robinhood_1984:
Just looked through my log books and mine is only 104,211 miles or 167,711km. That’s quite low for North America to be honest but I’m not doing proper long haul work most of the time these days. It has to be said though, that while I’ve had one my my lowest mileage years since arriving in Canada, I’ve had my highest earning year by quite a margin.
how many hours a week are you allowed to drive in canada ? and what are the speed limits ?
100,000 miles in the uk is virtually impossible. if you took no holidays and averaged 45 hrs a week, to do 100,000 miles you would need to average 42.7mph. May be some night time trunking boys can average above that speed on some runs, but that would be some effort to average it for max driving hours week in week out.
103420km for the whole of 2015 (jan 11th until dec 22nd), days worked (including weekend breaks in the cab): 224
so 14051km per month, which I am quite satisfied with, considering the conditions of northern scandinavia
don’t know what my exact mileage for the year is, without my diary, which is in my truck, but it will be in the ball park of 85-90 thousand miles. I know I did 203 nights away 
Used 3 different trucks in 2015 but I reckon I’m around 75,000 miles in trucks and I know I’ve done 30,000 in the car as well.
So between car and lorry I’m over 100,000 for the year. More than some people drive in a life time!
If I remember I might make a note of my mileage in the diary, be interesting to know the mileage I do over a year and the mileage of a tour.
JIMBO47:
about 65k ish mls from first week in april -1st December wae about a month o that on redi mix . in Canada its 70hrs on duty in “days” (cycle 1) …in a 24hr period (usually 00.01–24.00hrs) 10hrs off duty must be shown ,13hrs driving.max… no driving after 14hrs on duty, but the 10hr break can be 8 off +2hrs later on making a work shift off 16hrs .
you can have 8hrs off between days (work) and take 2hrs later …AS long as you show 10hrs off in each 24hr period(work day).
You also have to show on your log 15mins at start of shift as a pretrip,and any time you say change trailers…some others might not agree wae this one log 15mins fueling up (if over 150ltrs) some companies make you show all fuel stops.and 15mins for postrip(some do some don’t)…
duh my head hurts now…and if you don’t leave outwith 100mls of a company depot you don’t need to log at all only the pretrip (defectbook only) if you use a clock in device at your work…So if you have another company yard within 100mls of your base its 100ml from that as well …cough cough…NB you can not leave your province! . This is how I work nowadays 
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Speed limits 100-110 km out west …the speed Nazis in Ontario etc (east) make you limit your trucks to105km.
So the poor old folk from Ontario etc are left in the dust in the Usa by us western boys running at 75mph 
THe USA have different laws and to be honest they have changed a bit since I last ran south so someone else might take it from here. jimmy.
I was just trying to read through the Canadian “Hours of Service” rules … It would appear that if on a 14 day cycle that you have a max of 120 hours on duty. As the time spent driving does not seem to be limited other than no more than 13 hours a day, am I correct in thinking that you could devote all of that time to driving ? obviously some time needed for pre-trip inspections and fueling, so it could be reasonable to be averaging 55 hours a week behind the wheel when on long haul?
Also, are tachographs not compulsory ? can you really just use a log book ?
Bluey Circles:
JIMBO47:
about 65k ish mls from first week in april -1st December wae about a month o that on redi mix . in Canada its 70hrs on duty in “days” (cycle 1) …in a 24hr period (usually 00.01–24.00hrs) 10hrs off duty must be shown ,13hrs driving.max… no driving after 14hrs on duty, but the 10hr break can be 8 off +2hrs later on making a work shift off 16hrs .
you can have 8hrs off between days (work) and take 2hrs later …AS long as you show 10hrs off in each 24hr period(work day).
You also have to show on your log 15mins at start of shift as a pretrip,and any time you say change trailers…some others might not agree wae this one log 15mins fueling up (if over 150ltrs) some companies make you show all fuel stops.and 15mins for postrip(some do some don’t)…
duh my head hurts now…and if you don’t leave outwith 100mls of a company depot you don’t need to log at all only the pretrip (defectbook only) if you use a clock in device at your work…So if you have another company yard within 100mls of your base its 100ml from that as well …cough cough…NB you can not leave your province! . This is how I work nowadays .
Speed limits 100-110 km out west …the speed Nazis in Ontario etc (east) make you limit your trucks to105km.
So the poor old folk from Ontario etc are left in the dust in the Usa by us western boys running at 75mph
THe USA have different laws and to be honest they have changed a bit since I last ran south so someone else might take it from here. jimmy.
I was just trying to read through the Canadian “Hours of Service” rules … It would appear that if on a 14 day cycle that you have a max of 120 hours on duty. As the time spent driving does not seem to be limited other than no more than 13 hours a day, am I correct in thinking that you could devote all of that time to driving ? obviously some time needed for pre-trip inspections and fueling, so it could be reasonable to be averaging 55 hours a week behind the wheel when on long haul?
Also, are tachographs not compulsory ? can you really just use a log book ?
Yep, most are still only on log books but they have brought out electronic log books in the past few years which some of the bigger companies are using and will eventually become compulsory.
13 hours driving a day, 70hrs in 7 days, 36hrs rest after 14days.
I’m the same as Jimmy, within a 160km of base, no logs or paperwork of any sort and a 125kph speed limiter.
aye you could do 15min pretrip and drive 13hrs non stop at 110km then 15min for fuel and be legal with time left .
you can actually do 14 days without a reset if u don’t do the 70hrs in the 7days it gets a wee bit complicated wae aw the subtractions,hope someone else that’s better wae writing explains it better, 
nope no tachos log books like the auld uk ones /loose leaf ones as well (not numbered) but they are looking at bringing in electronic log books/ oopps neil posted //jimmy
Bluey Circles:
I was just trying to read through the Canadian “Hours of Service” rules … It would appear that if on a 14 day cycle that you have a max of 120 hours on duty. As the time spent driving does not seem to be limited other than no more than 13 hours a day, am I correct in thinking that you could devote all of that time to driving ? obviously some time needed for pre-trip inspections and fueling, so it could be reasonable to be averaging 55 hours a week behind the wheel when on long haul?
Also, are tachographs not compulsory ? can you really just use a log book ?
I’ve never known anyone use the 14 day cycle, we all use 70 hours in 7 days, which is more compatible with crossing the border in to the US where its 70 hours in 8 days, which means in the US you never have to actually have a day off if you average 8hrs 45 mins per day, which is what a lot of the big firms there do with their drivers on the road for months bumbling around. Canadian trucks generally hammer their time out and try and squeeze back in to Canada before hitting the limit and then have a couple of days off at home.
You’ve read the Canadian HOS rules, the US ones allow for less, 11 hours driving per day etc. I usually like to get in 1000-1050km a day in in the US and a bit more in Canada. As for being allowed to do 13 hours driving in Canada, I can do it now and then, but I couldn’t do it day in, day out and I’m not one to be having less than 10 off at night, you can forget all this 8 hours off nonsense.
And yes, its still paper logs, though many are now on electronic ones, which can be altered by the company, but not the driver in the truck. Make of that what you will.
My current job is mainly multi-drop delivering flowers and plants around New England, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, hence my low mileage this year, and while I know my mileage sounds high compared to whats possible in the UK, you really can’t compare the two places like for like.