How Many Miles Per Week/month

I got in a 1/4 mile at CDL school today.

In my first six months, I rolled 58,000 miles in two trucks, including 5 days per month home time, and six days on the yard. Last week was a 3300 mile week. This week probably won't get to 2500. I was routed into the Northeast on a three-drop load that was horribly timed. 4 days, 900 miles. I was able to take a 34 hour reset between two of the stops. I'm headed to Indiana now. Hopefully the Meat Patch will treat me well.

But hey, some weeks are good, and some are like this week.

My first year OTR we avgd 4400-4800 per week as a team. Sometimes 5200? Give or take. Been a couple of years but I believe that is about right. Driving 10 hrs a day.

I did 175 today. Maybe 800 - 1000 for a week.

Woohoo!

Mine is a little different as I am a trainer. Weekly miles vary depending on what stage my student is in. First well is usually around 3000 miles give or take 400. Second week is usually 4-5k. Next two to three weeks, depending on how long the student takes to finish, are usually 6-7k sometimes as low as 5k.

When I was solo, I was averaging around 2400 in the beginning and around 3k towards the end.

Dedicated Walmart Rocky Mountain area. Best week 3755. Average 3200. They have loads as much as you want to run. I go up to Montana and Idaho and down to Las Vegas when I get back I will do a short Salt Lake City run and it helps bump up my milage. I will.usually run 5 or 6 days then take a load to Western Colorado and do a 34 at home. Couldn't ask for a better fleet. Coming up on 3 yrs

We got our own truck March 4th. First five months OTR , we averaged 2200 miles per week. Note that I said 'we'. Since switching to Wal-Mart dedicated OTR, three weekends ago, we've averaged 5700/week. This entire week we're on hometime due to a doc appt and being told by the weekend dispatcher to deadhead home 455 miles (i think she got in trouble for that yesterday), so that avg will be less now.

Since going solo in December 2014, I've driven 210,030 miles according to my GPS, which comes to an average of 2,334 miles per week over 90 weeks. That's with two different companies, some OTR , some regional , all flatbed, and includes all downtime. Best week solo was over 3,600, worst weeks were 0.

Let me add this for people who are new to trucking. When you first go solo you should shoot for maybe 2,200 - 2,500 miles per week. After a few months you should be shooting for 2,500 - 3,000 miles per week. You can legally turn well over 3,000 miles per week but don't push too hard in the beginning. You already have a ton of stress trying to learn how to handle that rig and manage your life on the road. If you push too hard too soon you'll likely burn yourself out and you'll be driving tired so often that an accident is far more likely.

Even after many years of experience and a very high level of ambition I used to shoot for 3,000 - 3,200 miles per week. That made for a great paycheck but also allowed me enough rest. It was a sustainable amount of miles. There were times I turned more than that because I ran in an era of paper logbooks so I could cheat all I wanted to. It just wasn't sustainable to turn more than about 3,200 miles per week. Above that you're just not getting enough rest to be safe out there and you wear down over time.

Remember, safety is always the #1 priority and you have the rest of your life to make all the money you want to make. Don't become shortsighted and push yourself into a mistake or burn yourself out.

And to be clear, this wasn't aimed at anyone. I just wanted new drivers to know what they can use as a safe, solid goal.

Thanks for all of the replies. Brett, your numbers are right on. There was a post on here within the last week of a rookie claiming 3300-3600 per week. I knew those were "inflated" quite a bit. Just wanted some real life numbers. I do not understand why someone would post numbers like that on a forum filled with TRUCKERS! We all know when someone is peeing on our shoes and trying to convince us that it's raining.