Kevin Rutherfrauds $200000 Signature glider truck has complete engine failure!!!

Common sense isn't so common these days.

 

Nothing wrong with running empty. Just have to factor it in to your price going to that area

 

Pride cometh before the fall. $5/mile*1000 miles + $0/mile*1000 miles = $5000. Not bad, it's $2.50 a mile, but run back loaded for $1/mile and you ran the same 2000 miles for $6000, or $3/mile. So you burned a little extra fuel running back loaded, still grossed 20% more on that trip. Running empty doesn't make sense...let alone dollars. Just sayin'

 

You have a lot to learn my young friend.

 

Notice he said a project though, that means multiple loads. I would bounce right back empty and get another one, and keep doing so until there are no more.

 

Exactly oscar. By the time you waste loading and unloading that cheap back haul, you could have bounced back, reloaded the good freight and been halfway to delivering another 5k dollar invoice. that cheap back haul can be the difference of three turns a week vs two. 15k and bounce empty, or 12k and run back heavy. Not much of a choice in my book.

 

Running back at a $1 per mile makes no sense.

Cost to run your truck:

.50 per mile for fuel
.38 per mile for maint
.50 per mile for replacement

Hmm in the hole on the $1 per mile now, not including a wage, insurance, and other costs as well. I don't know about you but I would rather haul air at a loss vs. 45k and pay somebody else to do their work for them.

 

Not every load is @ $5.00 mile ( multi load project ) in the REAL WORLD and when you see some posters on here that either figure their CPM at $0.24 or have no idea what CPM is you can see why many fail. The guy I mentioned earlier whose truck / trailer I bought turned down $2.60 / mile loads that were 10 miles from where he unloaded with a open 24 hour a day pickup and delivery window , no tarps to run home empty 800 miles and the chance to do 5 rounds for same customer out and back.

 

I have seen that before as well, stupid is as stupid does.

 

38 cpm for maintenance? Wtf, is your truck a 1946 jimmy? 50 four fuel? My fuel the last two fill ups was 1.87/gallon and 2.12/gallon. Fuel is well under 30 cents a mile right now. And just how in the world do you figure replacement cost being fifty cents per mile? Are you buying a brand new truck and 144 inch bunk every year and selling the last one for a buck?