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Either you didn't fully read my post or you're really bad at math.

I'll make it easy for the kiddies reading at home and do a one day example.

How many hours can we drive once we start our clock? 11 hours.
Say both drivers are running at $1.50

Driver A, averages 50 MPH, gets 9 MPG and drives 11 hours. 550 miles.
Driver B, averages 60 MPH, gets 7 MPG and drives 11 hours. 660 miles.

Fuel is $2 a gallon.

Which driver earned more money net at the end of the day?

Driver A: 550 x $1.50 = $825
Fuel costs 550 ÷ 9 MPG x $2 = $122
Net after fuel = $703

Driver B: 660 x $1.50 = $990
Fuel costs 660 ÷ 7 MPG x $2 = $189
Net after fuel = $801

By going faster you can book and move freight which will more than cover the extra fuel costs.

The only scenario/operation that it does NOT pay to go faster is if you're on a dedicated account where the amount of revenue/miles you can earn/pull is capped per week.

You could even make a case if you rely on a dispatcher. There's no telling if they will book loads for you that will maximize your hours/availability.. so it might be better off to not risk it and try to save fuel for the week vs risking you might have to sit.

However here you don't ever have to sit if you don't want to being YOU are in control.
I was pointing out going slow and better mpgs don't always pay off and the math proves that case very well.

 

Okay.. prove it

I gave my mathematical examples why don't you being you've done the "comparisons"?

Mathematically it just doesn't work to your view running at the same rate unless both drivers are doing to same amount of miles/revenue.

The more revenue earned by going faster more than makes up for the loss in mpgs.

Bare in mind this is coming from someone who hasnt broke 3000 miles in a week since I've been here lol but that's a different story.

 

I'll take it further.. say the slower driver gets an extra .10 a mile vs the faster driver.


Driver A $1.50 all miles
Driver B $1.40 all miles

Driver A, averages 50 MPH, gets 9 MPG and drives 11 hours. 550 miles.
Driver B, averages 60 MPH, gets 7 MPG and drives 11 hours. 660 miles.

Fuel is $2 a gallon.

Driver A: 550 x $1.50 = $825
Fuel costs 550 ÷ 9 MPG x $2 = $122
Net after fuel = $703

Driver B: 660 x $1.40 = $924
Fuel costs 660 ÷ 7 MPG x $2 = $189
Net after fuel = $735

Thats right.. the driver that got 2 MPGs more and got .10 more per mile earned less for day the than the faster driver lol.

 

I used an 11 hour day as an example.
You could use endless mathematical examples and in each the faster driver hauling more freight will always earn more than the slower driver hauling less freight. (Baring both are running at similar rates)
Still waiting for anybody here to show a mathematical way to disprove that case.
It wasn't happened because it's not possible.

Don't like 11 hour day?
Okay how about two different drivers booking freight and trip planning based on working a full week aiming to drive 8 hours a day.
Driver A books freight aiming at averaging 50 mph.
Driver B books freight aiming at averaging 60 mph.
Just for the heck of it I'll give the slower driver an extra .10 a mile just to further prove my case.


Driver A: average speed of 50 MPH, fuel 9 MPG, drives 8 hours a day
Driver B: average speed of 60 MPH, fuel 7 MPG, drives 8 hours a day

Driver A at $1.50 all miles ran 2800 miles.
Driver B at $1.40 all miles ran 3360 miles.

At $2 a gallon.. fuel costs
Driver A: $622
Driver B: $960

Driver A revenue $4200 - $622 in fuel = $3578
Driver B revenue $4704 - $960 in fuel = $3744

The driver running at .10 a mile cheaper and getting 2 MPG LESS still profits more at the end of the week... all by simply pulling more freight in the same amount of time.

So I don't wanna hear going slower is better BS.
It is better sometimes but in a lot of operations it's not and math proves that case, still waiting for it to be disproven by math.

In the example I gave above, if both drivers ran at the same rate the faster driver would have earn $502 more than the slower driver!
$500 just by going faster and pulling more freight in the same amount of driving time.. still giving up 2 mpg!

I mean cmon man!

Now if you wanna bring up how driving 11 hours a day is not the most profitable of operations you could choose... i agree dude.
You know what i do? 2-3-4 loads a day.
2200-2800 miles a week working 7 days.
Back when times were good I aimed for 350 miles a day at $2 all miles which was NOT difficult at all. I knew if i ran at those numbers I'd clear around $3000 to me after costs including that $1100 in fixed costs.
Also because I spent soo much time at customers and didn't run a lot of hours off my 70 I would always have a good amount of hours to work with and not having to worry about running low on hours.
Plus doing the short runs means less miles on the truck which means less maintenance and also the truck holds it value more
Win win win all the way around.
That is until freight tanked and now I'm being forced to run longer loads because theres less loads overall to play "connect the loads" with.

I'm not disagreeing with you on shorter runs are better... my operation is based around that.
Picking and choosing an operation to run is a different topic.

All I was intending to do was disprove the narrative that going slow always means you'll earn more. I see it posted all the time and it simply is not true.
Okay next lol

 

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