Rev wrote:
I guess you do lose miles when they turn your truck down.. :P ..carlos....Who you run for ????

(Hey Rev....maybe now he will "get it"..... :lol: )

 

Uhhh! Wow, 3300 miles a month! Now that is hauling some serious tail!

Sheesh, If my average a month was less than 12000 a month (when I was on mileage) - I would be divorced and unemployed! They would both think I had a girl friend somewhere or dead!

 

Hey Donald Trump. Rev is pointing out the fact that you posted you run 3300 miles PER MONTH. You sure are putting away some serious cash for only driving 750 miles per week.

 

I just realized my typo. I can't believe I didn't catch that earlier.

 

Had a blond moment! No deal, it was fun trying to figure out how long it would take you to catch on!

 

I think Carlos owes me an apology. He hurt my feelings. :cry:








Okay, that's not true. It's been documented already that I have no feelings.

 

Alrighty then!

 

Nonetheless, I apologize, dooood.

 

Just got back on the board after a hiatus.

2 weeks ago I did a 332 mile trip. One way - bob tail. At 65 mph according to the Cummins on board computer I was getting 6.4-6.8 mpg, drop it to 60 and it was 7.8 - 8.1 and then when cruising at 55 I got 11.9 - 12.1

Now this was in a county plow truck (on the way to a body builder for the heavy metal) but it only had a 410hp 1550 engine with an 8LL trans - not exactly mpg spec truck.

The fact that larger companies are turning down trucks only makes sense - I've seen the benefits myself.

Fuel is the larges cost and the one thing hurting their bottom line the most the quickest. It is natural to take care of that first.

 

I just got pointed to this thread, so let me make one thing clear from a moderator standpoint.

The playground insults are over. I see no problem with bickering and disagreeing, but when the best part of your argument is how best to use the word "retard" or "a-hole", you have already lost.

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That's the only warning we'll give.

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Now, as far as the premise of the post, it's going to boil down to a very simple thing. If you cannot handle truck speeds getting turned down, it's time to get out of the industry.

And no, buying a truck doesn't count because if you do, then you are a hypocrite. Why? Because if you buy a truck, you will do one of two things.

- You will run it at 75 for a month and then be out of business, thereby proving all the "slow" companies right.

- Or you will run it at 60 along with all the "slow" company trucks, because it makes good business sense, again thereby proving all the "slow" companies right.

Again. :roll:

What part of that is hard to understand?

Newsflash for those that haven't gotten it yet. Companies are in business to stay in business. And businesses must change and adapt to adverse conditions and economies. If they don't, they are soon nothing more than a memory. And when they go, so does your job.

Those of you harping about supposedly getting less pay need to realize that before this is all over, every major company will have reduced truck speed and reduced idling. It's part of the changing industry and there's a lot of change on the horizon. You can either deal with it or you can move on. It's really that simple and no amount of whining is going to change it.

Look at it this way. There is no driver shortage...there is a serious driver glut right now. Many companies have either shut down or greatly restricted orientation and hiring of new drivers. The big companies are reducing fleet size by a thousand or more. Many of the big companies are also moving to a "short to medium haul" philosophy because the shorter freight pays a whole lot more than the long haul stuff. Coast to coast stuff is moving more and more to the rails.

A lot of the bigger companies are also reducing pay for incoming drivers. So, ask yourself how well you are going to do by leaving your current company because they reduced truck speed and winding up with a company making a dime less per mile, all to go 2 or 3 MPH more?

Bigger companies are also pushing lease purchase harder than ever because they know they'll find plenty of suckers out there that will be all too happy to jump into a "fast" truck and deliver their freight for a couple of months before they lose their "fast" truck. But no matter, they'll be another "fast" trucker sucker standing in line and ready to jump in the repo'd truck.

Then there are the little companies who are going out of business at the rate of thousands a week because they can't afford the fuel for those 85 MPH trucks that are tricked out with chrome and driver toys.

The industry is changing and it's changing fast. If you can't adapt to change, you might want to start looking through the want ads. Face it, you have no say in it. Right, wrong, or indifferent, you either change or leave. Whining about it is pointless. Making demands of your employer will simply get you a quick boot out the door. And bottom line, there is NO $.35 per mile company out there that is going to switch to paying a driver $30 an hour because the driver demanded it. That was rather funny, though.

So, in the end, it's all about change. The changes coming at this industry are going to be large scale. At first, it'll seem to be on the negative side for drivers: lower speed, shorter hauls, less idling. As things begin to shake out and the surviving companies begin to stablize, you'll probably see more driver perks coming about: more short haul dedicated runs, more salary runs, more bonuses (mileage, idling, etc), more perks like APU systems, etc.

Again, you either role with the changes or you move on. And it's tough out there right now. Not many jobs like trucking where you can get in and have the potential for $40K, $50K, $60K or more and not even have to have a college education. So take a good long hard look at the economy as a whole (not just trucking) and ask yourself just how trivial it is go have to go a few MPH slower?

I think the answer is pretty obvious.