Math in Trucking

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  1. desperado75

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    Most truckers are not good with math. That is why this industry exists and many take Cent Per Mile chicken feed pay. Sorry to say, but true.
     
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    Once you meet enough truckers at the truck stop you'll realize math isn't something that many of them excell at.
     
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    Dot can't have a tolerance, if you can't speak English... Food for thought.
     
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    And some struggle with washing themselves.
     
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    Just trust me. I have nice new Freighty he can lease for $1,200 / wk, with a low, low, $75K buy out after four years.:glasses4:

    Refrigerated products.

    In fact we prefer drivers that aren't astute with arithmetic. Please contact me, we will have you on a bus, and into orientation tomorrow.
     
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    I had a 'second chance' with a DOT guy. I was (and am still) kind of new, and I'd forgotten a few things.... a few signatures, adding the hours up, a couple unfinished pages that didn't show my sleeper time...

    He said I could get in a lot of trouble for that, so I never slack on it anymore. I dodged an expensive bullet that day, for dang sure.
     
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    Do not use 60 mph as the number for trip planning, that's dumb. Use 47 mph because it is accurate, reflecting real time with what happens on road.
     
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    Yes but when they do that the paycheck they imagine in their head drops from bad to pathetic.

    Every budding super trucker can average more MPH then their truck is governed. Just like every fleecer can make more then a company driver. Every dispatcher can get the freight there a day early. Everybody can run more miles then their is time in the day. Every recruiter can promise more freight then the company has. ect. ect. ect. ........
     
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