What Are You Guys Getting for Fuel Mileage?

Actually, a KM is .6215 miles.
A favorite trick by Canadian BSers is to figure their MPG in Canadian because 5 MPG instantly looks like 6 MPG.

 

Are you sure?

 

I thought 1 was bigger than .6?

 

If you drive one kilometer, you've driven .62 miles.

Now you can tell your girlfriend that 6" is 15.25 centimeters...

 

I know a km is about 3280 feet, which is 2000 less than a mile.

 

Question for all you 62 mph'ers.

What is your hourly? How much $$$ per hour does going 62 save you?

I've only ever driven as a company driver and for me, there is no incentive for me to drive 62. I can understand why an O/O would drive 62, for the fuel savings. But I'm mostly curious about the opportunity cost. If going 62 saves you $6000 a year, how many more hours are you putting in to make that $6000. How many loads are you missing out on because you don't get down till X hours later in the day.


I come from an expediter background and for me, it was a safety issue on longer runs. If I ran at 62 mph instead of 75, I don't have time for naps on a 1000 mile overnight run. The time savings, meant slept. Or, they meant me being unloaded and being able to get another load, a day earlier. Which meant, more money.

Now, as a local company driver, it doesn't make sense for me to drive for fuel mileage
. I make commission and the more loads, I do in a day, means more money.

But if there was a bonus, I would consider it. But I try to look at things as a truck owner and I don't see how going slower could make more money if you had unlimited loads.

All the arguments I've seen were about maximizing annual revenue and not maximizing hourly revenue.

 

Where? I haven't seen it. I use to keep track of every detail because I wanted to be an o/o and from the numbers I kept, it never made sense to run at 62. Yea you can improve your overall if you ignore your time.

Well my time is worth money. That is the arguement that I've seen all 62 mph people ignore.