There is money to be made with 9+ mpg trucks

You can't drive the 200,000+ miles as a solo to make the same profit going 13 mph slower does with 140,000 miles.

Of course I would rather go 13 mph slower than you and only drive around 89,000 miles to make the same profit you do driving 140,000 miles that is around 51,000 more miles by you to make the same profit in a year. It appears I will be at home alot more unless I want to make more profit than you do.

Could even roll those profit gains back into truck with investments to gain even more of a fuel mileage spread....wait I have already done that and I don't think I will show the numbers between a 70 mph truck @ 5.7 mpg and a 57 mph truck @ 9.15 mpg. The fuel savings alone is $38,433 in one years time.....WOW! That is the cost of one nice Harley or two....

Maybe somewhere in the middle works for you, but I want to drive less, be at home more and make more per mile.

 

No fuel saving incentive as a company driver, by all means mash on it and go as fast as you can to get as many miles as you can since more miles is money to you without having to worry about fuel cost or the huge benefit of fuel savings in your pocket.

You probably make more than you company does off your truck due to this wasteful practice that is also a poor business plan by your company owner.

You should always be prepared to find another company that will let you do the samething with the more miles more attitude and ungoverned trucks.

Company Drivers with no fuel saving incentive should go as fast as they can covering every mile they can legally log.

 

I believe my posting the numbers shows the opposite.

I have done it your way for years and I can tell you going slower not only makes more money, but you drive fewer miles to make that money too. Have you done it my way before because you have not ever mentioned it if you have that leads me to believe you have never tried it to see if it works for you too?

 

I know I was listening to Kevin Rutherford talking to a trucking company owner on his radio show the other night and he was saying he giving back $3 out of every $4 in fuel saved back to the driver. I was think more like a 50/50 split with even the truck owner doing some extra things to get even more fuel mileage out of truck besides slowing down.

I believe a company driver would take better care of a truck with a fuel mileage bonus system. That driver wants that truck running right to get that bonus and they will idle alot less too. That is why I used MVT's fuel bonus program as an example of a fleet where it works and over 50% of the fleet is over 9 mpg earning those bonuses.