prime lightweight tractors

Prime pulls the fuel number every Saturday morning around 1:20am and you have to do at least 7.5 mpg to get any kind of bonus the better you do the more the bonus. You have to get above 9.0 mpg for the week to get the .06 which it can be done.

 

ooohh wow I see so to me its teaching a driver to be very conservative & discipline at the sametime. so ypull basically run like 52-55 to pull at least a extra .04 cpm in fuel bonus. I lot of discipline in speed is required I see

 

Speed is only part of it, how you shift, the weight of your load, the terrain you are in and which way you are going all play a part. For example you can be fully loaded running I-80 cross Wyoming and Nebraska going west to east. You can pretty much run 62mph and get a good mpg across those states. The reason being is it is all downhill even if it doesn't look like it plus in that area the winds usually blow west to east so you will have a tail wind. However go east to west and it is all up hill and most of the time you will have a strong head wind and you can just watch your MPG drop even if you are doing 55mph.

 

oohh I understand a lot more now & with those lw itll help you easy with fuel bonuses I didn't know the shifting & weight of the load has a role to play in it. so in those lw its very easy to maintain & average a higher mpg then it is in the regular condos by you would say how much by 50%-60%

 

Ah no. Anyone can drive the fuel economy of one of these trucks right into the ground with poor enough driving technique. It ain't nothin' like driving a 4-wheeler. You'll get about the same shot at good fuel economy and about the same numbers with either kind of truck. The deal with the lightweights is that our shippers can stuff more product in them. They still max out at 80,000 lbs, just like their bigger brothers.

 

oohh I understand now the purpose of the lightweight is more on the reefer side to increase the capacity of the load & the company can charge the customer more due to the weight of the load

 

You're benefit is an entire class of loads just reserved for company drivers in lightweights because they're too heavy for a driver in a condo to pull. Plus a lot of these loads are regional in nature, which (if you're lucky 'n livin' right) will keep you nearer the home 20.

 

Just trying to figure out the mindset behind doing 58 mph to get 2500 miles for the week to get a .04 fuel bonus which gets you $100. Or, running 62 to 65 and getting another 500 miles in at .34 and making $170.

 

I get you iron the training manager did tell me oh ypoou live in Jersey city I said yes sir he said youll be seeing home a lot cause our customers are in that area we deliver to the most. I told him Iheard in port Newark *didn't told him I heard from here lol* he said yea. & told me if I get a passport I will be getting more miles going to Canada my classmate put me on that saying youll spend your time sitting in traffic in Canada so the miles wouldn't really mean nothing if you spending most your time sitting in traffic. crash the fuel bonus is on top of the .44cpm

 

Or, more likely, sitting at the truck stop an extra 3 hours and making $0.