taffytrucker:
Straight BC and back will bring in about $1K not including drop offs and collections. Here I spend no more time away then what I did doing euro work. Don’t know how much the city drivers are on but could be worth a call. Explore all options
taffytrucker just to put the record straight here done some rough calculations here for ya.
calgary to delta (vancouver) 602 miles @0.40 cpm =$240.80 x2 =$481.60 gross x30% deductions =$337.12.
only $662.88 missing.
and dont forget you have to dodge the trans can talliban!!.
There was a message that went round the company system asking for someone to do BC n back everyweek must be 2 trips a week mileage of 2500 that’s all I’m saying is that you don’t always have to do the distance US trips there are other options
That would be two per week then, that $1000 for c.2500 miles works out to 40cpm, which is about right. Not a lot of money though, I want to take that sort of money home each month, You could earn more than $4000 gross and still have decent home time by doing three round trips one week and two the next, but you need to have everything go right for that to happen, this is transport, so that is just a dream. One other thing to consider is that is a hard run in the winter, the road is frequently closed by the weather and the wraparound stetson gang falling off the road, so what looks good on paper is not so easy in real life
Vastly & Newmercman both spot on, a hell of a run in the winter and your wages would work out to a little over $16 an hour, not including waiting time either end, hold ups on the road etc.
Also Taff you cannot get a work permit for city driving in Alberta on the PNP.
Calgary- Montreal/Toronto and back was the best money I made here when I was on the road, again, providing everything falls into place, pin to pin, with quick turnaround, running max hours.
It’s fine if your single but not if you want a fair bit of time at home.
So I still say to Nearly There, you can’t have good money and a lot of home time.
Its not a run I would do but just putting out another option out there wouldn’t wanna do the trans Canada run west either that’s hell of a run across the praries in the winter. I enjoy what I’m doing now and long as back every 2 or 3 weeks when the wife gets over am happy to work my balls off now for easier time when get older lol
Now I don’t like to say ‘I told you so’ to anyone but … I told you so
Every guy who when back in the UK asks about driving on this side of the ocean gets the same warning from me … “You will rarely see your family again” It’s not like tramping back in the UK or even Europe, it’s away 14 days at a time or even more, you have to be prepared to do it. It nearly cost me yet another marriage but luckily I got this job and it saved us.
Pat Hasler:
Now I don’t like to say ‘I told you so’ to anyone but … I told you so
Every guy who when back in the UK asks about driving on this side of the ocean gets the same warning from me … “You will rarely see your family again” It’s not like tramping back in the UK or even Europe, it’s away 14 days at a time or even more, you have to be prepared to do it. It nearly cost me yet another marriage but luckily I got this job and it saved us.
Pat Hasler:
Now I don’t like to say ‘I told you so’ to anyone but … I told you so
Every guy who when back in the UK asks about driving on this side of the ocean gets the same warning from me … “You will rarely see your family again” It’s not like tramping back in the UK or even Europe, it’s away 14 days at a time or even more, you have to be prepared to do it. It nearly cost me yet another marriage but luckily I got this job and it saved us.
I made it back to Calgary today so away for a week now covered just over 3700 miles taking a 36 hour break in Calgary then imm off over to BC on sunday for 11 am delivery monday
Been a good trip this week covered some serious miles think I even shocked myself with just how well I did
I heard that H&R is switching to e-logs in a few months. Have you heard anything about that?
Somehow I think that the H&R dispatch model and e-logs are not going to work well together . Should it be true I really do hope that it works out for the guys there as the possibility of it costing you serious money in the beginning is very real.
Anyway glad to see that everything seems to be working out for you at the big red team sofar.
Lol I hear you there crunchy lol but no I not heard anything bout that maybe as the older units get replaced they will come with e-logs. When I started here I did question that but was informed that they were trying them out on a small number of trucks but no plans to roll it out fleet wide, saying that plans change so who knows ill keep you all posted as I find out. I use my rand mcnally along side my log book and that keeps me pretty much spot on
If they are using the quallcom system then its just a case of putting the software om the quallcom nothing more so it shouldn’t take that long to get it up and running if they wanted to. anyway have fun
mickfly:
We are running Elogs here at the H&R (two more ex H&R starters last week) flatdeck division, it keeps us safe and honest.
I’d rather be parked up in a proper parking area with at the very least, toilet facilities. Not stuck on the loading dock of a coldstore or parked on the road outside at the mercy of any one of the millions of gang bangers in America.
I have absolutely no interest in running bent, been there and done that on reefer work. But, I do value my right to free movement dearly and will resist to the very bitter end, anyone or anything that tells me that I have to remain absolutely stationary for 10 hours regardless of circumstances and conditions. If I want to take a dump, I will be driving in violation to do so, not doing it under the trailer or in a bush. If some fool parks next to be at 3am, puts his truck on high idle, engine fan roaring and every panel on his truck clattering and vibrating, I’ll be moving. I can do these things on a paper log and no one cares, its of no conern, it allows me to be a human. Elogs and even worse, digital tachos do not allow for those things. I’m not a machine with an on and off button and wont be treated as such. Even convicted criminals in American jails aren’t forced to stay for 10 hours in a cell at night with no toilet.
Its all well and good out west, but here in the east parking for trucks is often non-existant. Connecticut and Masshole are prime examples, other than the few rest areas and the odd truckstop, all full by 6 or 7pm, theres nothing and you often have to try 5 or 6 places before finding a spot. One large motivation for leaving the UK was the volume or rules and regulations that dictated life, I have no desire to live by the same rules here, worrying about minutes and seconds due to an electronic tracking device thrusted on to me by men/women in suits who will never have to live by such a thing and have probably forgotten about it before the ink of their signitures dried on the paper that signed them in to law.
You don’t have to remain stationary for 10 hours on elog, providing you have logged off duty you can drop your trailer, log out but when it asks if you need to remove the log fom your truck just click ‘NO’ you are then free to use the tractor for private purposes such as driving to facilities etc. So long as you are not hooked to a trailer you are in fact allowed up to 60 miles of private used when logged out. You can’t log out in sleeper mode though. If you want you can log off duty, log out, drive to a diner or truck stop then after 2 hours log back in and go to sleeper for 8 hours and that is allowed as a full 10 hour break, also when booking any break using elogs make sure you go at least one full minute over the required break or it will not register as a full break. ,… ie; 10 hour and 1 minute, 8 and 1 or 2 and 1.
taffytrucker:
I think what robin means pat is that can’t load pull off see that have like 5 mins left and 20 mins to nearest stop for the night
Actually you can, You just stay logged on and run to the nearest facilities and make an entry on the ‘Remarks’ section on the log that you were delayed and ran over your hours to get to safe parking. You may get a letter warning you about going over your hours but so long as you enter the reason and it’s not a regular event DOT will not give you a violation unless it’s obviously running ilegally as often as you can. If you do not write a reason you will get in trouble.
Like I say, I have no intention of running bent anymore even on a paper log but at the same time I dont want the iron grip of a tachograph type device around my balls either. I like my sleep as much as anyone, probably more than most people and nothing winds me up more than the situation I mentioned before about another truck parking next to me running his engine on high idle all night with all the clattering and such like that comes with an American truck fresh from the ark. Just the other week I was parked in a nice quiet rest area on I80 in Illinois, fast asleep when at 2:45am I was awoken by the noisiest piece of crap I’ve ever had the misfortune of suffering, roaring away next to me with what sounded like a intake of a jet engine as a radiator fan. The prick even had his windows half way down so what use was his air con?!?! I hammered on his door to no joy, he was either ignoring me or inside the toilets but I waited for 15 minutes and became so enraged that I had no choice but to fire up and park round the other side near the exit ramp where I got a fantastic nights sleep, despite the fact I’d had the audacity to defy the law to do so. Even had I been able to get hold of the idiot steering wheel jockey responsible for that noise, I know full well he wouldn’t have turned it off, its just the American way, they dont know any better and I’d either have to back down like a coward or get physical which would no doubt see me arrested and banned from entering the US for life so moving my own truck was the only sensible thing to do if I wanted any sleep at all.
I know some Elogs allow for a short distance of driving before logging you back to on-duty mode but many dont now and how long will it be before the control hungry power crazed zealots who come up with these laws ban any sort of movement whatsoever. Listening to Road Dog on Sirius radio, its already been stated numerous times by the US authorities responsible for Elogs that they’re modelling the “excellent” example of Europe in regards drivers hours and enforcement.
The only advantage with the digi taco is once your work time is up that’s it no more work for the week no matter how much dispatch moan but that’s about it, its like although stuck in a truck stop for weekend we used one of the units to pop to wal mart to do our shopping for next week, never get away with that in UK
