Why are you driving so FAST with fuel costs so high?!

Those 4 hours can be spent at my house…

 

Not everything runs by appointments. 95% of my runs are FCFS both ends. The other 5% usually have a loading appointment but FCFS receiving. I stay ahead of the pack. Fiddle farting around means you will sit in line wasting time.

That said, going back to the same trucks, different speeds. Let’s say each of those trucks average 100k miles per year to hit that 300k gross. Let’s say it’s a year round steady lane they both run with the same appointments on both ends. The faster truck (5 mph average faster) is still off the road 45 minutes earlier every day if both trucks drive 8 hours a day 5 days a week. That adds up to about 180 hours of driving saved per year. Or seven and a half full days.

I can part with 3-4 grand for a whole ### week at the house.

 

I guess I'll drive a bit slower and take some more time off...

Yes, operations where you aren't restricted to load and deliver during a window of time will accomplish more at a higher speed. For those of us that deal with appointments where you know you aren't getting empty early it often makes little to no difference if you arrive at midnight and the guy beside you got there at 8pm when the place opens at 8am. Sure you are ahead by 4 hours and here is where the discussion of say 75 vs 65 is the added fuel expense worth those 4 hours which aren't at the house.

Agree to disagree, we all have different situations. No one-size-fits-all solution, just like so many other aspects of the trucking business.

 

I agree with the agree to disagree .

 

I can agree to disagree. Hell, this statement alone should have been the second post in this thread and that’s where it should have ended.

 

Depends on timing.
If a broker giver me 48 hours to do a 12 hour drive, I'll be in the right lane at 62. If they give me a 13 hour drive to do in 24 hours I'm doing 77 in the number 3.
Prefer cruising at 69, doing 8 mpg.

 

YOU are the one deciding the single variable must be speed.

MY entire reason for posting at all was to point at the ridiculousness of refusing to save money because it would be taxed.

Refusal to address the core question which sparked my response is, if not bad faith, willful refusal to attempt any amount of reading comprehension.

 

the "core" answer to the "core" question is still,...... nunya.

 

Snowwy's statement is true but shortsighted. Seems you share that shortsightedness

 

If thats your opinion on everything, then why bother being on a public discussion forum? And certainly, there is nothing worth you posting on, since you contribute nothing