3 car hauler questions...

I get 15 empty. 12 loaded. And I have a older ford with the 7.3L mine had 1.2mil before I had to rebuild. Engine was made by international at the time.

 

I started like you with a three car and a pickup and then a four car and a pickup and now a six car and a semi.
I can say without question I make more with the semi now then I ever did with any of the previous set ups.
Also I can tell you the comfort factor of power, braking ability, Jake brake, and crawling in to a real bed and not the back seat of a pickup at the end of my day is also light years better then any of my previous set ups.
I would never return to the old way and also know many who have followed the same path that I did who agree.

 

You get 12 miles to the gal pulling big box trucks thru the wind?

 

Yep. Doing 65. 70 I get 10 with box trucks. But with cars and pickups I get 12-13 mpg doing 70

 

1. Load times are the same, or if anything faster with a Sun Country 4 car with a hydraulic ramp.
2. You still haven't addressed why you choose to handicap your business running under 26k.
3. Taking good paying loads to the middle of nowhere effectively divides your income per mile by 2. I take $4-6/mi loads to places like that all the time. It's nothing to brag about.
4. You're not getting that kind of mileage out of a 7.3 powerstroke. You might have once but not close to every time

 

I ran a 99 7.3 PS dually and put over 500,000 on it, good truck, BUT, the BEST I could do running 70 and less was around 19mpg bobtail, hook an empty trailer to it I was in the 12-13 range, put cars/trucks on it I was in the 8-9 miles range and hope like hell you dont run into a head or side wind!

 

Exactly. I ran a 6.7 Dodge 3500 and 4car infinity when I first started and averaged 9.8 over 198k miles I put on it. Here's 198k miles of data, not lies to look through: 08Dodge (Dodge Ram 3500) | Fuelly
There were whole months in the summer that I averaged over 11 and I think the best ever was 14.2mpg loaded. But I don't go around saying I got that kind of mileage because the truth is that on winter fuel with a pickup backwards on #1 with a headwind or sidewind you will be getting 7-8 on that tank.

 

Where are you finding you work? Central? I have a 99 f350 7.3. I won't need elog right??

 

I’ve been running a 18 ram 3500 with a 7k trailer and 10k load and have been getting 10mpg. So my experience agrees with you.

 

A lot of different dispatchers. And the camper hauling company’s out of Indiana.