Week Ending 6/29

....Owosso,MI----->Hamilton,OH (customer unload)
....Hamilton,OH---->Grove City,OH (drop dirty)
...Grove City,OH---->Columbus,OH (hook load)
Columbus,OH---->Greensboro,NC (driver unload,truck pump)
.....Greensboro,NC----->Thomasville,NC (live load)
Thomasville,NC------>Logansport,IN (driver assist)
....Logansport,IN----->Crestwood,IL (drop dirty,hook clean)
....Crestwood,IL---->Chicago,IL (live load)
Chicago,IL------>Hamilton,OH (customer unload)
....Hamilton,OH----->Crestwood,IL (drop dirty,hook clean)

Total Miles: 2.434
Deadhead Miles: 280,12%
Gross Pay: $4,897.11 ($2.01 a mile)
YTD Miles: 63,693
YTD Gross: $ 114,608.40 (1.80 a mile)
Total Loads: 76
Hazmat: 17,22%

 

Week Ending 7/6

.....Crestwood,IL---->Lemont,IL (live load)
Lemont,IL------>Omaha,NE (driver unload,truck pump)
....Omaha,NE----->Liberty,MO (drop dirty,tank wash)
....Liberty,MO----->Kansas City,KS (driver load,truck pump)
Kansas City,KS----->Chicago,IL (driver assist,truck air)
...Chicago,IL---->Crestwood,IL (drop dirty,hook load)
Crestwood,IL---->Muskegon,MI (driver assist)
....Muskegon,MI----->Midland,MI (drop dirty)
....Midland,MI-----Owosso,Mi (hometime)

Total Miles: 1,567
Deadhead Miles: 370,24%
Gross Pay: $3,453.95 ($2.20 a mile)
YTD Miles: 65,260
YTD Gross: $ 118,062.35 ($1.81 a mile)
Total Loads:79
Hazmat: 19,24%

 

Week Ending 7/13

Off on Vacation :lol: :lol: 8)

 

Good lord. I've been kickin ass since the 27th of june, and still won't catch up to you, even if august is as good to me as july was!!!!

2 weeks of breakdown in may, then 2 weeks of vacation in june killed me.....but man....was I relaxed when I came back to work!!!

 

25 pages, just read them all.

The jury is still out on this mileage job with QC. Two main concerns:

I absolutely, utterly miss controlling the if, when and where of my driving. I wonder if I can stay in tankers and ever get that back again.

Secondly, I don't like to think what 45,000lbs of moving liquid is doing to my truck. What really gets me is some of those starts, when the liquid is moving backwards, and then *BAM* Oh, my poor flywheel (or clutch plate or tranny or rears or...) Everyone says you get better at it, but I seriously doubt anyone is eliminating it.

I guess there is one last thing. With so much fuel money moving through these trucks, right now is a time when guys can really boost their profits by beating 6mpg. Running heavy like this, we're probably running 1 to 1.5 mpg less than we would with light freight.

On the other hand, I've never gotten detention or layover like I am now. It's practical miles and not shortest or HHG- I just respect any company for going with an accurate mileage program. I never have to worry about looking for a load, the more I deadhead the merrier.

I just want back control of my life. :cry: Seriously, I could have stayed at Landstar indefinitely if it weren't for a couple things including the fact that I wasn't making the riches I hear everyone else claiming to make. Me, I like to truck to support everything else I want to do in whichever city I want. I did my best to get down to Lakeland, Fl a lot this summer. If I was picking my own loads, I'd be headed to the truck show in Dallas (I've never been to one). A lot of guys just want to get back to the house. Me, I want to go here and there, I want to call the shots. I really loved the opportunity to take off a day, a week or a month without anyone really knowing or caring.

I've been hanging out over at Kevin Rutherford's sight, CDLofit. Kevin has a lot to share, and I like all the talk about business and mileage improvements. Even so, coming back to CAD, I see there are still a lot of quality posters and a lot of meaty topics. Over there, the threads move through so quickly it's hard to have a long running dialogue about one particular thing.

Well, I'm broke down for the weekend, under load. Fan hub, can't get the part until Monday, Mike, I hope you don't mind a little talk in between your pay numbers. Honestly, the only number I look at is your YTD rate per hub mile. It's a great yardstick for how I'm doing (not even close, though there are the tradeoffs). Plus, this is the best collection of O/O tankers on the web...well, the little I've seen!

 

????....Is this "Cam" under a new name??

 

Baffled tanks and full loads significantly reduce this. When I was hauling liquids we almost never had a partial load unless it was spring time which means road bans up here (some roads would only allow 75% of GVWR). After a few runs it's just like any other load.

 

Oh, sorry about that, OTG. Same Bill the Cat avatar, I just wanted a new name. It's me!

How about all this, Orange Texas Guy? It seems you have to do better than the other sectors of trucking just to compensate for the added wear and tear and increased fuel cost. I even have to pay $200/mo for occupational accident insurance to be around these chemicals. Oh man, I'm on the hook for $7500 in equipment modifications! We've got to make more just to break even. We only really come out ahead if we make more than more, if you know what I mean.

A guy like Bandit's Cousin, if salaries were grades, he's what we used to call a 'curve dick' - singularly wrecking the grading curve hauling pillows for $4/mi. :wink:

 

That sounds like the rare tanker job, lostNfound. There's just too much room in the tank with regards to weight limits.

 

LOL...Ok CAM!! I signed on with Miller, simply because of the fact that Miller paid to install the PTO & driveline. They provide the pump, and it's maintenence, the hoses, and the fittings. I've put my year in, so if I walk, I don't owe squat for the "Outfitting". That is what you need to do right now. Wait for those outfitting charges to disappear. Once that happens, you have the equipment, so if you do jump, you don't incur the "outfit" again. If you upgrade your truck, you make the swap part of the purchase deal, so the equipment stay's with you.

Your still "New" at Quality, so nobody knows you or how you work yet, and I think that maybe part of your situation. I know I went through it here at Miller...but the last few months I have been averaging $7200 a week on 2200 to 2500 miles. This week is going to be low. I'm headed home tomorrow after I unload in Port Lavaca TX..unless Miller loads me out of Houston with oil for Sulphur LA tuesday. I have had a couple 10 and 12 grand weeks in the mix...but 3 & 4 loads in a week is a bitch!!!

As for the surge. You should be doing your starts and stops "Soft". If you are powering into a load, then stopping fast...that is a bad thing. Eliminate the hard starts and stops, do the progressive shift, skip shift,and lay off the clutch as much as possible!! Now...some of this crap we haul..it's going to surge regardless...you just do the best you can to mitigate it.

Have you had your fifth wheel checked? If not do so. If it needs rebuild that could well be part of the problem. I suggest Brenner or Utility trailer. Polar and Great Dane would work also. I trust the trailer joints more so than the truck shops when it comes to fifth wheel checks.

I don't remember what truck you have, the specs, or even where your terminal is..so sorry. But shifting soft helps kill the surges...and soft stops does as well.