how is math related to truck driving?

Question

i gotta write a full essay on this so please give some good answers

Answer 1

the speedometer and odometer for driving lol

Answer 2

Lets see. If each board weighs 5 lbs and it is a 2inchx4inchx12 foot, how many can you put on a truck if your loading area is 52 feet long, 8 feet wide and 10 foot tall. With that and how much your diesel weighs you can max out on the scales. The max your whole rig can weigh is 80,000 pounds.
If you are the owner of the truck you want to maximize the amount of freight you can haul. You also want to maximize the amount of money you can make. Will a 2x4x 12 foot make you more money if it pays say $2 a board foot than a 4x4x 12 that pays $2 a board foot?
If your fuel tank holds 200 gallons on each side and you have 2 tanks that would be 400 gallons. If you know how much a gallon of diesel weighs you can maximize your weight out. Does #1 diesel and #2 diesel weigh the same? I don't know. If you weigh out on the scales and your load of lumber weighs 73,291lbs, how much fuel can you put on? 6709 pounds worth. How much should that cost you? How far in miles and hours can that many gallons take you? If you idle at night... how much will that cost you?

Now if you are a company driver and operate on a % basis...The load pays for 2178 miles @ 19.5%. How much will you earn to drive that many miles? Do you know how to read a map well enough to take a straight route or would you go around to the larger cities and main highways? Even if it means driving more miles? That lowers your pay per mile. It also increases your driving time. Is that an acceptable pay rate for you?


How much will it cost you per meal if you are on the road? Compare eating in the truck, meaning using a microwave and storing food in a refridgerator, to eating food in the truck stop on a 3 meal a day basis.

This is just a starter......

Answer 3

Volume.:

You need to know about volume to calculate how many boxes your trailer can hold

Weights and addition:

You need to know so you don't get stopped for being overloaded

Division:

So you can do trip planning

Rates :

So you understand the effects of speed on gas milage
And if you want to bid for your own loads

percentages:

To do your taxes

present and future values:

If you want to go independent and finance a truck

statistics:

If you want to work in the front office

linear programming:

If you want to run a large trucking company effeciently

Answer 4

Ok, well, if you are driving a long haul route, you have to keep a daily log book recording mileage, hours of service. You can only drive 70 hours in a 7 day period. There is a formula to use to figure your hours, because on the log book grid line #1 is for off duty, line #2 is for sleeper berth, #3 is for driving/on duty and line #4 is for on duty/not driving. You have to account for hours in the day for each line of duty status. Now some companies make you keep a record of mileage in each state, your fuel mileage, and tickets for weight scales. You must not exceed 80,000 lbs gross weight, but are allowed 12,000 on the front axle, and each drive axle and the trailer usually can carry around 46,000, but you have to figure the weight of the truck and weight of the fuel in your tanks.... and the trailers have adjustable axles on the rear to adjust the payload. If the load sits too far forward you get to much weight on the steering axle, and if it is too far back you get too much weight on the drive or rear axles. Each notch, depending on the distance between notches can accout for either 250 lbs per notch, or 500 lb per notch. So you will know how much to move the axles to adjust for the weight.

Now, you are going from NYC to Dallas and you have four days to get the load to Dallas and be at your appointment at the reciever on time. You have to be able to calculate how many miles you will drive total and how many you will have to drive each day to get there on time. You have to keep account of how many hours you already have used up on your Hours of Service log. If you go over your 70 hours you willl have to stop for a while to let your log book catch up with you.

Dude, I drove truck over the road for about 18 years,, it has been a while, as I am retired, and some of the Hours of Service laws may have changed, but let me tell you,, you need lots of math to be a truck driver. You use it every day. Like if you are almost on empty, you need to know how many gallons you have left in your tanks and what kind of fuel mileage you are getting so you can figure if you will make it to the next truck stop,,, all kinds of things in this business require math skills. Hope this helped you... I could write all night on this subject.

Answer 5

MPG calculations- to determine how far you can drive on a full load of fuel.
Need to be able to calculate weight loads for your trailer. (to make sure you dont exceed your limit)
Need to calculate hours per day for your logbook.
Often truckers are paid by the mile, so calculating your mileage for each load is sometimes required.
Calculating how far you can drive in the time allowed- to determine arrival times.

Answer 6

The truck drivers own a log book where they have to keep track of miles, hours and days.They have to calculate the hours they were driving, sleeping, and being awake but not driving.They have calculate how much fuel they have to get to a destination.

Answer 7

Distances, time and speed problems. It also involves frictions and inclinations problems. It is always about the problem as you yourself will have the solutions concerning the given problems about truck driving.

But to start it, you'll need a force from the engine to move the whole truck of its load.

Answer 8

Amount of mileage you are driving.

The Trailer Bed is 53' long. Transports weight.

Weigh Station located off interstate check to make sure the Trailer is not overloaded.

The amount of time you are driving.

Answer 9

The speedomiter has to do with mph or how fast you drive.
East, west, south, and north also have to do with math, direction.
Rate and time also has do deal with math