Selling your semi?

Like I said, that's not my bread and butter, but 200 miles of deadhead vs. $1000 in your pocket can be nice from time to time. I try to gross as much weekly as possible, since I'm doing a 50/50 split with the owner.

 

Unless my math is wrong...You telling us that your buddy was netting $42/trip after paying you & fueling the truck????

And was being paid 97cent per mile gross (assuming you had to run back to OH asap, therefore had to deadhead)

Wow.

Here are my assumptions for my math:

716 miles, truck burns 143gals @ 5mpg, which costs $358 @ $2.50/gal

 

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So your buddy was making $1.17 a mile plus fuel. As long as he got 6mpg the fuel was covered? So approximately $1.50 a mile all in with half those miles empty? You call that good money?

 

How about a 2015 intl prostar w cummins isx 450hp. Dynos at 500+. 310K miles. 10 spd. Cummins rebuilt motor at 292k. New liners, pistons, rings. Gets 7.3 mpg w 44k of payload. Got a potato chip load now, getting 9.1.
Extended cummins warranty to 4/18. That rebuild cost me 0.

 

Having to be rebuilt at less than 300k is why people are rightfully terrified of the ISX. Good luck with it.

 

Was burning oil. Cummins said rings were carboned up due to high rates of egr. I asked will it happen again. Reply was that Cummins redesigned liner piston clearances to prevent this problem from reoccurring.