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How many miles maximum are you allowed to in a day and in a 8 day period?
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By now I thought you would have it through your head you do not log miles you log time. There is no real maiximum number of miles per day. It is simply whatever you can fit into your available drive time doing the speed limit.
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Maxium miles are what is driven in the time you have available.
I know all the arguments for logging a certain amout of miles, however, you log TIME not MILES.
You got ten hours? You left from x and you ended up in z .. how many miles was that?
Miles as record of your driving distance, is an add on on to your TIME.
Miles are not logged, time is.

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Originally posted by Fatty Turnbuckle:
650, 670? 600 (if you have to go through Ohio). Although, I "logged" 760 one day before I realized I couldn't do that legally. It slipped by, no one said anything about it.
Thank goodness we're paid by trip miles.
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I kind of figured that you could run up to 670 or 760 miles a day if you are in the right area and stay on the highway. Why I asked this is I seen somewhere where you could only log 500 miles a day, I have no clue as to where I seen this
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If you're running west across Nebraska and Wyoming, and you take off at midnight, do your 10 and a 8 hour break then hit it again, it is possible to do 850-900 miles in one day. But, if you get pulled in they'll look a lot harder at your logbook than they normally would. You gotta be loaded real light and have an ungoverned truck. -->
Log it as you drive it, not by mileage.
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Interpretations
§392.6 Schedules to Conform With Speed Limits.
Question 1: How many miles may a driver record on his/her daily record of duty status and still be presumed to be in compliance with the speed limits?
Guidance: Drivers are required to conform to the posted speed limits prescribed by the jurisdictions in or through which the vehicle is being operated. Where the total trip is on highways with a speed limit of 65 mph, trips of 550-600 miles completed in 10 hours are considered questionable and the motor carrier may be asked to document that such trips can be made. Trips of 600 miles or more will be assumed to be incapable of being completed without violations of the speed limits and may be required to be documented. In areas where a 55 mph speed limit is in effect, trips of 450-500 miles are open to question, and runs of 500 miles or more are considered incapable of being made in compliance with the speed limit and hours of service limitation.
Interpretations Part 392
John Q.
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51st Federalist Papers
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This is the first time I have seen John Q's excerpt of the regs, it is noteworthy and I appreciate it. It would seem that if you were on I40 from OK through Texas, NM, and AZ, driving mostly at night with a powerful truck and light load you could average about 5 miles under the speed limit in my opinion. Anyway assuming you averaged 68 mph, and ran all 15 of your hours(old rules) minus 1 hour for pre-trips/etc and assuming you started out full of fuel, you could drive 952 miles in that 24 hour period. And yes I have logged in excess of 900 miles before. Never had a problem, but, I was never in a position for the DOT to be checking my logs within a time period of those kind of miles in my book.
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Originally posted by John Q. Public:
_Interpretations
§392.6 Schedules to Conform With Speed Limits.
Question 1:_ How many miles may a driver record on his/her daily record of duty status and still be presumed to be in compliance with the speed limits?
_Guidance:_ Drivers are required to conform to the posted speed limits prescribed by the jurisdictions in or through which the vehicle is being operated. Where the total trip is on highways with a speed limit of 65 mph, trips of 550-600 miles completed in 10 hours are considered questionable and the motor carrier may be asked to document that such trips can be made. Trips of 600 miles or more will be assumed to be incapable of being completed without violations of the speed limits and may be required to be documented. In areas where a 55 mph speed limit is in effect, trips of 450-500 miles are open to question, and runs of 500 miles or more are considered incapable of being made in compliance with the speed limit and hours of service limitation.
http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rulesregs/fmcsr/regs/392reg.htm
John Q.
_"If men were angels...No government would be necessary."_
_51st Federalist Papers_
Thats where I got the idea of mileage limitations
Hey, if life throws you a curve ball, try and take a swing at it. Who knows what might happen

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One thing though......DO NOT run 900 miles in the next 24 hour period!
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"Got the bird dog on...
Dodgin' the scales...
80 miles an hour and a step outta jail..." --> From "Rollin' Home, Pirates of the Mississippi)
*******************************
"I've always been different with one foot over the line.
Winding up somewhere, one step ahead or behind.
It ain't been so easy, but I guess I shouldn't complain.
I've always been crazy, but it's kept me from going insane." (from Waylon Jennings)
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Member: Happy Dweller Society
Owner Operator Division


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I run a lot early evening through early morning, sleep about 9 to 10 hours and drive again. Most of this driving is crossing over on midnight.
I stay under the 15 hour rule from midnight to midnight, but when you drive past that midnight hour your no longer in violation of the 15 hour rule until the next day, midnight to midnight.
Driving past midnight every day you can maximize your driving hours everyday until you reach your 70 hours.
12 to 13 hour driving days are easily attainable midnight to midnight and crossing over midnight into the next day.
This way, you can start lets say at 7pm, by 5am you have your 10hrs of driving in. Sleep until 5pm if you want, take an hour off, start out at 6pm. That still gives you 11 hours of driving time that day. Cross over midnight and you hit your 10hrs at 6am.
I hear carriers and drivers constantly whinning they cannot run 10 hours a day and make any miles or money.
Of course they don't, Their running 10 hours a day only. Drivers are practically running over each other getting into the truck stops by the tens of thousands every night at 5pm to play the cherry machines, play with the lot lizzards, BS on the CB most of the night and or into the early morning hours.
All these fools in the trucking industry had to do is negotiate with the DOT a reasonable 24 hour restart rule under the current rules. The idiots in this industry never realized they could easily run 12 to 13 hours every day without even working up a sweat!!! And still get a minimum of 9 hours of sleep every day.
When others say, "people in the trucking industry suffer from galactic stupidity" their not kidding!!!
[This message was edited by dak1 on November 02, 2003 at 16:25.]

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I hear carriers and drivers constantly whinning they cannot run 10 hours a day and make any miles or money.
Of course they don't, Their running 10 hours a day ONLY.
I know EXACTLY what you mean....I've heard this for YEARS.
For Some Reason some drvrs THINK that we are ONLY allowed 10 hrs per DAY.(they THINK from midnight to midnight we are ONLY Allowed 10 drving hrs for the Whole 24 hrs...and that is NOT true.)

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Then they should run their ten hours, hit the sleeper for eight, then get up and do it again, LOL

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Originally posted by Hoss:
If you're running west across Nebraska and Wyoming, and you take off at midnight, do your 10 and a 8 hour break then hit it again, it is possible to do 850-900 miles in one day. But, if you get pulled in they'll look a lot harder at your logbook than they normally would. You gotta be loaded real light and have an ungoverned truck. -->
Log it as you drive it, not by mileage.
857 miles from Omaha, NE to Evanston, WY on I-80 with a 75 mile per hour speed limit. 11 3/4 hours driving time. So if you left Omaha, NE at midnight full of fuel traveling 10 hours, taking an 8 hour break from 10am to 6pm and drive on to Evanston, WY at 7:45pm with enough time to turn around and go back east 315 miles before midnight that day. Total possible miles in one day of 1,172 with average speed of 73 mph (driving time).
But there are very few places in the country this can be done considering how heavy the load is, the speed of the truck and traffic/weather/road conditions.
My driver's daily log warns me if I log over 800 miles in one day due to the fact that if your truck was running in 55 mph states, this would be about what you could average in those states.

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The way i log is say you leave at eight in the morn get somewhere say 500 miles away later to fuel eat whatevet take the 500 divided by five under the speed limits in whatever states you were in say all 75mph states thats 7.14 hours make it 7.25 with all the B/S of traffic stoping to pee or whatever it may have taken you 10 hours to actually be there show 7.25 and you just shortened your 8 hout break by 2.75 hours. Now these guys will say log by time not mile but believe me divide you mile by what your company allows as far as speed limits and log that way its how everyone does if you log the way things are really done you might as well work at Mc D's cause u will not get anything done and why be away from home for 1000 or 2000 miles aweek.
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