Fuel costs

Best way to keep fuel costs down is to park it and not haul cheap freight.

 

fuelbook and mudflap work best for me

 

I actually just got TCS, seems pretty good, Mudflap isn’t as good as it used to be but majority of the time I try to fill up in the yard out my own tank

 

I use TCS. @AriGab, there are tons of threads on this. Try the search bar in the top right.

 

less miles and less speed

600 mile day...
...
8.5mpg @ 60mph =
70.58 gallons, 10 hrs
...or...
7.0 mpg @ 70mph =
85.71 gallons, 8.57 hrs

15 gallons x $4 =
$60/day, x M-F =
$300/week =
$1200/month =
$14,400/year

4500 gross week on 3k miles
at 70mph (7mpg) =
428.57 gallons x $4/gallon =
$1714 fuel =
keep 2786

3500 gross week on 2k miles
at 60mph (8.5mpg) =
235.29 gallons x $4/gallon =
$941 fuel =
keep 2559

ideally one version you can keep going for two or three months without running yourself and the equipment ragged

 

so what do you plan on doing after lunch?

Fuel is a tax write off, my time is gone forever, you want to work a full day to do a half days work go ahead, but im doing my work and going home, though I guess if you are running a truck for $3500 a week you have to pinch Pennys when you can

 

after lunch I go to sleep so I can drive in darkness and peace. 3500 a week is about the highest consistently available possibility with where i'm leased on, two loads a week. you can cram in more but you can't do it two weeks in a row, it always ends up jacking up the flow and one week ends up 1500 gross in BFE w me punching a hole in a wall, over the month u might as well do 4 weeks of easy, pays out more or the same as 3 weeks of redline. but I'm capped on gross potential in a small load board. point me to somewhere else there's consistent 1.75/mile freight on carrier's insurance. two more years of this most dangerous job in the country mess

 

You can have it, I’m not even looking at my truck for $1.75 a mile regardless whose paying what, $2.75 a mile will still get hung up on.

 

My plan is a little different. Drive as new a truck as I can afford (for effeciency). Notice I did not say buy a brand new truck. Doesn't fit my plan.

Mine gets 7 to 7.5 mpg running 67-68 on winter fuel. Haven't had the newer truck long enough to know about summer fuel but I expect 8ish.

Track your fuel using an app like Fuel gauges, or just calc by hand. My fuel runs .47cpm This is all I need to know fuelwise to set my rates and run my truck.

I'm not willing to drive any slower just to save fuel. I'd rather spend the extra time getting loads that pay more.