Whats up with 62 mph?

Really? Just cause its doesn't pertain, in your opinion, to this thread you're trying to say he isn't making a valid point?

Where is this wonderful world where there are no traffic, lights, cities and hills? I'd really like to know...

You guys are to funny!

BTW my fuel mileage doesn't increase when I slow down, it stays the same. Moral to the story...... not all trucks are the same! Except it...

 

They don't and will never understand this, it's useless....Just because their turd can't get decent fuel mileage running over 60 mph then no ones can, and anyone who says different is a liar... Let them keep living in their own clueless little world....

 

Of course you can get "decent" fuel mileage over 60. But the point is you can get much better fuel mileage by slowing down - if your truck gets worse mileage under 60, there's a good chance you have a mechanical issue.

The real problem is that due to traffic, lower speed limits off of limited access highways, the effects of shippers/receivers with appointments, etc, there are only degrees of "gain" achieved by running faster. One may be able to squeeze in an additional load, but at the price of higher fuel costs. One offsets the other.

The folks who really benefit from this have a business model that pays by the load - bullhaulers, rock haulers. Folks paid strictly by the mile, especially company types with no skin in the game, do better running themselves to death at higher speeds. The rest of us deal with diminishing returns to one extent or another.

 

Let them run their speed and ill run mine..its a free country and as long as im not running the min hwy speed then you super truckrs can go fly a kite...

 

Someone mentioned the "sweet spot" along with gearing etc and mpg. Now the truck I run, the sweet spot is 1450 rpm. Anything lower then that and the motor struggles to go down the road and it actually burns more fuel when it is struggling.

I actually get better milage running over 65 mph then I do running under 65 mph. Been running this particular truck for 5 years so I know how to get the best milage out of it.

As far as running a log book, LOL, childsplay. The fact is that if you are running 55 mph, you will not see an average of 54 mph unless you never get off the superslab. That means pulling on to it as soon as you wake up and sleeping in the pickle parks along the side of the superslab.

As far as rounding to the nearest 15 minutes, this goes both ways. 8 minutes and you should be rounding up which means you loose at the end.

 

He has no valid point on this thread or the other one

 

He's trying to talk himself out of buying a truck by adding every cost possible into the equation ...

Bread , milk , health care , day care , home phone , ham , cheese , pop tarts , cokes , bottled water. , sun glasses , shoe laces , vitamins , tooth paste , dog food , cat food , TV , salt, pepper , cooler , ice, piss bottles ,diapers , retirement , Ira , car insurance , home owners insurance , deductible , ink pens , pencils , solar energy , deer tags , fruity Peebles , xM radio , cb , hats , gloves , cell , trash bags , envelopes, stamps , mayo , mustard , kool aide , bowls , spoons , forks , napkins , electric bill , lawn mower , weed eater , A/C , hot water , rent , mortgage , pillows , sheets , decor , medication , landscaping , paint , fences , mirrors , picture frames , list goes on ...

The few valid points he made I acknowledged was

Scale tickets / showers , tolls in a CPM

The point made in another thread was I gave a formula to figure CPM for a TRUCK
He came in with a laundry list of exclusions and what ifs ... ink pens , loaf of bread etc ... Trailers ( when it was truck only ) I even stated it was FAKED or I thinker I said HYPED numbers ...

IMO :

Health care , retirement , loafs of bread , time etc ...

Are not a cost to run a TRUCK down the road those are BENEFITS and CONTROLABLES ... A CONTROLABLE that he can choose to have in his business plan for his CPM ... I'm not disputing that ...

But it is not a cost of running a TRUCK down the highway

I may also give him a valid point on a cell phone ... But not really because in today's time they ate more common than land lines in most cases or pay phones so you'd have one whether you were company or O/O

Tax write off ? Yes

Cost to run the TRUCK ... I disagree

 

I mentioned sweet spot ... Every engine is different , every truck is different .. Could be 57,61,64,67, 68. That was my point

 

Lastly ...

I stated in the other thread ... Your numbers may not be the same as mine or the next guys ... Everyone is different

Now with that said

Benefits such as Health Care , retirement , IRA , what have you
If your a company driver is it a cost to having a job ?

No ...

It's called a Benefit package ..

In my business plan ( not that I'm king of trucks ) I buy my own health care as others do also ... I provide in a iRA at state farm just like I did as a company driver in a 401k plan ...

But ...

I take those costs from my profits or wage earnings and don't count them as a cost to run the TRUCK down the road

The other valid point he had I'll give credit to him that I left out is
Accounting ... Personally we do our own .. But I can see that as a cost to the truck but minimal at best maybe 0.01 .

 

Fair enough. My truck gets its best mileage around 1200 rpm, and is geared to get that at about 55. I can run faster at progressively worse fuel economy, and do when the situation requires it - but why should I on a regular basis? Just to make the supertruckers who can't manuever in traffic happy? I think not.

OTOH, maybe its just that your truck is set-up to spec's that have been obsolete for 30 years. Just something to ponder...