Average cruising range

USX will provide you with fuel stops, they expect you to fill the tanks and will not tell you how much to buy. We drove for them for two years, never had a problem with making a call to change fuel stops. Sometimes they are too close together so we would just skip one.

 

Quality Carriers tried assigned fueling for a while and it was a joke . Trucks had 2 150 gallon tanks . They would assign fuel stops when you accepted the load . That might be on a Friday it was accepted to load on Monday and maybe not fuel before Wednesday . I asked what kind of crystal ball they had that allowed them to predict low prices that far in the future .
They'd post the supposed high price in the area to show how much they were saving . What a farce . I never saw a fuel stop that actually had the high price . It was probably some little stop 10 miles off the interstate drivers would never stop at anyway .
As far as the low price goes you could bet there'd be 2 or 3 fuel stops within 20 miles with the same price but you had to stop where they told you .
At one fuel stop I overheard a trainer at one carrier telling a trainee they'd have to call in before fueling to get their fuel card activated each time . Too many drivers had been stealing fuel .

 

If you are an O/O, it has to do more with the state fuel taxes and less to do with how many miles you get out of your tanks.

 

State fuel tax map . http://taxfoundation.org/sites/taxfoundation.org/files/docs/diesel2013_large.png

 

Oh now that's real good. I can understand how that would be a joke. Our other truck has 150s on it if it'd get better fuel milage it'd only get fueled once every 2 days at night for a final stop. Assigned fuel stops no matter what the savings are a pita. I can understand not fueling out of their network if they got discounts at like pfj but telling me which stop to ruel at wouldn't fly just because there are too many variables on the road. I can understand a company forcing its drivers to call ahead for their fuel card activation with people stealing fuel though. Its sad drivers do that but it would definitely add up over time. Costs me about $100 to fill my pickup when its on 1/4 do that once a week and that's $5200 in free fuel factor that over 10,000 drivers and that's a big chunk of change in stolen fuel. This is one reason if I ever get to the point of leasing drivers on I'll be keeping a close eye on fuel purchases. I trust nobody now days for these reasons.