SO .. Where is the money - most OO going UNDER

Fuel is the biggest cost so, I know idling will burn a hole in the wallet. Figure you burn 1 gallon per hour @ $3.40 a gallon X 10 hours = $34.00 a night. X 30 nights a month = $1020 a month in wasted fuel. I know driving slower helps with mpg. I think the goal is to either break even or if possible make a profit on the fuel surcharge.

 

Well, closing in on another week and I haven't gone under.

I consider this thread title a challenge. I'm game.

 

That's why I have a small generator and ac unit in-on the truck. $3 a night.

 

I never had an apu, and almost never idled 10 hours at any time the temp was at least 0. Even at 0 my I could warm my truck up and shut it down to sleep. It would be 4 hours or more before I needed to crank it up for an hour or so. I would do the same thing in the summer, unless it was ungodly hot, then I would let it run while I was in it. But I never just stayed in the truck 10 hours at a time either.

 

It might be the night shade battery powered APU

 

Pics / location

 

I will guarantee they are not looking at FB. They know everything about you before you even pull up to the window. They know what you usually haul and the reputation of your carrier.

One of the things they are looking at on the screen is PRISM:

About PRISM

 

Maybe most of the time, but if they did all the time they would know I am pulling a flat or step, and there have been times they didn't know until they looked at it.

 

Amen... Not at all humorous when you tell him it's "Picture Frames and Dough Boards.....
Beneke toilet seats. That was our standard reply when someone asked. Especially if you had seen them glance up at the six foot square pic of one, (lid up) on the top front corner of the trailer.

 

On those tolls... dont do 80 out of Chicago.. jump on 65 south after Gary, IL then get on SR 30. Jump back on 80 when you get to PA... Zero tolls.. A little bit of stop and go until Ft Wayne but nothing worth paying several hundred in tolls over..