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How to drive for NYC to LA in a WEEKEND (legally)
hey how's it going my name is alex and i
am at the pilot in mawa
mawa new jersey m-a-h-w-h however you
say that town
but anyways i'm at this pilot in new
jersey and in this video
i want to show or share with you guys
how to dr drive
legally okay one important part how to
legally
drive from new york new jersey area
all the way to california over the
weekend
now we're going to jump inside on the
computer and break down the numbers here
in a second but let me tell you about
myself my experience
i have now been a trucker for five years
uh
well no i'm actually not a trucker um a
transporter
a transporter there you go i have been a
transporter
for five years now i started in 2015 and
right now it's 2021
and so i have been working since and
for all those years a logbook was
required recording
your duty status was required now we
just have to do it on a little app with
a little
computer connected to the trucks but
that's beside the point all
five years i have been using logbook and
it's important because
you realize how to really manipulate the
clock in your favor
after some time has gone by after you've
gained some experience
and knowledge in the industry so that's
what i want to share with you guys
how to drive from new york to california
over the weekend all right let's jump
into the truck really quick just to
clarify now that i have it pulled up
guys it's 41 hours from new york to la
and obviously the weekend you know
saturday sunday that there's 48 hours in
the weekend so technically
uh i i'm not talking about doing it
illegally i'm talking about
legally you pick up a load on friday and
you deliver monday because
in in a car or in a normal vehicle you
know by all means you could just drive
straight through if you if you could and
if you really wanted to it's probably
not a good idea so don't do that
but you know here but we haven't pulled
up now so 41 hours
keep that in mind that we're picking up
a load friday morning
and the broker when we book the load
tells us it has to deliver monday
here's how you get it done my first
question to you is how many shifts
are there between friday and monday if
you said two
or three you're wrong there's actually
four shifts right
so friday shift saturday shift sunday
shift
and monday morning shift right so this
is the important part that monday
morning shift is
crucial to making this happen so here's
a scenario right thursday morning or
thursday afternoon you deliver a load
you hop on the load board and you see
what's out there and a load pops up okay
there isn't many loads there isn't many
good loads
but a load pops up and it says must
deliver monday right
now they give you a window on monday to
deliver but it says must deliver monday
and because of that that means they're
probably paying you know sometimes a
dollar eighty
in between a dollar eighty and two
dollars and twenty cents a mile so if
you figure it's about
two thousand uh the route i'm looking at
right here this one two thousand seven
hundred seventy four miles
you figure that's about five thousand
dollars let's just keep it round numbers
for simplicity it probably could be
somewhere in there but five thousand
dollars okay and you're looking at this
load
thinking like oh man if only i could
deliver thursday
right if only our tuesday my apologies
if only instead of monday i could
deliver tuesday
and you're like well let me ask the
broker so you make the phone call you
call the broker it's thursday afternoon
so you can't pick it up today
so it's thursday afternoon you call the
broker you're like hey i can pick up
this load monday that's not a problem
i'm not too far
but is there any way we could deliver
tuesday
and the broker tells you no absolutely
not it has to deliver monday
sometime anytime throughout the day
between you know whatever eight and four
whatever the hours are in california or
something usually like that's for
shippers and receivers eight to four
right and you're like ah darn okay so
when you've been doing this for a while
you realize that yes you should book
that load and here's how okay
so you tell the broker right away i
gotta pick it up first thing in the
morning okay so whenever they open seven
or eight o'clock in the morning
on the east coast it's usually eight
o'clock um you know because they don't
they don't get started super early but
seven to eight in the morning you have
to pick up the load now
you can pick up the load actually a
little bit later than that but no later
the important part is
no later than 10 am that's the important
part do not pick up the load
later than 10 am because that'll mess it
all up so by 10 am you're loaded and
rolling
now a brief explanation on hours of
service is
you can drive up to 11 hours a day when
you're a professional or commercial
driver
and that has to be within your 14-hour
window so you have a 14-hour
shift clock and of that 14 hours 11
hours can be driving right so that's the
important thing
that means you can drive 11 hours now in
that 11 hours
there has to be some kind of 30-minute
stop okay
now it can be like you stop to fill up
and it takes you 15 minutes but then you
have to take a break for the other 15
but throughout the day you have to take
a 30 minute break and so that means in
reality it to do 11 hours it'll take you
at least
11 hours and 30 minutes now every
morning it's recommend or i think every
morning legally you have to do
a pre-trip inspection and i believe even
a post-trip inspection is required
and so those are about like five to 15
minutes a piece so you figure
that each of those will take another 30
minutes let's say
so that means throughout the day it'll
take you 12 hours
to do at a minimum of 12 hours to do
your 11 hour driving right
so even though they say 11 of driving
there's a couple things that you have to
complete so that means you'll be working
for at least 12 hours essentially so
that means if we are loaded
friday before 10 a.m 12 let's just let's
just say 10
no later than 10 a.m that's the
important part so that means 10 a.m
until 10 p.m we have to drive that's the
12-hour shift right
so that means we're doing 12 hours and
at 10 p.m
we stop okay uh so that that's a long
day right can you imagine you're
starting
you know in the morning and you're going
all the way till 10 pm so this will test
your
endurance your abilities it'll push you
you know because if you're a morning
driver
um that you know that really sucks but
if you're an evening driver that's good
but it turns sour quickly because you
have to start waking up earlier and
earlier in the morning legally we're
required to be off duty for 10 hours
and that means the earliest that you
could start your shift again
is 8 am because 10 pm plus 10 hours is 8
am correct
and so 8 am we start the next day shift
and so i don't know where you'd be
around along this route you know
somewhere probably
in indiana maybe uh somewhere around
there
so 8 a.m we're starting our shift and we
do another
12 hours and so that means that 8 p.m
that day
which is now saturday we're stopping so
8 pm 8 a.m to 8 p.m that's our 12 hour
shift up counting right
okay so it's now sunday morning and
you're somewhere in the middle of the
country good job you made it halfway
and so you have to start your shift
though because remember we stopped at 8
p.m on saturday
so that means on sunday morning we start
our shift at six in the morning right 10
hours later
and so that means all day you drive
and you end up probably somewhere in
arizona
something like that right in there
somewhere because that part of the
country is
really wide so you don't actually get
you don't cross as many states
but that's neither here nor there but
still that means we start at
a.m that means we're driving until 6 p.m
and so at 6 pm we shut down and we go to
bed right away don't waste any time
because uh the next morning monday
morning right so the broker's probably
calling you now
hey location update where are you at so
monday morning
we are waking up because we went to bed
at six or off duty at six
ten hours later that puts us at four in
the morning okay
so now somewhere in albuquerque or
somewhere in new mexico
or arizona you're waking up at 4 00 a.m
to do another drive shift so like i
already explained several times if we're
starting at 4 a.m
that means we will be at our delivery
location
let's call it 12 hours later so that
means we are delivering
in like we're and i'm routing it right
to los angeles right i mean sometimes
it's like riverside it's a little less
and often or very rarely i should say
it's actually new york city sometimes
it's like pa new jersey you know what i
mean stuff like that so
this is the most extreme scenario that
i'm giving you so keep that in mind
but you're showing up to let's say your
receivers at 4pm so right away you guys
might be thinking that setting off red
flags
oh alex you missed it because you know
shippers don't work after 4 p.m
you know that's it your theory is gone
nothing worked out
hold on but don't forget we are basing
these hours these clocks this time
off of new york time that's eastern
standard time
and california is not on eastern
standard time
california is on pacific standard time
and that means
4 p.m which is on our drive time that's
what it would be
4 p.m on new york that means it's 1
o'clock in the morning in l.a
and all of a sudden you now drove
through over the weekend you know 2 700
or so miles
you're you're on site with your receiver
at one o'clock in the afternoon
delivering your load and more than
likely you're probably putting five
thousand dollars gross revenue in your
pocket obviously there's gonna be
expenses and if you figure that
a profit margin for an owner operator is
about forty percent
so there you go five thousand dollars
let's say forty percent that's 500
that's about 2 grand after
a bun that sounds a little low i mean
maybe you'll keep a little more than
that but so let's just call it 2 grand
so you're making 2 000
over the weekend driving those miles uh
so that's that's not bad you know that's
why a lot of people are drivers that's
why a lot of people are
truck drivers you know what i mean
because um you can make a living but
how many people run at this
like with this little margin of error
like this is
almost literally no margin of error
right think about it because
here's now the important part is guys
keep in mind that we're doing 11 hours
of driving so
11 times 4 is 44 and the route takes 41
hours
so we have 44 hours of driving that we
have to do in 44 hours of driving i
should say
we have to do 41 hours so it's it's not
hard when you really break it down
just very very few people are willing to
drive
so late at night and then wake up in the
morning or like not pay attention to the
clock because
remember arizona doesn't do the whole
time thing but they're still three hours
ahead right
so when you're waking up that monday
morning in arizona it's one a.m
think about it it's one a.m on the clock
right it's on your clock to pit you have
to follow your
location whichever time your time zone
you're in you live in but
on when you're waking up and driving in
arizona that monday morning
it's one or two in the morning and
that's why most people
can't max out their clock and drive with
such little margin of error
because it takes a long time to develop
a skill that you can like
really extract as much money as out of
the
uh logging or electronic logbook as
possible it takes time to get good at
extracting money from there
now i just want to say that guys for
about
eight months straight i did a run very
similar to this
i did a pennsylvania to washington to
seattle washington
i did it for eight months straight like
once a month every weekend like this
okay so i know that it's possible
it's totally legit you can do it but the
important part a couple key important
things if you are gonna try to do this
a couple of key important things number
one your equipment better be
seriously reliable okay and when i'm
preaching to you guys an enterprise
rental i'm assuming that you're gonna do
this run every weekend just about you
can't do it legally every weekend
because the drive back and then whatever
but so let's say twice a month once or
twice a month you're gonna do this
guys the best truck for the job is an
enterprise rental
so that's why i always recommend it
because i know whenever i had to do it
with an enterprise rental
it was much easier and so but so i was
doing a pa to washington for like eight
months it wasn't really a contract but
it was a broker that just really worked
with me and helped keep me
loaded uh and so uh so number one is
really how you have to have reliable
equipment number two guys and like i
already mentioned it's
there's a slim margin of air so you
can't be doing this during the winter
you can't be here because
you're gonna ruin your reputation with
that broker and they're not going to
want to work with you next time
so you can't be doing this during the
winter and that's actually why i
selected the oklahoma
you know the i-40 route instead of the
colorado route first of all colorado
d.o.t sucks
i don't like colorado d.o.t they're very
aggressive but the second thing is
i think the weather is usually nicer on
this southern route so just keep it in
mind slim margin of air you can't have
any delays okay and then the last thing
is just because it's massively
uncomfortable you know what i mean
that there is no time to play netflix
there's no time to call of duty if you
have a tv in your thing
like there's nothing there's no time for
tick tock or whatever
like you are literally you're driving
for 11 like you're driving for like six
hours you take a break for 30 minutes
and then you drive another five or so
you know whatever the closest truck stop
and i don't want to say truck stop
usually when i do this i sleep on the
exits on-ramps or off-ramps right
because it's literally you're cutting it
down to the minute every single time
and you're just pulling over at the next
available stop and you shut down right
then and there
and so i mean it's it's the extreme guys
there's no doubt in my mind it's the
extreme
and so i don't recommend it to do it
often but
when they hang a load that's 52 500
and it has to deliver monday you really
start you you know having this
information
can be beneficial so anyways guys that's
gonna do it let me know in the comments
down below
um what do you guys think have you done
a run like this before um do you have
any
questions about you know uh what else
what other
tactics or what other things you can do
with the log book
um that are legal and you know on how to
best utilize it so it's most profitable
for you
let me know in the comments down below
and i will see everyone in the next
video bye
