Your cruise setting

6.9 CPM? Fuel Bonus tops out at 4. Or maybe I am misunderstanding you.

 

On the company side however, the fuel bonus doesn't nearly add up to as much money as a lease driver gets for driving slower. And when available hours are often an issue, I need to get as far down the road as possible with every hour. I simply can't afford to burn up 8 hours of driving time a week so I can get a $30 or $60 fuel bonus. I'd rather have the extra 480 miles at 36 cents a mile and still get the occasional fuel bonus too.

Just curious as to how many miles per week you have averaged this year running that fast.

 

Think he's putting the fuel savings on the lease side into terms the company guys can understand.

 

$9093/130,000 miles is 6.9cpm.

When I took ACE-2 last year they quoted the average fuel cost per mile as 24.4cpm - the best fuel cost being posted around 10cpm. That's the metric we use on the lease side, and its a 14cpm or so difference. The instructor du jour wondered how the guy did it. I know... I'm at 10.4cpm for the year so far.

But yeah, its a trade-off on the lease side to increase your gross income. On the company side, not so much. If they'd quit raising the bar or increase the fuel bonus you'd see the company guys slow down more. As long as you're chasing miles you have to think about more miles... not less fuel so much.

 

That's why I'm interested to know his avg. miles per week. I've gotten an average of $72 a week in fuel bonus. That means he would need to drive 200 miles per week more than me just to break even.

Say he gets to use 300 miles of that available 480 in a week: A whopping $36 gross for all that extra work?

I've yet to see anyone show me that the numbers work in your favor by driving faster, lease or company.

 

But driving 10 m.p.h. slower you potentially drive 100 miles a day less . You get where you are going more than an hour later and all those 65 and 70 m.p.h. trucks have taken all the truckstop parking spaces .
You're also burning over an extra hour day on your 70 hours and could lose out on a whole trip because you're out of hours .

 

You mean those 65 and 70 mph trucks that pass me three or four times a day?

Might work if every receiver was FCFS, but they're not.

 

Yeah , they pass you because they have times to stop and take the breaks other drivers cry the 14 hour clock doesn't allow .

 

Oh, I just figured they needed to fuel up that often.

 

2694 avg. miles a week, but I am paid on percentage of gross as a L/O at my company. So its quality of miles not quantity.

After all said and done I would have to run 3200 plus a week as a company driver @.36cpm to come close to taking home the net that I do as a L/O.

3200 miles a week is to hard to avg. every week. Way to much work for me.

Drive less make more