In my line of work, not only do you fuel up, you fuel up where you stop. Either at the beginning of the day or at the end of the day, and avoid fueling during the middle of your day as much as possible.
A superload can be so big that you become severely limited on where you can even fuel. They will send you down some two lane road for hundreds of miles, and you may be forced to drop your trailer and bobtail 20-30 miles just to fuel and go back. Huge waste of time.
On a high value load, there are 2 safe places for the load:
1. Shipper
2. Receiver
You cannot get truck stop happy (meaning your trip planning consists of you mapping out your route by the truck stop availability) or truck stop brand happy (when you plan on ending your day at the closest Loves to your destination). Big money load, if you can’t make it to a receiver, you stop out a couple hundred miles away. And if you don’t have the hours, don’t attempt to pull that load. You don’t want to grab a $14mil load and do a 34. Your customers will call down evil upon you.
Fueling for the load vs. filling up??
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Now that’s the level of complication/compensation I want to graduate to one day.
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Some regions in the US will have a big difference in fuel prices just going from one state to another. So adding another stop can easily save you $10. I shop for my own fuel using NASTC, and I commonly see these big differences in fuel prices.F4T6UY Thanks this. -
I get paid by weight, but from the assigned targeted weight I only get 1 cent per kilogram extra.
So if I can carry an extra 200 kilos, it’s only $2.00 a load difference, three loads a day, $6.00. It cost more than that to go out of my way for an extra fuel up. -
Ummm, nobody was talking about that situation. It has absolutely nothing to do with the question. LOLPE_T Thanks this. -
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I only fuel for the load if the load is heavy enough that topping off will put me too far over gross to risk it. It can happen.
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I keep my tanks full, it all averages out at the end of the year.
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