For a 18 year old thats alotta loot!
Figure $1000 for fuel, you aint doing to bad.
Pros and cons of flatbed versus step deck
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Double L, Oct 21, 2008.
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I get 5.9 to 6 with "Old Bull" but that's in the "flats". Climb up that 70 with 80K gross, now were talking more like 4 and that is a huge difference. All of the fuel stops see me coming when I run the Rockies......
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everything would lead you to believe that $500 a day is easy, that you can get 2 of those short $3/mile loads a day until you get to the first shipper at 7am to find 10 trucks ahead of you or your freight is not ready or they do not know where it is or it is burried or all of these
OK so now it is 11am you are loaded strapped and maybe tarped and on your way, on the way you find your return load call and get it set up catch is they only load till 3pm and is about 45min. away, plenty of time right? 2 hours of driving later 1pm, you get to the unload spot to find any one of these problems: they take a late lunch, shift change, 10 trucks in line ahead of you,angry or retarded or both tow-motor drivers, they have to make room for your load or just don't care that you're there. So 2-3 hours later you are empty but at 3or 4pm you are too late to load your return load, so you are empty in a place you don't want to be with no load and $275 in your pocket. Now this does not all the time I just listed SOME of the things that have happened to me in the last several years, some days you could get loaded unloaded reloaded and be to the 2nd unload spot before supper time, but the screwed up days far out number the perfect days
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