my first idle charge

that's crazy...hope you found a better company....I checked them off my short list (for FL) ...I drive for Conway TL ...as long as your mpg stays above 6.25 (over 3 month period) you wont have any issues here

 

going down hill maybe . last trips 13,575 and 44,500 lbs in the box. Spokane Wa. to Colton yrd 7.4 mpg never over 61mph. i also made 1400.00 last week "please"

 

I only average 6.3 mpg with the Volvo D13 I drive. Then again, my loads average 47,500 lbs and I drive the I-5 exclusively, pulling the passes in Oregon and Cali throughout the week. So, I guess 6.3 isn't too bad.

 

Wow! You made $1,400 last week? You did that in 7 days and have only been driving for less than 1 year?

That's impressive....

That's $200 a day which at 30 cpm is 666 miles per day or 4,662 miles in 1 week. Pray tell, how did you pull that off?

 

Woohoo! Got a $67 idle bonus this week! Even when I idled for days during the crazy heat, I just tracked my idle time, submitted it to my DM, and was never charged, in fact, I even got a few $$ idle bonus when I was well over the 40% threshold. When it's hot, I am NEVER going to suffer, that's just the way it is, and I'm glad they haven't given me grief over that. I think May will have to put APUs on sometime soon, too many states are being strict about idling. Unless you have a Hamster, then you're exempt...

 

May provided APU's at one time. I was told by someone in management they won't put them on any more because they aren't "cost effective" related to intial cost and recovery of said costs due to how soon they turn the trucks over.

 

That was sarcasm jones. 7.8 mpg max load come on. same with the $1400 my 2 week total was $960.00 .pretty pathetic

 

Sounds like a bunch of operators weren't using them correctly and the repairs became an issue.

At 1 vs 10 gallons of fuel a night, yeah, it makes a $36 per night difference in fuel. For 100 nights a year or more, that's well over $3600 or more in fuel costs alone.


Every hour on the hour meter for that APU is an hour NOT put on the main engine. One hour on the engine if 50 miles driving. So that's well over 40,000 miles (100 * 8* 50 ) annually. 3 oil changes is another $900 so we are up to $4500 in savings annually.

It's paid for in two years.