Good Night From II

Not sure what kind of fuel mileage you are getting with the T900, I've driven two that were given up by O/O's and average mpg was well under 7. I'm in a T680 now with average mpg at 7.5 with a lot of heavy hauls over hills mixed in and lots of idling for my trainee comfort. The T680 is a good horse.

 

Yes scottie, that was the way that they all came in. Now have to find out about ordering spec'd. If they say off the lot then it will not be happening. I was told the same thing, we can spec our 2nd truck

 

Here is Columbus, TX. Went in to get my paperwork and was po'd. My so called 14K load was actually 44K. CSR entered into the system the Kilo weight like on the bills, and did not bother to add the weight from the additional stop. Talked to my DM and she mentioned that lately she does not want even to pplan her O/O's out of Laredo or El Paso on loads that are coming out of Mexico because too many cases of weight not being correct. Now this is the 3rd load that I have picked up at a terminal that had either 1 or 2 additional stops on it, and they are not totaling up the weight.. Just putting in the pplan the weight that is on the final.

 

What terminal are you out of blsqueak?

I'm starting to see more preplans with 100+ empty miles than before the new pay scale was announced, this does not bode well.

 

I am out of Inver Grove. My DM knows that over 7% do not even talk to me about it unless there are lots on the back end. I have to admit, this last 10 days, over 4K loaded and all of 67 empty.

 

scottie ... aren't you doing a lot of running in Oregon ... Since Oregon doesn't participate in IFTA I don't think those miles get into the calculation ... just the miles you run in IFTA states and the fuel you buy in those states.

 

My mentor was stuck in New York for two days getting her truck fixed when I finished orientation. Two nights for a 34, three more waiting on a second mentor when my first turned in her truck, and a couple more during my "upgrade" while my truck was getting fixed.

Speaking of getting my truck fixed, I'm sitting in Martinsburg, WV, waiting on a new DEF pump. Had to be towed here last night.

 

I've been running some models and I'm not 100% there yet ... But it looks like if you average 3000 miles a week ... and ran 100% loaded on the incumbent rate vs. 100% EMPTY on the new rate - you would only have to average 125 to 150 more empty miles a week to break even, on a best case vs. worst case scenario.

The question you have to answer is do you believe that if you gave no consideration to empty miles, could you get 5% more miles a week?