63mph vs 65 mph

Buy your own truck.

Start paying for your fuel and then we will talk.

 

I did............


You're fooling yourself if you think your time is worth less than fuel

 

Who is really a fool?

A person that thinks 2 miles per hour makes a big difference and does not understand all of the savings involved or one who does?

 

The 1 who sees fuel as worth more than time

 

Used to think like you until I sat down and did some soul searching and review of costs over several years.

But, it is your truck and I have seen many come and go who fail for same reasons.

Good luck.

 

Then you only think you understand me

 

So going back to the original question... **just wasted about 2 mins reading all the bs arguing here...

2mph you will lose about 2/10ths, so technically you should still get the high bonus. Should put you at 8.5-8.6mpg. Sometimes its nice to have those extra 2-3mph for passing but overall I think you should just stick to running what you're running. I'm learning to slow down and been trying to run with schneider/werner at 61mph and put the extra fuel $$ in my pocket. I figured out that last week, if I ran 60 instead of 65mph I would have saved about $300 in fuel and had a bigger check.

I see more and more drivers running slower and slower... people are learning.

 

You do mean as a company driver...since by this measure, the driver has no fuel cost to figure in.

And 2mph increase in average will at most gain you 27 miles in a legal maximum day (24 hours) of driving 13.5 hours....not 40-50 as you stated, and certainly not 1100 in one week [6 x 27 = 167, plus 4 hours @ 65 = 427]...since maxing out your 13.5 hours driving each day would put you at 70 on day 6 with 4 hours left for day 7...now where did day 8 go? Oh yeah day 7-8 = 34 restart.

 

If you think logically, and not using exaggerated fuel consumption results from an on board computer, you will learn that:

Fuel economy and time efficiency is the key to running at an optimum level of proficiency!

 

What should be telling is that a company driver is posting in an O/O section to get these answers. Successful owners operators understand all aspects of getting a better net. For the most part the only way a company driver can get a better net is to increase miles. But what successful O/O's have learned is that there is more money in short miles at a higher gross.

To take this out of the completely academic discussions. From February till last week when I run reports on my drivers. The ones that understand it is not about miles and look to make the most money have averaged just under 2,100 miles a week compared to a little better than 2,800 miles a week. But they are netting 33.4% more money.

Now some of the ones making the better money are still driving as fast as they are allowed. But that is because they want to not because it will get them more loads. They are the first to tell you they could get the same number of loads driving 57 as they do driving 65 or faster.