"Approx. Miles driven" on applications.

I think a general rule of thumb .. 10,000 miles per month for OTR or 7,500 mpm for local/regional seems about right. That's what I've always done and seemed to work for me.

These numbers are on the low side for many, but are realistic and believable for most.

 

I keep good information, with a grain of salt.

Local work driving a couple hundred miles a day is real tough. You will not accumulate many miles.

There should also be a line stating which states you drive in already.

Your taxes should include a per deim flat rate deduction with a specific number of work days you spent in trucking that year. For example 2001 Wife and I did 306 service days. We were a team that year. Thus 7000 miles in the truck results in approx 220 to 290 thousand miles. One tractor I got at 20 miles virgin was turned in at 221,000. in 10 months. Remaining months was me on solo at around 3000 miles a week to 5000. It's not hard to generate a approximate estimate of mileage run in 2001.

Go back almost 40 years it's around 3 million in total to the 80's including all sorts of work. Sorted by tax year from 1986 on.

The records you speak of related to aircraft type, hours in type, hours in flight overall in your personal pilot's log which stays with you pernamently, we don't have that sort of record keeping yet for drivers in trucking. We are not pilots in trucking. Ive done some flying myself. Not enough to complete flight school yet or solo. But Im pretty close. However 1980's flying does not equal to the demands of the area post 9-11 which has been turned into controlled air space. I have to use a 4 digit transponder as a deaf person if I was solo. And other things to FAA prior to take off. Or find another airport outside of controlled air space.

Trucking and Piloting are not one and same. There are too many unwashed, unskilled new people showing up waving mint CDL's from school mills that teach them just enough to pass very basic state CDL tests driving 4 blocks Much less Donner on three feet of snow and chains during a winter howler at 80,000 pounds. Which would be a equivilant of a piloting of a 747 into Singapore during a Pacific Typhoon on instrument.

Understand?

 

I am sure there are those who keep up with it down to the last mile, but I think an average of what you think you have driven would work. Husbands' statement has the miles accumalated on it weekly and year to date. A last of the year statement would have to be kept each year in order to keep up with it, but have never thought to keep it for this reason really.

 

I just make up a number based on the amount of years I've been trucking.

Actually being a pilot is in some ways a lot like trucking. While drivers aren't pulling in 200-300,000 after moving up, you can make more money by hauling bigger things. The day to day is a lot like driving a dedicated run. Once a pilot bids a "line" (route) they fly the same route over and over again to the same cities until they have enough seniority to bid a different line. ( maybe more flying hours or days off they want)

I have a commercial license, but couldn't see the light through the dumpster fire that was the airline industry in the 90's. My goal was to haul freight, cause boxes don't #####.

 

To me, "approximate" means "take a guess".

 

A nice guess. Be conservative. If I spouted BS and said im a platinum 10 million miler and not yet 30 you all will laugh me off the earth.

 

Honestly I don't think anyone even reads that part of the application. Next company I lease onto I'm going to write 23,000,000 and see if anyone notices.

 

Old log books? I have 20 yrs worth, I can give you a pretty fare guesstimate.