed this out too on other posts here in the RT.
Miles are only a part of the story. Accessorial pay can play a big (sometimes bigger part) to your overall paycheck each week than how many miles you get. I have had bigger checks running 1700 miles in a week than I had when I ran 3200 in 7 days. The reason for this is that I did a lot of short runs and the company paid extra for short haul, plus I got some detention pay out of the deal, not to mention some muti pickup and drop loads.
When talking to companies be sure to find out about what they offer in accessorial pay and the exact qualifications to get that pay. Accesorial pay is pay for anything other than driving. Common pay types are:
Layover (when delayed due to not having a load or not being able to deliver a load for an extended period of time)
Breakdown (self explantory)
Detention (pay for sitting at a dock for an extended period of time)
Loading/Unloading pay
Tarp pay (for flat beds)
multi stop (paid when picking up delivering to more than one place. The first pickup and last drop are not included in this)
short haul pay (pay for running loads under a given milage pay)
There are some others that are not as common but I think you should get the point. At the end of the week it is not how many miles you have driven that relly matters. It is how big or small that pay check is.
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If you run legal and log it like you run it, and stay out for more than 8 days at a time (so your're running off your seventy), the most you can do on average is about 480 miles per day, or apx 3,300 miles per week (apx 8.5 driving hours per day). Beyond that, you'd have to run in violation of HOS.
But as noted above, it depends on the routes, average mph, amount of city driving, how effeciently you're dispatched....and a whole lot more.
I'd go crazy only driving 1800-2000 miles a week, since I stay out for 2-3 weeks at a time. That's only about 270 miles a day -- or 5 driving hours per day. But for drivers who only drive Monday-Friday, 2000 miles a week is 400 per day -- not too bad.

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His question was about average newbie miles, not what it's possible to run, or how many miles outlaws run in a week of creative logging. If we want to go there, then there are plenty of drivers getting 4,000 to 5,500 miles a week running solo.
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no such thing as an average day,some days 200 miles,others 600 miles or more
2500 to 3000 a week is probably somewhere around the industry average for 48 state drivers
regional driver about 500 miles less per week
the above are just wild guess's and even if they where acurite numbers,what you get may be way different depend on a million things.
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Dominoes said:
His question was about average newbie miles
No, don't think so. Read it again. He asked:
i was wondering whats the average miles in a good day and a bad day ? i know it depends on alot of diffrents things . just wondering
"Newbie" has nothing to do with it -- they usually get the same miles everyone else does with the large carriers.
[This message was edited by Shuffler on June 30, 2003 at 18:33.]

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i was wondering whats the average miles in a good day and a bad day ? i know it depends on alot of diffrents things . just wondering
If he wasn't a newbie, he wouldn't have asked.
If you run legal and log it like you run it, and stay out for more than 8 days at a time (so your're running off your seventy), the most you can do on average is about 480 miles per day, or apx 3,300 miles per week (apx 8.5 driving hours per day). Beyond that, you'd have to run in violation of HOS.
Your response doesn't answer his question, He didn't ask how many he COULD get.
My response was based on talking to newbie drivers, not just reading the posts from the ones who lie about it or get exceptional miles. If they were all getting 3,000 miles a week they wouldn't quit at the rates they do, nor do the ones that quit ever come back and post about it.
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But you yourself said:
Logging legally and truthfully max will be around 1800-2200 miles a week with a competent dispatcher
You're talking "max" just like everyone else, since the best we can do for this poster is give him a range.
But 1800-2200 certainly isn't a "max". Even if you log 20 hours every eight days on line-4, that leaves 50 hours to drive.
2200miles / 50hrs = 44mph
I'm giving your statement the benefit of the doubt with excessive line-4 time and the higher mileage figure you quoted, and it's still way off.
If this industry is tough enough most folks shouldn't even thnk about joining it (and it is), then why do you have to exhaggerate it even further? Doesn't a good faith effort to communicate the truth serve them better?

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You are assuming that he will have an assignment immediately when he's done, or doesn't get the usual long runs with appointment or due dates way out there. Few companies are run that well, and the larger companies have lots of drivers that sit for awhile till a load can be found for them.
then why do you have to exhaggerate it even further? Doesn't a good faith effort to communicate the truth serve them better?
I said legally and truthfully. Often they will sit for hours, and then run at the end of a long day of waiting, loading, unloading, or shuttling, when dispatch sends them a load at 6:30 pm after they got up at 5:00 am, then they will run all night till they use up their 'creatively logged' available driving hours. This is closer to the truth than your 'averaging 3,000 miles a week at 8.5 hours a day' BS.
44 mph-55mph is closer to reality than creatively logging your mileage to fit the log. you mught hit higher if you are out west, or a moron who runs 6 to 10 hours nonstop like an idiot.
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I never said a newbie will average 3000 miles a week. Read this again and see for yourself:
If you run legal and log it like you run it, and stay out for more than 8 days at a time (so your're running off your seventy), the most you can do on average is about 480 miles per day, or apx 3,300 miles per week (apx 8.5 driving hours per day). Beyond that, you'd have to run in violation of HOS
In other words (if you wish) although each day may vary, the most you can probably average on a daily basis is about 480 miles, or 3,300 per week before over-running your hours. The key words are most and average. Some days (24-hour periods) you may do over 700. Other days you may only do a couple hundred. But given the restraints of HOS regs, the most you can do on an 8-day log book running 7 days a week continously is an average of about 480 miles per day, or 3300 per week.
"Most" does not mean all the time. It's the top end -- clearly the context of the reply and the info zig and I were giving him.
You are assuming that he will have an assignment immediately when he's done, or doesn't get the usual long runs with appointment or due dates way out there. Few companies are run that well....
You got that right. Werner gets me 3000 miles a week, every week. My daily mileage almost always stays in the 300-675 range. The only time I sit for a whole day is when I'm out of hours -- maybe once or twice a month. The rest of the time I'm usually picking-up 5-12 hours a day from my seventy, and running it the same day. Werner drivers should expect 8,000-13,000 miles a month, as I've said many many time here before. Most land right around the fleet average -- 10,000 per month -- or better. Werner has eliminated most of the "...usual long runs with appointment or due dates way out there." We drop or swap over 50% our loads along the way to maximize miles. Werner calls it 'drop and swap" and it keeps the driver running, while offering more flexible delivery service to the customer. No matter when they want it -- how soon or how far out -- it'll either get dropped for a while or passed along in a computerizd matrix that keeps the trucks loaded and rolling. I sometimes hook trailers that have had 5 or six previous drivers working it across the country to match available driver hours and locations. One driver start to finish is becoming an antiquated way to move freight, especially for a company with 8000 trucks spread out across the country...
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[This message was edited by Shuffler on June 30, 2003 at 23:23.]

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Cant you 2 go somewhere else and argue??? its worse than a dang CB karate fight in here!!??
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