Renting a truck at Knight Transportation.

Quick snapshot of the first settlement. Paid to me $409 dollars. Considering I intentionally over fueled to buy cheap fuel that's not to bad. Had I waited and bought more expensive fuel the next day that would have been an additional $457 in the settlement. Taking into account the truck spent 2 full days and part of one in the shop I'd call it a win for the first week. Next week would have been great do to me over fueling on this settlement except for my oops with the air lines. Still I'm $150 ahead between the two so we'll see. I'll post some more detailed numbers later.

 

I do take into consideration fuel taxes but I balance it with trying to keep my weekly revenue up. For instance, If i get to go by the love's in Tihachapi where fuel is 3.939 a gal I fill up because it's a decent price and it's got a high fuel tax as well. But I skip the 4.069 places to get to Nevada to get 50 gals at 3.939 to get me to slc where I can get it at 3.789 a gal.

We are talking about Knight here. Despite reassurances that they do you as a single truck based on your numbers I'm pretty sure they will screw it up. So I'm going to assume the 3cpm per mile and any fuel tax paid has gone bye bye. Then if I get a refund at the end of the quarter I'll be pleasantly surprised.

 

Correct. When he tried to explain my contract to me I had to tell him what several sections meant.

 

You do know what you get when you buy tires with deeper tread depth?

Answer: Worse fuel mileage. Taller tread flexes more and increases rolling resistance.

 

Last 2 fill ups. 6.69 mpg(two full 10 hour breaks of idling in 100 degree heat included) and then a 8.27(with 4 hours of idling included). This brought the mpg's up to an average of 7.03 since I've gotten the truck.