$40K and I'm gonna do what they say can't be done

It pays more cause they know driver needs 20 more LED's by tuesday...

 

that high dollar refridgerator you have to pull around could have something to do with the rate too

 

Exactly.

New reefer = $60,000

New drybox= $20,000

 

i don't mean to sound self centered but i got to share how i backed a reefer into a dock that had a concrete wall on one side and a trailer on the other. my trainer kept telling me it was too early and that i should let him do it, but i insisted and did it right the first time.

3 more weeks of city driving and i'm otr'ing across the great american midwest to california and british columbia

 

I doubt the shippers/customers care what the price of equipment is, but just because you gotta run that reefer means burning fuel, not only that it requires care. Hauling a frozen load in 100*F heat, you need to check on, make sure the unit dont shut off, make sure its cooling right, etc. Thats why i dont haul frozen this time of the year. Only produce, the lowest setting i go is 34*F.

No one gives a rats ### about van loads

 

Do the new units freeze up as bad as the older ones did? I reember getting hot loaded and having that unit freeze up so tight it took 4 defrost cycles to get it clear.
I don't know if thee smart units are any better defrosting then the old ones but if you didn't have a clue what you were doing you could mess up bad. I've seen guys froze up like that and they hit the defrost cycle and run on down the road. Well one defrost wouldn't clear it and they never knew. Unit is cranking away and nothing is cooling because it's frozen solid. You have to keep hitting that defrost untill water stops running. You learn fast to bring them hot loads down ever so slowly instead of setting the temp and running thinking it will pull it down

 

Most fleets buy aero's for fuel efficiency too keep their bottom line as low as they can, and O/O's buy long nose conventionals (W9's, 379's, Classics, Eagles) for looks for the most part. But you can pay in the end for looks. I went from a Columbia XT with a 470 hp Series 60 getting 6.9 mpg, to a 379 with a 475 Cat. getting 5.4 mpg., and I didnt change my driving at all, just trucks. At 2.30/gal. that was quite a bit of a difference, but at 5.00/gal, thats just gonna plain out hurt. You just have to ask yourself whats more important too you. I've met alot of drivers that will sit and complain about not having the money to buy fuel, make a truck payment, mortgage payment, car/truck payment or anything else, but then you look at the their truck and they have 1,000,000 chicken lights and every chromed up doodad and geegaw they can put on their truck so people can go "wow dude, thats a sweet lookin truck". I like a good looking truck just as much as the next person but I would much rather have that money in the bank. But thats just me, thats what I'm out here for. I'm in it for the $$$$ for my family and our future, not a pat on the back for what I drive.

 

Oh yeah the new smart reefers are good, they will automtically defrost if its starts to ice up. But you can still ice em up if you have a 70*F load and 35*F temp setting like most guys do lol. I never do that, if the produce is at 65* and they want it at 40* ill gradually bring it down, not all at once.

My 92 is a smart reefer but i still have to manually defrost it, that was untill last week when my micro processor took a crap, now with the new one its programmed to defrost on its own every 4 hours or when it ices up.
My old super II TK was a good one, that sucker would never ice up, no matter what i did to it, the new TKs have a really deep deforst cycle compared to the old ones.... They have to with these professionals out there.

 

i can tell you that dry freight is where i make my money and plenty of it sometimes.right now i'm doin the flower thing,but about august i hit the load boards and match wits and indurance with brokers

 

I did the flower thing, still requires a reefer in winter... Good money, but my truck is a 1 pick 1 drop truck. I hated some of the places you had to go with em.