Double Yellow's Company Driver to Independent Thread

I know that I use company's card at p/J and it seems to save $15+ a fill up but before prices started dropping it was $30-60 per fill up.

 

You'll find that your savings with NASTC (and probably other cost+ programs) vanish when prices are rising. What you're seeing is the cash price creeping down when prices fall (great savings on paper), but it will always track upward immediately (small or no savings).

 

well, you're doing it wrong. You were supposed to just look at how much you saved over the pump price. and brag when you fill at places that overcharge. didn't you pay attention at the NASTC class ? They told me not to think too much, just let it work for me. lol.

 

it looked real good in DEC getting 60-90 cents off pump price

 

I'm leased to Conway Truckload, we buy at PFJ mostly, some Love's, for company discount + FSC, usually nicely below pump price. Free showers. Like Rollin Coal, fuel and go, transflo and shower on Obamabreak. Company has a fuel desk for on-the-minute pricing (very volatile, even intra-day sometimes) so I usually plan my trips first around 70hr clock, then fuel cost, then stop locations. And routes before any of this starts. If I need fuel, I buy fuel. While fuel cost is the biggest item on my P&L statement, and I really appreciate the fuel desk support, saving $10 bucks isn't worth waiting in line for half an hour or more.

Hmmm. I wonder if the Pilot fuel card would add on to my corporate discount, lower my price even more?

DY's post (incredible) is helpful for me, mostly to help focus on the economics of owning a truck business. It might seem like a tangent, but I spent over $60K on fuel last year, and that's a pretty big number.

The way fuel prices don't really track barrel price, the way the FSC lags in response (totally BS, this is the digital age, remember?) and the pump prices add up, in my 2015 arithmetic, to a conspiracy. We're the fodder in a game played by rich and powerful forces in the energy commodity. So while I like saving a few bucks at the pump, and I do that as often as possible, in the end I pay what they want, knowing I'm probably getting vaselined again.

 

Double yellow im about to order some oil sample things. What should i order im gonna use the polaris Testing kits but not buying from KR site as he only has 5 for like $156? but i can get them from polars for 10 for 150+... Should i do the Basic Engine , Advanced Engine , Advanced Engine PLUS this is where im getting this from. http://www.polarislabs.biz/lubricants.aspx Its gonna be my first oil sample but as my truck seems to blow black smoke every now and then it seems i wanna get a sample done and find out why.

 

Black smoke means rich mixture. Either leaking injectors, weak turbo/boost leaks or misadjusted valves.

 

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