There is money to be made with 9+ mpg trucks

Seems to me the guys who worry the most about fuel are usually the ones hauling the cheapest loads. Not that everyone doesn't want 10mpg and do what they can to achieve it (within reason) but the guys who can only survive at 7mpg but are broke at 6.5 seem to be the bottom feeders. I had a load yesterday that paid $1.50 CWT + fuel, (which was $6.00 per mile on 26,000#) someone took for $0.71. Probably complaining to someone how a broker is screwing him.

 

Wow.

 

There are several ways to look at it.

Driving 58 in a 70 is not good business sense. You loose too much productivity.

Driving 78 in a 70 is not good business sense. You tear #### up.

The pissing match comes when people state 62 is a must because it's so much better than 67.

Setting the cruise in the sweet spot set to 67 makes more business sense to me if you get the same mileage than it does at setting a truck up to run 62. Especially when it means 5 weeks, (ok, I'll give a 25% benefit of the doubt to the ones who say road construction delays etc.), 3.75 weeks is a LOT of loads to toss out the window at the end of the year.

 

As a rule of thumb, every 1 MPH over 50 MPH decreases fuel economy .1 MPG or costs you $1200/year.

 

Every mile per hour speed equals 1 week

PHP:

 

So then 52mph is optimum?

 

There is no one size fits all.
A smart o/o can adjust on continual basis to get the best return.
A company driver has other priorities and the company he drives for have to make blanket rules that they deem best on average.

 

Using the logic of some around here, it would actually be 43 mph.

 

I run 20. Getting 9mpg in my Columbia grossing 140,000lbs. Yeah, 200 miles a day for me. Dispatch hates me for some reason lol

Ethan