Of course, that's a personal choice for your own reasons, but consider this:
1. Where reefer fuel is concerned, there is no "settlement" difference involved, but there is monetary value at hand. An extra 2¢ per gallon on a fuel card ads up.
2. I cannot achieve 1500 gallons per month to maintain the Diamond status. My truck gets too good of fuel mileage. That and I don't run that hard, mileage wise. Pilot/Flying J had no minimum requirement to get the 6 points. Besides, $6.00 - $14.00 versus $4.00 - $10.00 per fuel purchase for in-store use is a selling point for me
Running with JCT, Part Deux
Discussion in 'John Christner' started by drloveofdfw, Feb 13, 2014.
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Stile, have you had an ECM report pulled on your truck to see your overall MPG?
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stile so going pretty much out of route is the best way, instead of i40, take i 10. is it a big difference in miles to pass thru el paso going to cail
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Never go too far out of route for a personal venture. If you suddenly run into an hours issue and can't make delivery, you just got a service failure. If JCT had to swap you out due to poor judgement, that can affect your contract.
Bottom line, be smart about it. If you want to run through a specific area of the country, ask for a load that'll accommodate that.
Lastly, Stile never mentioned going out of route.
If you run teams, you will go through El Paso 45+ times a year. If you are solo, you can expect to run through there 12 - 15 or more times a year.Stile Thanks this. -
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Before i started trucking, I used to leave my house to go to work 10 minutes before I had to clock in, and get there with 1-2 minutes to spare.
That all changed when I got in my trainer's truck back in '03. He instilled in me the motto, "Early is on time, on time is late." A valuable lesson, in this industry.
Sometimes I wonder what is taking so long when I'm left sitting at a shipper for hours, waiting for the loading to start. At this shipper, I got my answer.
My loading window was 0700 - 1600 so I started my day later than usual, allowing myself 3 hours for the 2 hour drive instead of the typical 4 hours early, because in my experience nobody is usually at work at these produce places before sunrise.
I arrived at 0630 (stopped to top off my tanks for an empty weight) and grabbed a piece of real estate to wait for folks to show up for work, and after a few minutes of waiting the manager comes out and gives me the rundown on what to expect.
After our hellos, he said that he was surprised to see a JCT truck here so early, and that the product hadn't arrived yet. I had to wait for carrots to come in out of the field & be processed before they could get loaded on the truck. -
Found out that the DED metering valve went bad. It wasn't detecting air pressure and wasn't sending DEF to the DPF. Waiting for nre valve from Freightliner.
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Truck is fixed. Got a load to go to Phoenix. I go hook to the trailer here at the yard only to find two bad tires
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Oh yea, the bad tire issue. For a while there every trailer I hooked to had at least one bad one.
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