Running with JCT, Part Deux

I've made too many 500 dollar weeks but i dont do enough 41s that's for sure. If I pick this load up early Wednesday morning which is the end of the window and then do 41s wont that just make me end up with 200 dollars pn the load, after fuel, bringing my week up to 700 and ending it? That's what always worries me. It seems it

I've had way too many 500 dollar weeks, but usually 750...but I can count on both hands the amount of times ive done a 41...in 2 and a half years.

 

Well if you pick up the load end of window on Wednesday and it delivers Friday 1500 miles away you are probably going to have to stay on it.

If not, the 41 allows you to get onto another load, and puts you on the swap board to be used to deliver. So say you could get the load NOW, say they swap you on Wednesday morning after you run 1200 miles out of it, GIve you a load that delivers Thursday night or something with 1200 miles on it. You finish that load on Thursday. You're turning in 1200 miles on the original, and 1200 miles on the second for 2400 miles. So instead of 1500 miles and sitting you did 2400 miles. Almost 1000 more.

That's what I was hoping for, my load delivered Thursday. I picked it up last Friday but my 70 was in shambles. So I moved it to Wamsutter before swapping today to a load that delivered Tomorrow. Close to the same on miles. Then I could have gotten a bounce out, delivered Thurs or Fri and late tripped.

 

If u pick up on Wed and drop at a yard say Fri that would give you 5 more days to get more miles in. They give you another 1500 that drops tues that's 3k miles in a week running about 8 hour days. That's like 1300 or so.

 

I late trip a lot, and I know its frowed upon by some people, but I look at it as a Cost of Doing Business, expense it because I need to, or else Uncle Same gunna nab it. My AVERAGE weekly settlement from Jan-June is 1159.56.

Then again I never go home, and run just about whatever they give me. I've declined 2 loads in two years. Both due to safety. (Aint about to take an empty trailer up the gorge in Oregon in 70+ winds and before a highway shutting down winter storm. From Tracy CA.)

 

3 weeks ago I didn't get any of my trips scanned in in time. Then the following week I got them all scanned in to the tune of 5900 miles or so. So I had one week at negative settlement, the next week a nice big check. Then last week was kinda Twilight Zone--

Colton CA to Cleburn TX to Carthage TX to Commerce City CO to Caldwell ID all C cities, a couple swaps in there and still got about 3200 miles done.

1500 miles already this week, had a preplan for a minute but it canceled. Will see what they have for tomorrow.

Point is, don't worry about breaking off the same amount of miles every week; try to average close to 6000 for a two week period instead. So if I get stuck with 1500 this week just means I need to get 4500 next week, well some of those miles will be started this week but will carry over see.

I don't worry about negative settlements when I know I have unscanned trips, that's like receivables in business.

 

I've had those "Twilight Zone" weeks where I'm like "What the hell?" There was one where my DM pulled my miles and told me I ran as hard as a weak team. Just lots of swaps, and a perfect 70 layout and I didn't stop for NOTHING. Usually a week of swaps where I don't hit a shipper or receiver is when I turn in massive miles.

I really want to get to the point of doing it like that, where I don't really worry about a steady flow, but it keeps the natives at home happy when its a steady instead of wildly bouncing. I know I'm leaving some on the table but even if a load crosses payweeks in a way I don't like, I still take the load and figure out what to do with it later.

 

I love Freightliner philosophy on things..

Active code on the crankcase breather will fix that.

Actual check engine light for two other codes ...

well since the only happened once warranty won't cover it so we cleared the codes and they didn't come back so you're good to go.....

 

When was the last time the crankcase breather filter was changed?

 

Around 150ish k miles when the crankcase breather filter showed it's ### the last time.

 

If it's been 150k since it was last replaced, it's past due.