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BD69: The Owner Operator Chronicles

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Broke Down 69, Feb 5, 2018.

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  1. Feb 27, 2018 #251
    RStewart

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    It so rare that I get close to my 70 that I was shocked yesterday to see I only had 17 hours left on it. I hadn't been paying attention & didn't expect it. Lol. But I did run 3000 miles this week which is about 700 more than my average. Just didn't seem like I burned that many hours.
     
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  3. Feb 27, 2018 #252
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  4. Feb 28, 2018 #253
    Broke Down 69

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    Holy God, would somebody please shove an Eggo in her pie hole before I piss myself laughing.
     
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  5. Mar 1, 2018 #254
    Broke Down 69

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    Sorry guys, I've had a little case of the lazies for a couple days and I just parked and slept.

    So this cycle was much better all around.

    Fuel dropped from 28% to 21%.
    Debt service dropped from 48% to 42%.
    Profit rose from 24% to 37%
    I did have one category that declined, my deadhead milage went from 8.2% of total miles to 10.7%.

    Quite a lot of the improvement was tightening up my fuel strategy. I'm also getting a better handle on how to drive the truck for optimal milage as opposed to maximum miles per day.

    Efficiency is what I'm after and I hope to continue to improve it at every point.

    On my home load now, be there tomorrow and plan on coming back out early Tuesday morning.

    More later...
     
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  7. Mar 1, 2018 #255
    Tug Toy

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    That’s really good deadhead. No matter what I end up over %20 the last 2 years. Maybe it’s becase I go home most weekend? I try and have something on for Monday’s but I’m empty sometimes. I live 100 miles south of Chicago so it usually 200 miles if I’m empty though.


    Let’s work on getting that profit number up a bit. (Just poking at ya) Headed in the right direction though.
     
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  8. Mar 1, 2018 #256
    Broke Down 69

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    Had one load that kind of drug me a little. Did a favor for dispatch and in return they got me this load home that pays very, very well. A little quid pro quo as it were.
     
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  9. Mar 1, 2018 #257
    motocross25

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  10. Mar 1, 2018 #258
    1nicevette

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    Love the thread you have going please keep up the posts
     
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  11. Mar 2, 2018 #259
    RStewart

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    Pretty good numbers. My dead head for February is about 30%. Lol. But it's by choice. I've made a couple long dead heads for personal reasons.
     
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  12. Mar 2, 2018 #260
    Broke Down 69

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    Our dispatchers work hard to keep dead heading to a minimum for the o/o's here.
     
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