SCHNEIDER CHOICE PROGRAM - FREEDOM AWAITS " YOU " by JAR-HEAD

Say driver one averages 55 MPH at 8 MPG, driver two averages 65 MPH at 7 MPG

Over 3000 miles at $3.60 a gallon that's a difference of about $200 in drive one's pocket.
BUT driver two after that 3000 miles has an extra 8.5 hours on their on-duty clock over driver one.

So can driver two book enough freight with that extra time to make it worth the lost fuel cost?

Or has your brain exploded yet?

 

No brain has not exploded yet but had to read it twice.

As I stated earlier some people are on a first in first out situation and running 65 instead of 55 might generate more money than you could save if you ran 55. I am not saying it works everytime but a lot of the times.

Yes if a driver has 8.5 hours on his clock he could run something else and make the difference.

 

I would say yes..if the driver is aggressive enough.
Jump on a $7-900 load and who cares about the extra fuel burned..well actually I do care.
But going faster doesn't always work that way..unless the road is wide open..then you can make time.
It's not about running as fast as you can.
Look at it this way..if the majority of trucks are running in the 62-65 mph zone and you get by them running 67 mph..you will run away from the pack and make good time.
Not running 70+ just enough to get by the governed pack.

 

Which then would mean putting MORE miles on the truck to make up the loss in fuel costs.
More miles then means more maintenance costs and more truck depreciation.

I don't think there's a clear answer in my mind.
If I were to go off something if it be rates, if the rates were high I'd want to rake in as much as I can and go as fast as I can legally.
If I were stuck with garbage rates I'd want to be the most economical with my truck as it's pointless to have more hours when loads don't pay much to make up the difference.

 

Yes putting more miles on the truck would be the outcome but the truck is the main tool of your business. I stated before there is no one size fits all situation out there. It also depends on several other situations and the driver. This and a few other topics is the same as which came first egg or chicken. It will be debated til the end of time.

I do not tell anyone how to run their business or how to drive their truck. It is totally up to how they see fit.

 

I do know one thing, West Virginia sucks.
I was gunning it all day in my 62 MPH truck and got a whopping 4.6 MPG. I was 76k though

 

freightwipper did you sat that you worked for Shaffer or Crete?

 

Crete/Shaffer are the same company.. just one is dry side and the other is reefer.
Yes I work here currently but not much longer, they paid me .43 CPM when I had less than a year experience to be a company OTR driver and the miles have been fine.
I went from .26 CPM (not paid on all miles also) and $500-$600 a week to .43 CPM (practical miles) and $1100-$1300 a week in just a few months by switching companies. I asked them to put it in writing before I joined and they did! Let me tell you, I was surprised.
For a company OTR driver it's OKAY............ BUT time to move on to better things.

 

That is who I thought you drove for was not sure though and did not feel like looking thru all of the past posts. I have heard a bunch of people say that they are a decent company to work for. I am going to switch over to SNI around the first of next year. Just have to go thru the SFI process again but was told that would not be an issue as nothing will have changed in the last few months. Just want to get a few things paid off before then. At least that is what my wife told me.

 

The only time going faster is if your paid per load and going faster GUARANTEES you another load THAT day. In a Otr application with open ended pickup and deliveries going faster just to sit in a dock or sit waiting to get in a dock doesn't make sense.