Running with JCT

Yes JCT covers the cost and filing of fuel taxes.

 

You can also use dieselboss to check fuel prices. I think it is accurate .

 

I heard that Soule_Man was getting close by his location in Phoenix, I am supposed to call him in a few minutes to see where he landed! I hope he is able to find a spot at the J on 67th avenue! I think I will go look at his truck. I'm still a ways from heading to JCT if I go but I will know what the Evolution looks like.

 

do the evos have HID headlights

 

Joker what part of town are you in?

 

The new ones are coming with LED headlights: http://fleetowner.com/equipment/tru...sition-cascadia-and-cascadia-evolution-trucks

 

Well today was another good running day. A roller coaster ride up and down from Santa Rosa NM to Phoenix AZ. I ended up running 596 miles in 9 hr and 12 minutes. Not too bad but I did get my fuel mileage up to 7.3mpg . That is running at an average of 65 or so mph and I am weighing out at 76000 lbs. So I am definitely starting to get used to how it drives. I will drop in the morning at 5am and then hopefully get a big run.

 

Is anyone of you guys at the TA in Ontario East? I saw a couple of JCT trucks when I got in a little while ago.

 

Another big day today. Jamestown, NM to Tehachapi, CA for 641 miles and, get this, 9.3 mpg! I was shooting for 8.5 with all the downhill, but this load (barely 12k lbs) feels like an empty trailer. That brings my total for the week up to 2811 miles at 7.8 mpg on the Qualcomm with a day and a half left. I'm less than 100 miles to my drop and hook in the morning. The question on everybody's mind (well, on MY mind!) is where to next?

Porterville puts me in the neighborhood of a couple of good valley shippers. There's Leprino over in Lemoore and a couple of carrot shippers near Bakersfield. Leprino cheese has some big miles available. I ran from there to Dover, Florida at 2,600 miles in July. I'm always happy to be on one of the coasts. Those big loads can't start anywhere else!

I'm back on track for my 13,500 mile month. Well, at least temporarily! My logbook is a mass of burning rubble right now with all kinds of weird hours on the recap. I'll start tomorrow with 12.9 hrs, then pick up 3.8, 7.9, and 9.9 through Thursday. That juicy Dover load usually has some time built into it so maybe I can swing by the house and sit for a day.

Cash Flow

On my settlement for last Thursday, I got paid for only 1,640 miles. I just missed the deadline to get my Salinas to Ochelata load (1,813 miles) on that settlement. Durable readers may recall that after my 10 days off in August, I had two weeks of negative settlements ending up $5 in the hole, but a lot of fuel in the tanks at the end. That fuel helped make last week's short settlement total $793. The variable lease program is the bomb!

This week, I'll get paid for 3,758 miles. The Excel spreadsheet suggests that I earned about $1,665 on that at 7.2 mpg, but it depends on where the fuel gets paid for the actual amount. If I get a long trip and don't make the deadline for this week's settlement, then this week will be about 3,300 miles (I never saw the total miles for that Ft. Worth swap, I'm figuring about 1,730 miles with the d/h). At about 7.8 mpg that would be $1,550 for the week or $.47/mile profit! I LOVE MPGs! At 7.2 mpg my pay would have dropped to about $1,415, or $.43/mile.

Enough math for tonight. I'm going inside to watch the end of the game.

 

Very nice numbers under some difficult conditions. I'm glad to hear how you're getting into progressive shifting. Still only 2k on the odometer too!