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jon f mn

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😂😂. My buddy is a cow hauler and the amount of miles he drives in a makes me sick to think about .
 
Im not a truck driver but traveled most of my working life for work. I was always amused when I arrived at the job site and they said "you drove all the way here?" I would reply no only half way. Any place I could drive in a day was considered local.
 
My brother was a Policeman. Said he only had a short drive to work, but once there, sat in a car and drove all day. Go to the field and sit on a tractor and drive 8-10 hours, and think nothing of it. Drive your pickup for 8-10 hours and you will be a long ways from home
 
When I have been asked a question like that, I reply similarly, but different. I say I think I drove about half of the way, the other half I don't know, because I was asleep!
 
That's about right. I used to get out to Salt Lake City UT occasionally. IF I left MI I would stop at Des Moines IA first night then around Hershey NE or Further west. Then deliver in Salt Lake the third day. This was with oversize so daylight hours only. I had curfews for Chicago,Omaha,and Salt Lake. It's right at 550-600 to Des Moines IA from the house.
 
A good friend of mine was in the Marines stationed at Pendleton. At the end of his career his assignment was to haul tanks from Pendleton to New York for refurbishing, then drop and hook a trailer with a refurbished unit to haul back west.
He'd done several tours in Vietnam and declined to go back so they stuck him with that job.
 
I truly don't see how truck drivers can do it!

I can not sit and stare out a windshield for hours. I have to somehow break the boredom or I start dozing and drifting off, a dangerous situation! I feel like I'm literally gambling with my and others lives, and if done enough it will catch up with me!

It makes my back hurt, my legs go to sleep, my hands go numb, it's just not my calling.

Same thing at work, occasionally I get a production job where I am doing the same mindless repetition, standing in the same spot all day. I am a physical and mental wreck by the end of the day.

And yet there are people that love that kind of work. I'm just not one of them!
 
Well. not exactly.....

I think it depends on where you were raised. 600 miles would be a half days drive (10 hours) and that was before air conditioning.

Larry
 
When I used to drive it was common for me to have 200 miles under my belt by 9 in the morning. 600 miles was a short day for me. But that was before electronic logs.
 
It makes a big difference if you are getting paid to make the drive or if you are the one paying for each mile and maybe burning valuable time that would be better spend doing something more productive.
 
(quoted from post at 07:50:02 02/24/21) It makes a big difference if you are getting paid to make the drive or if you are the one paying for each mile and maybe burning valuable time that would be better spend doing something more productive.

You hit the nail on the head with that. Lot of folks don't see where travel time can cost a company a lot of money with executive travel. But take a mid level guy making 150-200K a year. 4 hours by plane or 2 days by Amtrak? Even with high speed rail that executive is spending too much time doing nothing. It's why some companies can justify a company aircraft for the top dogs. That's way faster than commercial air.

Rick
 
(quoted from post at 10:47:25 02/24/21) I know someone that lives in Memphis Tn and works in Midland Tx.
Thats 780 miles just to drive to work.

He does work 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off so he only needs to make the trip once a month.

Whew! That drive to Midland can feel like it is 2 thousand miles. Used to go to the oil show there.

When I worked in the Persian Gulf, we worked 28 days on and 28 days off. 3 days of travel came out of my 28 so it was 25 at home unless I stopped in another country for a while. Because of the time change, it was 1 day to get there and 2 days to come back going through Europe. When I was at Singapore for a few months building and rigging up 2 new jackup drilling rigs for transport to the Gulf, it was 2 days to get there and 1 to come back except for the stops in Bangkok, Hong Kong, Toyoko, and Hawaii.
 
610 miles round trip to pickup my son at college. Its a day trip. When I was younger and had a travel job 8-900 was normal in a 14 hour day depending on what part of the country you where traveling through. Glad I dont do that anymore. Takes a lot of discipline.

Vito
 
I worked on trucks all my work career. In the 70s, which were more 'freewheeling' , so to speak, some drivers carried multiple log books. And a lot of them took 'speed' . They were paid by the mile and not the hour, so the faster and longer they drove the better the paycheck. A 3000mi week was not unheard of. I can remember hearing them say (from Cincinnati), 'oh I just gotta run up to Chicago tonight or Detroit, be back tomorrow afternoon', just like it was a hop, skip and a jump. Or just like me, 'I gotta work til midnight. I had drivers tell me about going from Ocala, Fla, to Detroit, Mi nonstop except for fuel. I remember drivers telling me they could not remember driving thru an entire state. Now me, whenever I drive more than 2hrs, especially on the interstate, I start to get numb. Even on a tractor after 2hrs I need to get off and stretch. Mark.
 

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