What is your MPG?

Yeah thats what I was figuring would happen. Did you have an active fault at the same time? (DEF air pressure)

 

7.74 fuel 8% out of route

 

For the week or for the quarter? I've been cursed with I44 into the wind and I77 during hail storms, etc. Can't seem to get the wind at my back. Running right at 7.1 or so the past couple weeks. OOR good during the week, but the weekend set me back again.

Galion, OH to US Steel Lorain Works 69 tariff, 79 actual
To Home and off to Tulsa 910 tariff, 1009 projected

Terrific for what it's been lately, but I will have to make up more miles along the way this week. Of course, if I didn't go home, the total would be about 80 miles shorter. Best weekend load for total miles that I've had yet this quarter. Can't complain much at almost a thousand by Monday morning.

Only three loads this week and 2380 miles with one tarp.

This Friday's paycheck netted only $450 so it's good to see the miles spring back (had 1650 by Wednesday and picked up Thursday morning for a Monday delivery).

This week I busted my ### driving max speed to get to a consignee because the FM absolutely insisted the load should not be late. Rescheduled delivery myself because the FM said it should not be late (ETAP showed delivery the FOLLOWING day). Got to consignee by 1430 on Thursday (they accepted me a half hour after they stop taking deliveries to personally accommodate this load). Got a load for US Steel for a pickup 22 hours later at noon on Friday. Makes you want to choke someone sometimes. I could have delivered Friday morning and STILL had a few hours wiggle room to get to US Steel. The speed through the mountains on I77 through the hail storm was completely unnecessary.

I should just stop calling my FM altogether and use Qualcomm as exclusively as I can. Ball's in his court if he doesn't take action off that. In retrospect, it was an unnecessary risk I did not have to take for the stupid reason of not wanting to set off my FM knowing his calculations were dead wrong. He was assuming drive time without taking into consideration that the consignee closed after 9 hours of driving. He thought I had two minutes to make up, not two hours, which was the case. I drove 550 miles in just under 9 hours through the Appalachians, across US35, up US23 through the heart of Columbus and the accompanying construction on I670, and through the countryside to get to Galion only 20 minutes late for an appointment ETAP said I could not deliver until the next day. Not again. It's not worth it.

 

ETAP is set at 48 miles an hour. At that speed it gives you time for bathroom breaks fueling etc. I don't know why your FM would not do a rescheduled. I'll agree with you 100% I'm not driving like a madman for any delivery. My favorite saying is if they need it sooner they should have ship it sooner. It is better to put out the QUALCOMM that way eliminates I thought this I thought that it was it writing cover your own but.

 

I thought ETAP was set for 50. Been told that several times by different FMs. On a trip like this where you're going through mountain passes and a large percentage of the trip is in a 55 zone or a stop light derby, the ETAP falls flat on it's face.

BTW, if ETAP is 48 or even 50, why does my FM expect me to be able to do 600 miles a day on a long haul? Seems to me 550 would be the maximum IF you were able to both use all of your 11 AND pull in just under the wire. I've had several trips this year where I've had to pull 600 miles out of a hat to make an appointment. One of those was up North when it was 25 below zero, I made it with 15 minutes to spare on a Thursday and if I would have been late I would have sat there until Monday morning. Can't remember the name of the place, just that they shared a building with Victory Motorcycles (not assembly, fuel tank manufacturing, I believe). Northeast of St. Paul in Wisconsin (Osceola?). That was the weekend it was so cold my tire pressure monitor went off and my FM attempted to ##### me out for driving to the truck stop instead of putting in a breakdown macro to send a truck out to air up the tires. I sat there almost a day waiting on a work assignment.

 

Quartly update as of Sunday 05/13 in my '07

6.998 mpg
13.77 OOR

I had a 1200 mile dead head last week and averaged 8.2 mpg so that helped out for sure.