I'm upgrading!

Oh ####. Thought you were headed to cowtown

 

Yeah, it is. Of course it isn't the pay rate I operate under here at Shelbyville. It's good for when I'm heading back and forth to SpriMo or to the house the yard. One cool upside to switching out my LW International for my FL Evo, my fuel mileage has gone up quite a bit. I'm averaging about .75-1mpg better on these runs than I did in the LW. This is putting fuel bonus actually within my reach now. Whereas before, it just wasn't possible to get in my LW.

 

I've had those convos with my FM and I drive the way Prime wants me to drive. My MPG issues are due to the fact that I run on the dedicated WM account out of the WM DC here in Shelbyville, TN. My routes are heavy on city surface streets, hilly two lane back roads and other MPG sucking terrain. Less than half of my miles are on primary 4 lane divided highways/interstates. A good week for me in my LW here was around 7.5. If I ran OTR I averaged in the high 8s to low 9s. The Evos are fuel sippers relative to some of the other trucks in the fleet. (The LWs aren't favored for their MPGs, but their ability to haul more weight in the box.) So it isn't the driving style so much that hurts me with regard to fuel bonus, it is where I am driving it. That's the reason why the Evo makes such a big difference here. A friend of mine scored one of the rare Prostar condos, his MPG plummeted over his LW Prostar. I was jealous at first, not anymore. I'm really growing quite fond of my Bertha.