THE ADVENTURES CONTINUE - DFO gets a truck and hops on Schneider's IC Choice Program

There is plenty of trucking in the middle of the country. Going to either coast is not necessary. That truck can live on until it dies a natural death.... And 2 million miles b4 overhaul ? I never heard of that.

 

2 mill before a complete overhaul happens plenty. Might need a head and or a injector along the way but the bottom depending on how it was ran for those miles can hold out. Newer engines on the other hand are a totally different story. And why you can run in the middle of the country what would be the point ? You put your self in somewhat of a hurt if you cant go near a either cost as import glore comes from both sides. =)


Edit.
If you like I can take a pic of the 1996 Pete down the street he is a cattle hauler he is at 1.9m according to the ECM the truck has had a full set of injectors and a top end twice. (Last one was 150k ago) Has a old CAT in her. Guess could take this with a grain of salt also.

 

Obetz has 4 black Centuries that they have decided to do some work on before trying to sell. All seem to have between 400 and 500K on them. But they have all new rubber ,new steel wheels on the rears. Took them to the local truckwash/mobile and had them detailed. They look brand new. Not poked under the hood to see what they have done there. But while these are egr trucks that arent DEF.

 

Wow this thread is just way to long for me to pick trough?

last I read was everything you were going to pay 1026.00 per week after all exspenses. So my question is how is is going? And what do you take home after 4,108.00 dollars in all exspses per month. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

DFO.....your public awaits....

 

Im not DFO but you could kind of low ball the hell out of this. To make a avg.

Lets say you have

1100$ fixed expenses
2000$ in fuel
4000$ revenue
3000 in miles

That would leave you per week avg of 900$ x4 = 3600$ per month take home before tax's this would be 571$ per day in rev you are making to the truck.

Now these are some real low ball numbers. It pretty much you made a avg if 1.33$ per mile out of your loads and got 5.7mpg.

you can change the numbers to your liking as what you think ur looking for per mile and you better be doing better then 5.7 mpg unless ur a cattle hauler doing 85 with a 600hp+ truck fully loaded.

 

gas is way off

 

Aye, I did that on purp. Went for the worst of the worst.

 

well........
$4000 in revenue / $1.40 mile = 2857 miles
2857 miles / 6 mpg = 476 gallons
476 * $3.50 = $1666
$1666 + $1100 = $2766
$4000 - $2766 = $1234

so, there you have it. Low ball / high ball on everything, but that's kinda where I started my figuring before I took the leap

 

Wish fuel would get that darn cheap over here. /cry still sitting at 4.00$ in boise, id :/