Richmond, KY

Here's a little math problem:

Which is least?
1. 4+10+1
2. 10+5
3. 2+10+3

My dispatcher seems to think #2, as she suggested I start my 10 hour break early this afternoon so that I could get up at 2am and drive to Indiana from Knoxville in order to "get there as soon as I can". Wow. Unless my dispatcher has made a breakthrough regarding the physics of time and space, it still doesn't matter how I slice the drive hours and when I take the ten hour break, the total time and distance required to get from point A to point B remain the same.

The question arises because, for the first time, my workdays are limited by the DOT's 70-hour rule, which says I can't be on-duty more than 70 hours in an eight day period. As of yesterday, I'd logged 61 hours in the past 7 days, leaving me with 9 hours today with which to drive, scale, and fuel. I used most of them today and I'm still about 2 hours from my delivery. The good news is I only have 6.5 hours available to work tomorrow, so it will be a short day. The bad news is I'll be 8 hours from home.