West vs East - Which do you prefer driving in?

When you start buying the fuel you won't care how high the speed limit is. You run the truck at the speed you specced it to run.

 

One third of humanity can't see the Milky Way due to light pollution. I think maybe half of Americans.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-map-shows-the-dark-side-of-artificial-light-at-night/

I had a trainee in the truck that grew up in LA, never venturing out of the LA basin for all his life, other than flying to other major cities. We had a load running through desolate eastern Oregon and shut down for the night as the sun went down in an unlit roadside pullout. He got up to take a piss around midnight and started shouting. I got up to see what was wrong. It was the first time in his life he had ever seen the Milky Way.

For those of you that have lived your lives in the middle of urban light pollution, you owe it to yourself to run out west and see the heavens in all their glory. Don't park at a lit up truck stop or rest area. See it for yourself.

 

Amen Brother

 

Constant speeds above 72 you better have some fancy freight, cause the friction on your tires, means your gonna replace your drives like.............every year. My truck was governed at 94. We had one dude in that placed a self govern on his truck of 72, just because he couldn't keep his foot out of it, and was spending $3K a year on rubber.

 

Yep. I think you missed understood my point. Basically what I was saying is when it's your check book, this thought process of driving out west is better cause of the higher speed limit will go out the window. Slower speeds equals more profit. Period.

 

In the west.. There is more room to get a truck around.. And the mountain roads get rid of the riff raff..

 

if one hauls freight that pays well.. And not cheap freight... And does 80-85 then they can afford tires.. Funny thing i get about 300,000miles to a set.. Its called proper inflation..

 

This was exactly my thinking when I started my first thread on this forum. Quite a few experienced members begged to differ, but I didn't see it.

Now I think it boils down to this: IF you pay for your fuel AND haul cheap freight, then slow down to make a profit. If you haul high tariff freight AND delivery is needed urgently, then hammer down.

If you are an O/O hauling for a buck a mile or low buck and change, then trying to get more miles by running fast increases fuel cost and maintenance (like tires). If you haul freight that pays in the $3-10 per mile range fuel and tire cost is a tiny fraction of total revenue and you make more profit hauling more loads.

I haul freight to oil rigs. There's no such thing as dawdling, nor any incentive. I'm paid a percentage of revenue and track costs for the truck owner. We replace all tires at least once a year. Lease roads aren't kind to rubber. I'm paid well and the owner makes a solid five figure net profit.

 

Maybe I'm getting wiser as I get older, or I'm losing my nerve, but I just stroll along. Well now that I'm stuck doing local I don't even do that. When I roamed all these hills though, I didn't really let it go up past the high 70's. I ran Dunlop drives & Pilot steers, there's no guarantee things can't go bad, and doing 80 at 78K is a bad time for that. I was on track to make a 100, I was happy, and I was home every weekend. That's good enough for me.

 

West.
Las Vegas
Montana and 191north
California beaches
East coast ? Hell to the no