Whats up with 62 mph?

The best way to take home more than pocket change is DON'T HAUL CHEAP FREIGHT !!

 

Best way is not to HAUL CHEAP FREIGHT and also watch your COSTS , so many so called trucking EXPERTS get the Big $ FREIGHT then blow the additional profits out the STACKS.

 

2.00 a mile @ 4.9 driving 80 mph wide open
Or
1.60 @ 7.3 mpg driving 60 mph

Who made more money if it was the exact load exact customer exact mileage ?

 

See ? You can't make a credible comparison . Nobody runs 80 mph wide open . Nobody makes money hauling for $1.60 a mile no matter how slow you drive .

http://www.truckinfo.net/trucking/stats.htm

 

Got a friend that runs 59 all the time. More MPG's. He is an O/O with Landstar.

 

Figuring at:
$4.099 per gallon
$0.36 cpm driver pay.

You will have two drivers running different times. So that will make a difference in how LONG they are on the road to make it to the other end.

I'll even put it into a pretty picture for you with colors.

Figuring revenue earned (rate * miles) - Fuel cost (miles/mpg*cost / gallon) - driver time to drive it (miles / mph * (driver pay *mph).

Super trucker wins the whole way.

 

Well for me saving an additional $0.025 per mile on FUEL costs adds $3,000.00 to each drivers BONUS at the end of the year.

And you can make $ on that $1.60 / mile freight if you know how to run a business.

Its not GREAT relocate to better freight areas income , but then most SUPER TRUCKERS deadhead for FREE.

 

and what does it cost you in driver wages for time on the road. For every extra hour he spends trying to get that load there, he looses it on the next load.

you might "gain" on one, but you "loose" on the other side of it.

 

My point I've tried to make but some have ate too many
TRUCK STOP FRUIT LOOPS , or sniffed too many PISS BOTTLES to understand ...

 

numbers don't lie....

You loose money at the lower speeds.

And those are YOUR chosen numbers. Not anyone elses.

Actually, putting labor into the equation is moot and doesn't matter.