OK, didn't mean to be harsh.
OK, so here you go - I don't think its going to be what you were expecting:
Departed Station Lane, Holme Upon Spalding Moor at 04:38 hrs running at 37.8 tonnes loaded with milk powder for Barry Callebaut at Sovereign Way, Chester. Arrived at 7:10 am, a journey time of 2hrs 32 minutes. Motorways mainly filled with the lorries running back in off nights and running out for early drops.
Unloaded and returned to HOSM empty, weighing out at Callebauts at 15.6 tonnes. Departed Callebauts at 08:50 and arrived back at HOSM at 11:32... a journey time of 2hrs 42 minutes.
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Total round trip...412km so roughly 206km each way. Therefore for a 128 mile return journey NOT IN RUSH HOUR, the presence of cars on the road added 10 minutes.
So..the return journey was done 20 tonnes lighter but took 10 minutes longer. In addition to that on the outbound journey most of the distance between J25 and J24 on the M62 was done at 35 MPH because its a bloody steep hill. In fact there was only about a mile between J25 and J22 where I was at 56MPH. On the return journey it was 56MPH all the way from J21 to J25.
The delays were mainly around J11-J12 on the M62 and J25 on the M62 westbound primarily due to the amount of cars trying to cut into L1 from L2 for the exit at the 300 yard marker. Anyone driving this route regularly will confirm this.
FYI: The regular Zigzag pattern on the inner most trace is the distance trace. Each peak is 5km. If you look at the outbound journey trace, the zigzags are regular throughout however if you look at the return journey, there are two distinct places where the peaks are further apart..at 09:30hrs and 10:20hrs which are J11 and J25 on the M62. If you look at the speed trace at those points you'll see that it drops to around 10KPH for a couple of minutes. You can also check for yourself that the return distance was the same as the outbound journey.
The next trace is the mode trace...rest, other work, driving. Thinnest line is rest, middle is other work, thickest is driving. At 9:20 I had stopped on the motorway for so long that the tacho switched itself from driving to other work for a brief period.
Outer trace is the speed trace and shows two distinct drops on the return journey and also from 5:35am to 05:50am, the amount of speed I dropped climbing from J25 to J22 on the M62 on the outbound journey when I was loaded.
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If you look at the chart you'll see that after I had returned form Chester, I did another short run. If you work out the driving time between leaving Chester and when I finally finished for the day, you'll find its about 5 minutes short of 4.5hrs. What this means is that if I had been delayed another 5 minutes on the way back from Chester, I'd have to have taken an additional 45 minute break thus meaning I'd have finished not at 13:55 but at 14:50...NEARLY AN HOUR.
So there you go Marc - over to you. And no, including additional tacho breaks in this hour delay is not goalpost shifting because they'd have to be taken.
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