Instant O/O and Loadboards II

Woohoo from me too! I had been following the old thread for a little while, but never really saw where to stick my advice in, but I should have at least piped in to say good luck, being a struggling new O/O myself, although I am leased on to a company. My Mom grew up not far from you, on Sardis Road, and her Mom still lives there, off of 51 in Matthews. And no SunDrop? Boy, you ain't from around here, are ya'? You are really missing out.

Since 5mtf is in this with you-

Originally Posted by 5mouths2feed
For those that have wondered about my experience with Eclipse Trans. Here are the actual numbers

8/26/09------09/24/09 with 4 days home time
Please note these are PCMiler miles not actual miles driven

Total 7424mi Loaded 5722 DH 1702 DH% 29%

Billed $8554.23
Less 20% $1710.84
Less Other Exp $ 61.00
Less Fuel $4632.13
Less Trlr Dep $1000.00

Isn't this fuel cost high? By about $1500? I realize that you might have started with an empty tank and finished with a full one, but that would still put you at $1000 high at 6ish mpg. Do you guys not get a fuel discount with your card from Eclipse? The comdata card I have gets cost plus 3-4cents/gal at TA, Petro, and Love's. This gets me between 15 and 35 cents a gallon off the cash price, with 20cents or so being the average. That obviously wouldn't make up the huge difference, but it's a start. I agree that looking into something else would be a good idea, since it's hard to justify any deadhead, let alone 29% on $1.49/loaded mile.

I hope you guys pick up some good consistent revenue soon, and that the truck gremlins stay away for a while after you get your transmission problem fixed.

 

Welcome back!! I was wondering where I was gonna find my daily diesel fix...

 

Josh I believe the answer to you question lies in the part highlighted in red..... I did these figures based on PC miler miles NOT actual miles... There in lies the rub.... I'm far too depressed to look at and post the actual miles figure....

 

That far? I'm coming up with 10,293 miles at 6mpg and $2.70/gallon, surely you haven't gone 3k miles oor? That's 40%! I think the office needs to check their math, unless some of that money is also from Pharm's fuel card.

You get out of VA and rid of his trailer yet?

 

If in fact I got a steady 6mpg's then your figures would be correct, However my little 400 pulling 79k up all the hill and such has severely reduced the milage as well as having to run her hard and steady to make up for all the DH miles to TRY to get some money in my pocket at the end of the week... The numbers posted are from my records and are very acurate...The issue is not at the office per say but rather in the high DH and lack of FSC....they get there $$$ and could care less whats left for the truck...

 

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...............Which 5m2f paid for out of his pocket so that he could keep running................

 

That sucks when you have to pay for the privelage to drive..

 

Well bless your heart! Good for you for quitting. In fact if you need to vent, you just send me a pm and I'll be happy to be the "just quit smoking and need to yell a bit" listener!

 

You must be making some$$. you had enough to pay Robs ticket..lol

 

Hay 5
I got a nice one in VA week b4 last
Can I just leave it unpaid and get you to take care of ir?
Thanks Buddy
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