My Truck, My Choice, Out of Denver, Colorado

Doing fine. Except for the DPF issues that I had when I first picked it up, no problems. They cleaned the DPF, but there was a leak in the diesel lines going to the doser, so when the truck tried to perform a passive regen, all that happened was diesel poured all over the exhaust causing a ton of smoke while I was driving down the highway. Then because the DPF didn't get regened, it got clogged with soot and wanted a parked regen. Well, same problem. So, the DPF was totally clogged by the time I got to Green Bay. Master Fleet fixed everything, including getting the DPF baked, replacing a slack adjuster that was bad, installing a block heater, (truck didn't have one), and doing some other minor stuff to get the truck road ready, cost only about $1500. Master Fleet gives a really good labor rate to SNI contractors. So other than those initial issues, the truck has been fine. The mileage is averaging around 6.3 mpg over all loads, both heavy and light. I want to get that up, but my fuel costs are still around .43 cpm. I'm sure something else will go goofy soon, but for now, I'm working and putting money away for when that happens.

 

Just take the truck to get it dyno'd and do your best to look for anything that doesn't look right. They will have it detailed, but run the truck for at least an hour to see if there are any fluids leaking that they power-washed off. Other than that, it's a used truck, roll of the dice.

 

I got my "TruckFridge" installed today and the inverter is halfway installed. I got an 80 amp fuse to put in line from the battery to the inverter to hopefully avoid the truck burning to the ground. I need some other hardware to finish the inverter install and I just didn't want to work on it anymore today. I have a nice hefty ribeye steak to throw on the grill in this wonderful 65 degree Denver evening. It was snowy and nasty yesterday, and today was beautiful. Time to grill a steak and saute some mushrooms!

 

The line up starting Monday:

Golden, CO To Springfield, MO
Lees Summit, MO to New Orleans, LA
Laurel, MS to Greenville, TX
Dallas, TX to Houston, TX

That rounds out the week through the following Monday. Looks to be about $3026 in revenue on 2616 miles. Only $1.15 per mile, but all the loads are light except the first stupid beer load and I'm not screwing around in the snow! My goal is to see what I can do running around TX for a week or so then head back to Denver. I want to see if I can do two short loads a day in TX and see how that works. It's all good. Bills are paid and life is good.