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<p>[QUOTE="gentleroger, post: 11627681, member: 43957"]Based on all the empirical evidence - no a hotel does not make more fiscal sense than a sleeper truck.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a for example when I have a female trainee they need a hotel room every night. Often the hotel with truck parking is either off route, requires stopping very early, or is expensive as heck. For the hotels that have 'truck parking', what happens when they have space for three trucks are you're the fifth truck that reserves a room? How long do you spend trying to find that hotel room in the first place?</p><p><br /></p><p>If getting hotels made any kind of sense financially then all the megas would be going that route. Even with my company's considerable pull we are paying $70 a night for my trainee this week. Over the course of a year you're looking at least $10,000 in hotel costs. That will easily pay for an apu and all associated maintenance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gentleroger, post: 11627681, member: 43957"]Based on all the empirical evidence - no a hotel does not make more fiscal sense than a sleeper truck. As a for example when I have a female trainee they need a hotel room every night. Often the hotel with truck parking is either off route, requires stopping very early, or is expensive as heck. For the hotels that have 'truck parking', what happens when they have space for three trucks are you're the fifth truck that reserves a room? How long do you spend trying to find that hotel room in the first place? If getting hotels made any kind of sense financially then all the megas would be going that route. Even with my company's considerable pull we are paying $70 a night for my trainee this week. Over the course of a year you're looking at least $10,000 in hotel costs. That will easily pay for an apu and all associated maintenance.[/QUOTE]
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