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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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  1. Oct 22, 2008 #21
    550hpW900L

    550hpW900L Road Train Member

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    For a 18 year old thats alotta loot! :biggrin_25525:

    Figure $1000 for fuel, you aint doing to bad.
     
    550hpW900L, Oct 22, 2008
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  3. Oct 22, 2008 #22
    Double L

    Double L Heavy Load Member

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    I know my math skills suck! I'm sure I'd average 6.5-7 with that old Detroit. With a van and not having a roof fairing I'd think it would be 5.5-6! At 55-60 she should turn some real low RPMs hopefully not lugging low at least 1300-1400. Whatever money I have left I want to get a set of chicken lights for the sleeper, new quarter fenders, and stainless mudflap mounts and weights along with new black mudflaps. Also would like to get some toggle extenders and parking brake controls, them silver ones. That is all the customization I want to do to the truck. I just want to make her look pretty and different.
     
    Double L, Oct 22, 2008
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  4. Oct 22, 2008 #23
    Double L

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    A week or monthly? I don't plan on idling when getting loaded or unloaded and if I stay out overnight I probably won't idle cause I can always open the vent and let some air in especially in the winter time! Also I can keep the curtains closed and the rear ac kicking in the summer time and have it nice and comfortable for when I take my 10 hour unless I have homework to do or something. If I need power for my laptop I'd get one of them cigarette lighter inverters since that is all I'd need it for oh yeah forgot about an all in one printer/copier/fax machine.
     
    Double L, Oct 22, 2008
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  5. Oct 22, 2008 #24
    Working Class Patriot

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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......:biggrin_2555:
     
    Working Class Patriot, Oct 22, 2008
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  7. Oct 22, 2008 #25
    550hpW900L

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    a week..............
     
    550hpW900L, Oct 22, 2008
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  8. Oct 22, 2008 #26
    Double L

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    Oh yeah I had a major brain fart! There is just too much space between the fairing and quarter fender so I got to have some lights on there to liven her up. I think I got two 150's and the fairings stop at the end of the fuel tanks. It originally had full fairings on it but they vibrated lose or something so they took them off. They wanted to take them all the way off but couldn't figure out how.
     
    Double L, Oct 22, 2008
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  9. Oct 22, 2008 #27
    Native Dancer

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    What Bronc said. Missed out on a 628 mile load paying $3900 yesterday due to height constraints but just got back from an $18,000 load going North. Steady customer that loads from a dock. No reason it wouldn't go on a step, they just won't do it.
     
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  10. Oct 22, 2008 #28
    Double L

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    Atleast you got a better paying load though! I don't see why some companies are picky about a step deck.
     
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  11. Oct 23, 2008 #29
    24valve puller

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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 :biggrin_25516: 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
     
    24valve puller, Oct 23, 2008
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  12. Oct 23, 2008 #30
    Double L

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    I've prepared myself for all that and I got a program I plan on using to keep track of my expenses and everything so I can eliminate the accountant all together which means more money in my pocket.
     
    Double L, Oct 23, 2008
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