THE ADVENTURES CONTINUE - DFO gets a truck and hops on Schneider's IC Choice Program

Not a bad idea, I'll remember that for next time.

 

This week in numbers.

So this week was a full week. And I mean a FULL WEEK.

Unfortunately, running nights means that I end after the pay period cutoff at midnight on Monday, so the pay for the last load is shifted over to the next pay period. I was going to try to squeeze the last load in before midnight by leaving Charlotte around noon Monday, but I was unable to fall asleep early enough on Monday morning. I just tossed and turned all night/morning because I am so used to stay awake until 6-7am. I didn't feel safe driving on 5 hours of sleep, so I got my sleep and did my night driving as usual. Doesn't matter, $$ gets to me one way or the other.

For the sake of this though, I will combine everything into one pay period. It just as easily could have been all in one pay period had I not been driving nights where each work day for me is technically split over two actual days.

I needed a break from I-81 and PA so this week I ran the south. Rates are not as good, but not bad. I run the same customers as I always do. 100% drop and hook, heaviest loads 20k, others only 10k. Easy easy stuff. The downside is especially in GA I run a fair bit of out of route to stay on the interstates and 4-lane state routes vs. goatpathing. I do not like goatpathing if I don't have to especially in the middle of the night with 1340146341 deer jumping across the road, alongside GA's finest drunken residents cruising the back roads at 3am. I will gladly take the "on paper" hit to my rates and run 20-40 miles OOR and stay on the big road vs starting and stopping through 50 little towns. I also took a trailer through Charlotte to get it repaired which cost me another 50 miles OOR.

I did have to fight recap hours this week as taking a restart running the vampire hours that I do takes me two days of sitting to complete which is not worth it unless I'm going to be sitting at home.

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Start and end week at Carlisle OC

Start Tuesday 7/22 1600
End Tuesday 7/29 0530

PA > NC
VA > GA
GA > VA
VA> GA
GA > NC
NC > PA

Total miles 3411 <-- most I have ever run in a one week period
Gross $4784.5

Rate per odometer mile:
$1.40

So, not great, $0.10 below my goal, but lets remember I ran a lot of OOR and also had two load issues this week that cost me miles and pay. If I get the VNU for the one cancelled load ($150) and lets pretend I never took that trailer through Charlotte (OOR ~50 miles) that brings the total rate per odometer mile to $1.47. Much better. So, lesson learned - either drag the trailer (*cough* *cough* not exactly legally) THEN OOS it (NOT RECOMMENDING THAT ANYONE DO THIS), OR refuse to move it until fixed.

I finally got around to looking into my fuel costs. Over the past 23k miles or so I have been writing down my odometer readings and gallons fueled every time I fueled up. I put them into a spreadsheet (mind you I'm very tired and there is a good chance I entered some numbers wrong LOL) and so far over the past 23k miles I have averaged 6.6 MPG. This seems bad!

So I looked further into it. I noticed on my spreadsheet there was a point at which there was a significant drop, and it appears around the time I started driving 65-70MPH!

So I went back and looked at the averages of the fuel mileage back when I drove 60MPH pretty consistently, BEFORE the drop on my spreadsheet - average 6.78 MPG!

Then I look at AFTER the drop - average 6.34 MPG!

Guess what?!?! I'LL BE SLOWING THE **** BACK DOWN.

Anyway, back to the weeks numbers. So, I've averaged 6.6 MPG over the past 23k miles. I always write down the price of the fueling too, but this is before my discount through SNI at P/FJ. Before the discount it comes to an average of $3.85/gallon. Lets use a conservative discount and say its actually costing me $3.75/gallon.

So, cost per mile for fuel is $0.583 CPM

SO, eventually, split apart on two paychecks, when the stars align with the blue moon and I do the rain dance and somehow the money gets to me, this week will have contributed in the follow manner:

+ $4784.5 gross
- $1988 in fuel
- $1075 in fixed expenses (truck payment, maint account contrib, tags, insurance, etc)

Net Income Before Tax:
$1721.5 (maybe +$150 if SNI decides I get the VNU for the cancelled load)

**DISCLAIMER**

I'M FRIGGIN' TIRED
I CAN DRIVE THE **** OUT OF A TRUCK BUT MATH IS NOT MY STRONG SUIT
IT MIGHT BE WRONG

SOMEONE PHONE 6SPEED TIME TO PICK APART THE NUMBERS