idle percent & miles driven

Don't have a fuel bonus and paid by the hr I start her up 'round 2am shut her off 'round 6pm today I went 360kms took 14 hrs. only had to bundle up to put on chains arrrrggghhhh but that's another story. When I was on the road I never worried about a bonus the company had them and the targets could be met but I like waking up warm and never had to pay for fuel (avg 5mpg)

 

We average about 3.5 mpg in our mixers during a normal day, but then again a large chunk of the day is spent at 2000 rpm just mixing loads and getting loaded. No particular relevance to this thread, just thought I would throw mileage from another industry out there. Sorry.

 

I run it off the 12v plug in the sleeper. Our Freightliners have a battery protection cut-off. The batteries get below a certain level it cuts out the non-essential stuff (like the 12v plugs in the sleeper). BUT this rarely happens to me. I unplug everything but my fridge and the bunk heating pad and they run all night.
The very few times I've had the battery protect cut the sleeper plugs off, I just get up, crank up the truck, let it run for 15-30 minutes, cut it back off and it's all good.

RT

 

My bunk heater is broke, so my idle time will be going up more. I had 3% last month, and I usually stay within the single digits. When I first started I spent a lot of time in the South and my idling was up there and I eventually got an APU.

 

I am at 7421 mi, 175h58m and 14.46 idl% and all of that is above the ohio river except for 2 trips, to get me home to georgia, a few trips to ontario, south dakota, ny etc. I dont mind sleeping in the cold, it was 5 degrees the other night, slept snug as a bug in a rug. We have a 2 tier bonus, 1cpm for 30% and 2cpm for 20% for the month of December, think Nov. was 15 and 20. The guys with the diesel fired heaters get a lot less but I dont have any heater in mine so thats my allowance to get the bonus this month. Those numbers are for the month of Dec. They always download and reset midnight last day of the month. I do just like RoadToad, stay bundled up set my alarm about 15 - 20 minutes early crawl out start it up, I make it a point to set my heater controls to full hot before I rest so I just have to turn the key, hit the cruise button and slide back into bed until it warms up.

Now come summer, not sure how I will fair, as I dont like to sweat while I am trying to sleep.

 

my company tells me to run that engine, it cost less to pay the fuel than it does to send someone out to start it after the fuel tanks gel up. and when I do shut down for my 34 hour, he wants it plugged in. or idle it. while it is cold.

 

I almost feel like a O/O with my company, they don't even use Qualcom or such like, We are told where to go and they know about how many miles it will take, but we take our own routes and turn them in at the end of each week. they just have to be within a certain amount of miles of what they know to be the shortest route. We fuel where we think is best and also is the best deal for the Co. so no going out of our route to save 2 cents and spend 10 cents per mile doing it.