Aero Truck Fever to make the most profit in trucking per mile!

Hey Dice, do you even have a clue how those standards would be measured? I do, lets see if you can do a little reading comprehension.

 

For someone who doesn't care, you sure spend plenty of time ranting about it...

 

Lol, well Dice here is the quote from the article....

Notice "ton mile" and "weight class, cab type, roof height, 9 sub categories" ect. See you seem to think that they're going to say "All class 8 trucks must get X MPG" you seem to forget that there are plenty of trucks that do not pull 25,000# smooth sided vans up and down the highway. All day from my shop I see dozens of 6-7 axle dump trucks hauling sand to a concrete block plant.........not going to get 8mpg no matter how many air tabs you stick on them.

You want to raise efficiency, raise the weigh limits! You brag about your trucks fuel mileage but my trucks are more efficient than yours. When I send a truck to pick up 3-28,000 coils I've got one truck doing the work of 3, all while getting 5mpg which completely buries your 9mpg hauling one load. However since you actually believe someones IFTA fuel mileage reports you probably also believe the TV commercials from CSX where they say "we move a ton of freight 400 miles on a single gallon of fuel" Well lets put 2000# on one car and run one engine 400 miles and see how much fuel it burns. Gotta go Dice, I've got some Volvo's to buy!!!!!

Let me also add this little link in here.

 

LOL! So there's a shortage, huh? Fleets buy cheap trucks because they're CHEAP! When are you going to realize that there are many factors to consider when choosing a truck other than fuel mileage? That's only one part of the equation, and it is the sole advantage the plastic junk has over a hood. Maintenance, longevity, and resale are just a few examples of areas where your beloved wonder trucks are DEFICIENT! Even when fuel hit the highs it hit in '08, hoods still carried higher values on the used market. That's a fact you'll never be able to refute or distort. Are you so close minded and stuck in your own world to even begin to entertain the idea that classic trucks can be and are very profitable for many of us? Not all of us pull a box 130,000 miles a year up and down the big road. Some of us operate in environments where all the aerodynamics in the world won't amount to a 1/4 mpg improvement., and we get the rates to reflect it.

I'm done with this thread, for the simple fact that I've found myself arguing with a self appointed "authority" on the economics of trucking, who also chooses to be condescending to those of us who dare question his knowledge.

Better check in with Kevin Rutherford, Dice. I'm sure he has a new sponsor who needs your "endorsement" of their product. Sounds like you got a double serving of kool aid this weekend...

 

So these fleets you speak of are the plan we are ALL suppose to follow? The same sort of companies who must hire recruiters & sponsor cdl mills? The same sort that sets up lease companies to profit from both the freight being moved & raping a driver they literally just sent through school? These are the sort of we are to follow using your logic regardless of the freight being moved?

YOU keep bringing this up? Why? If it does NOT affect you, why bother? Starting to think there is a whole different fever you have going on with this garbage rhetoric.

 

Seams like he only answers a few select reply's.

 

What's very amusing is people on here SWEAR O/O's should operate like the mega fleets. What they don't know is how horrible the mega fleets actually are. I have a very close friend who works for a large steel company. She always says how funny it is when someone from a large carrier like Swift calls about a load. They know as soon as they say what carrier they're with they can immediately hose them on the rate because they don't care what it pays. They know when a O/O or a small fleet calls they will negotiate a rate and if your too low they'll hang up where 'ole swifty will take it for peanuts. But with a large fleet you can almost always assume the load will not be there on time.

Dice you keep driving 45mph in your soda bottle bragging about your fuel mileage and the rest of us will sitting at home enjoying life. We all could probably save some fuel by slowing down but who wants to live in a truck, I have a house for that.

 

That's why I have 2, one for when I'm in Colorado and the other for when I'm waiting for produce to cross the border in Az.