Is there a scientific chart showing how much fuel you save by going slower?

DON'T feel bad.

We tried for 10 many times. And as described that happens in very specific areas like the long east downgrade past Limon into Kansas with at least a 40 mph wind at our backs, Best scenario is a 70 plus wind that has your hand outside the window in air that does not move faster or slower than your tractor trailer. The fuel numbers go crazy at that point in time. FFE got used to it after asking us what we were doing to it we explained. (Shop monitored the rig 24/7 via qualcomm and if we did a panic stop etc all of that went out instantly on the shop freq.

 

I want that Owner to give me a monster and we will see who runs who... *Yum.... (Im not trying to be weird. I hope you understood...)

 

Well that's where my local delivery comes in. None of our drivers deliver the back hauls in town if they are going back out, that is the rule. You drop & hook a preloaded, bye-bye, have a nice trip, and myself and one other guy deliver all the loads, so our line drivers have minimal time at receivers.

If you want a day off, then you deliver your own load. All the runs go strait out of town, then strait back, no pinballing.

The outbounds are usually 3 stops, same city, then instant reload, back to Phoenix, D&H, wash, rinse, repeat. He pays all DH too.

We had a guy that was going to SLC three times a week.

 

Did you not say you run 62 and log 66??? I got nothing against it but face the fact you like all of us are not logging legal even the Elog guys aren't logging legal.

 

Let it go man it don't matter. That's like asking me if I load light

 

really and just how

 

That's awesome. Preloads are the way to go. Live loads are the killer of everything.

 

I haven't read all of the replies yet but yes obviously driving slower saves money... but my point is does it equal saving money in fuel vs the pay of another load? I will just throw out a number as an example, if I save $300 going slow vs driving fast and finishing that load and proceeded to another loaf that makes me an extra $600, I see it as making more money. Unless I am incorrect in that the fuel savings is so huge it overtakes the profit of doing more work which is what I am trying to find out.

 

Save a dollar spend two. You still saved that dollar. Otherwise you would have spent three right?

 

He has two major customers. One we leave a forest of empties there, and they load them. The other one I go to ALOT and do pick up's, that's typically how I start my day, 3 to 5 P/U's, then do two deliveries.

Some of the big customers he does in & out. He hauls product in, the hauls a different or processed product out. He takes any broker load available to get his trucks back too, and he's DH me, and I'm sure others, all the way back from Houston or Dallas before, full rate.

He's a mad scientist.