What do 4,000 miles a week look like

Keep dreaming

 

For a single driver 4000 miles a week is impossible if you're running legal. Your daily average will be approximately 600 miles +/-
That's 60 mph x 10 hours daily. All of the above is possible in a perfect world, no breakdowns, no traffic delays, no waiting in a truck stop for your next load. No waiting to get loaded or unloaded. More realistic miles will be 2000 - 2500 a week. If you're talking team, just double the above numbers, and make sure you can sleep while the truck moves with your teammate at the wheel.
As far as your questions go yes to all, except "easy peasy" or "average", the answer to those questions is a big fat NO, I repeat NO, NFW!

 

It's doable, but most companies are not set up efficiently enough to make it happen.

I run as a team, and in 3.5 years we have only had 2 weeks where we pulled off almost 8000 miles and were bone dry for hours at the end of it.

We also have a customer that is a 2500 mi "straight shot" from home terminal (trailer is preloaded, so no time wasted there) which helps.

Unless you are running 2000 miles on the same load each way it's unlikely there will be many 4000 mile weeks.

 

Probably don't have electronic logs. You can do 4000 a week, but it will be on paper logs and definitely not legal.

Not that the company would care how much trouble you got yourself into because as a 1099 contractor, you don't work for them.

 

Only time I ever broke 4k in a week was running a dedicated route from Fort Worth to El Paso in a 73mph truck-just drop/hook at terminals and turn back around. Was only paid about 3600 miles, but I literally ran 4030 miles. After my reset they called me into safety, sent me for a drug test, and verified my logs. I actually ran it legal, just lucked out that week. Honestly one of the only times I've ever even broke 3k in week. I always enjoyed drivers that say "I've got over 3k miles this week, didn't make the cutoff for my last trip before payday." Which doesn't count lol

 

Solo cant be done...period on elogs I am an O/O with Schneider no speed restrictions and 3300 is about tops...I do alot of 600 to 1200 mile trips all drop and hook....

Be Safe Out There

Captain Dave

 

I'm on elogs too, and basically what you're saying is with Schneider it can't be done.

Depending where you run, the speed of your truck and how much dropping/picking/live loading you do, it could be done legally.

A driver running coast to coast through "fly over country" in a 70mph truck could post up 700mi days 5-6 days a week.