Life at American Central Transport (ACT)

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Delivered this morning in Hernando,Ms and reloaded in Memphis going to Ft Scott,Ks. One nice thing since the price of oil has went down and we get a cost plus fuel discount right now we are paying about .50 below pump price since the street price really has not went down much.

 

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Delivery in Ft Scott,Ks did not go as planned. It was a broker load with 2 PO's and only one of the PO's was scheduled to deliver so I had to wait until the next day to deliver the second one so I did not get empty until 29 hours after my original appointment. Not a biggie because that means I will get $525.00 in detention pay. Once finally empty had a choice of 3 loads 2 of them were to Wisconsin and one to Bismarck,Nd so I took the Bismarck one since I had not been to ND in awhile. It was the longest one too and it is only 11000 lbs so that means great fuel mileage normally but I had one heck of a headwind. Will deliver it this afternoon then who knows where I will be headed.

 

Wind was out of the north for me both ways.

 

Delivered this afternoon in Bismarck and I am not planned yet but they told me to deadhead to Shelby,Ia which is about 590 miles. Works for me and they will assign a load in the morning.

 

Ran numbers through calculator again since I started 3/17 to end of pay period 5/9 I have been paid on 20541 miles and taken home $11579.19 after my .07 maintenance fund per mile is already taken out which breaks down to .563 per mile. Fuel has cost me $11944.08 or .581 per mile. I can't complain too much because I don't know of any company jobs where I can make .56 per mile and own a truck at the end of 46 months which there is only 44 months left of that.