Here's exactly what i tell other drivers. "You're not going to do exactly what i do, but try this:" Week 1: Dont change a thing, drive the speed you normally drive (65) and figure out your fuel milage every fuel stop. Week two: switch the truck into manual and drive the speed you did during week one. (65) figure out your MPG each time you fuel. Week three: Keep the truck in Manual and Reduce the speed you normally drive by 3 miles per hour (62) Figure out your MPG each time you fuel. Week four: Keep the truck in Manual and reduce your speed by 2 miles per hour. (60) Figure out your MPG each time you fuel. Week 5: Keep the truck in manual and reduce your speed 2-3 miles per hour (57-fifty eight) Figure out your MPG each time you fuel Week 6: Keeping in mind the weather, terrain, and weights of the loads you hauled over the past few weeks, go back over the records of your MPG when you fueled. It should be fairly easy to see that there is an improvement each week, especially when you compare stats from week one to those of week six. If you honestly followed what was suggested each week, compare MPG for week six, to week one. Figure out what your quarterly fuel bonus is for MPG at week six and for week one. Figure out what the current fuel bonus is for the average MPG for week one and week six, .01, .02, .03 perhaps? Figure out which fuel bonus check deposit would be larger in your bank account week one or week six. There you have it, a bit more in depth than what i normally verbalize but now its in black and white and your hubby can see 1. The difference in MPG by driving in automatic and manual 2. What slowing down just a few miles an hour can do for his MPG And of course, he didn't even have to drive 55 to do it
If you live close to Shelbyville why not go to work directly for tyson haul the same freight fo more money?
This is a possibility. Since we started Butterball our miles have dried up. The guys that are running BB are doing ok to good and some great thanks to 50% deadhead miles. Those of us stuck on Tyson are pissed to put it bluntly. I think the problem is BB's Contract is for 15 trucks. (a significant portion of out fleet) and Tyson is a load count contract. I dont know this for a fact. It's just the only reason I can figure that guys are hauling BB from AR to Miami and deadheading back because they "are not allowed to haul any other freight that BB" and those on Tyson are getting assloads of 250-300mi runs. Which would be ok if it were drop and hook abut I'm burning on average of 25hrs for 300mi worth of paid miles right now. So far in the last two weeks I have yet to find one happy driver on either account. I'm giving it till the end of the month then I'm either going back to flatbed or finding a different job.
