I pull tri axels a few times a month and when loaded I don't go over 58mph. But I also get tri axel pay and overweight pay. Are they paying you more to pull them compared to a tandom?
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Also you don't mention how much weight they are pulling. I suppose it's because you don't know. Maybe they don't even scale so I suppose nobody knows. Pretty tough to figue if you have a fuel mileage problem without knowing the weight.
I gather from this you are paying your drivers as self employed contractors rather than employees. This is another potential liability for you. If the tax man decides to look into you, you will likely be on the hook for all the pension plan, employment insurance and workers comp contributions that you didn't remit to the gov't. Plus interest and perhaps penalties.
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-Included is a 13% "sales" tax that Canadian companies get refunded so that makes the fuel is $1.28 Canadian dollars/litre.
-Ontario fuel tax is $.14/litre I think....that makes the fuel $1.14 CDN/litre
-The CDN dollar is running ~.91 to the US dollar....that makes it $1.04 US dollars/litre.
-3.8 litres in a US gallon x $3.94 US dollars/US gallon before any discounts.
I think NY is charging $4.50/us gallon or something like that aren't they? Minus the $.39 fuel tax = $4.11 US/US gal.
So the fuel isn't more expensive (for a Canadian company)...but it does cost more to run the highways up here and that price is buried in the price at the pump in the form of fuel tax. But you have to pay that whether you pay at the pump or pay IFTA. -
Yes they pay me $0.02 more for a Tri-axle and $25 for any reefer hooked on to the container. I dont pay that to the drivers.
Honestly, since December I was really ill and then was hospitalized for 5 weeks so during that time, drivers were on their own. Even before I slacked in watching out for the fuel costs. Business is not really my thing but now my son is managing it. How do you guys track fuel for trucks you have drivers on? I did the calculations for each truck and there is not much difference. My MPG has been getting worse since November. And the weight of containers varies. Sometimes its as little as 2000 44000.
I am paying my drivers on their company ( they are incorporated ) therefore, I do not have to pay or the EI. I am paying for there workplace insurance.
How do you guys track your fuel for trucks with drivers on them? And motivate them to save fuel?
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He's leased to a company hauling their contracted freight - not working for brokers, factoring, etc.
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Some trucking companies require that the fuel attendant enter an odometer reading before they fuel.
I flag it on my log sheet. Just write down odometer reading, weight and the amount of fuel.
You can get a bunk heater though. That is a savings $50/day easy.
Or, you know when they fill because you have the date on the reciept. You should know how many runs they did since the last fill. The miles per trip never changes so it shouldn't be too hard to figure.
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what card you use for fueling?you can set up your card to ask the driver for odometer reading everytime he fuels than at the end of the week check the actual reading on the truck to compare.i dont think theres any fat you can trim 1.5 a mile thats an average break even point for any o/o anywhere in north america.the only cure for your problem is to get better rates.
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