I am interested in what mileage trucks can do in 24 hours.
For example London to Aberdeen,how many drivers would it need and are there many companies still running balanced trunks that firms like Suttons used to run,but seeing that we have no manufacturing left I presume not many.
If a calendar day Theoretically on a straight uninterrupted motorway from London to Scotland, 560 miles but that’ll never happen. Probably 480- 500 miles is a guess.
Theoretically within a rolling 24 hours snapshot you could drive 2 hrs 15mins, 45 min break, then drive 4.5 hours, 9 hours rest overnight, then drive 4.5 hours, 45 min break then drive 2hrs 15. At 56 mph that’s 840 miles but good luck with that.
When on the fish wagons I used to do Aberdeen to Boulogne in a 15 hour spread and thru the pipe.
I’m sure there’s a pallet network company near me who runs double manned from cambuslang to Watford Gap and back then the same truck trunks to Aberdeen and back during the day.
Capt Tim Peake used to.
damoq:
I’m sure there’s a pallet network company near me who runs double manned from cambuslang to Watford Gap and back then the same truck trunks to Aberdeen and back during the day.
yellow lorries?
scotstrucker:
damoq:
I’m sure there’s a pallet network company near me who runs double manned from cambuslang to Watford Gap and back then the same truck trunks to Aberdeen and back during the day.yellow lorries?
Not yellow ones. M&H Logistics.
We run two trunks per day from Hull to near Oxford. Driver 1 does 420 miles in his 12 hours, passes keys to driver 2 who does the same. 840 miles in 24 hours, pretty much the limit I’d have thought.
Believe it or not but Tesco Strood depot would be up there with them. A vehicle would do two trips to Fenny Lock @ 88 miles one way or Kiln Farm @ 93 miles one way in the day and then a night trunk run to Middlewich RDC @ 424 return miles making a running total between 776 and 800 miles. Strood was the highest mileage depot in the country by repute.
UPS when they where in Nuneaton used to run double manned to ■■■■■■■■■■■ and back
lolipop:
UPS when they where in Nuneaton used to run double manned to ■■■■■■■■■■■ and back
one man job that. 
While double-manning on fish runs… did Scrabster to Penzance a few times. Please don’t ask why fish caught of the north coast of Scotland had to be shifted to a processor in Cornwall when they could’ve caught their own fish locally - cos I don’t know myself…
ChrisArbon:
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709 miles in just under 10 and a quarter hours, last week.
70mph average. Aren’t American trucks speed limited?
Captain Caveman 76:
ChrisArbon:
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709 miles in just under 10 and a quarter hours, last week.70mph average. Aren’t American trucks speed limited?
Cruise control is limited to 75 mph. No limit on the pedal.
ChrisArbon:
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709 miles in just under 10 and a quarter hours, last week.
Admirable indeed.
Where was this between if ok to ask…■■
Night run / day run or does it matter where you may be… ■■
Captain Caveman 76:
We run two trunks per day from Hull to near Oxford. Driver 1 does 420 miles in his 12 hours, passes keys to driver 2 who does the same. 840 miles in 24 hours, pretty much the limit I’d have thought.
Sounds about right - we do a run abroad, double manned which is 759 miles and we get that in around 17 - 18 hours.
ChrisArbon:
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709 miles in just under 10 and a quarter hours, last week.
Not bad with a 40 min break. If you can do that legally would that stop falsification of records
Fatboy slimslow:
lolipop:
UPS when they where in Nuneaton used to run double manned to ■■■■■■■■■■■ and backone man job that.
our shunters do that work here… 