any truckdrivers on here?

[Procharger]

and how much does that cost and how often do you hit 15000?

i pay 225.00 for a service fuel filters ,oil filter, oil ,air filter grease and adjust and check brakes...and a wash..depend how hard i want to run it takes 1 1/2 - 2 months 2 150 gal tanks cost around 1100.00 to fill up

 

[Trucker Mike]

I do a short service (filters * lube) at 10k & 20k, full service (fluid change + filters + lube) at every 30k. I don't pay chit. I'm a company driver.

My truck consumes about 100 gallons of fuel per day I run, which is about 330 days a year.
-33,000 gallons a year x 3.29/gal avg = $108,000 x 400 trucks in our fleet = 43.2mil in fuel this last year.

Everything that it costs to manufacture and transport (and profit from) a product is passed on to the consumer eventually.

I averaged 11,800 miles/month for the last 2 years.

 

[Mr Bogus]

I was running 5k a week as a trainer.. carried 300G of fuel in a pair of 160G saddle tanks..

I was running semi dedicated from East Chicago to Gaffney SC/ Woodstock Ontario/Buffalo and back to SC twice a week.. home every weekend.. Was pretty nice sacked out in the bunk getting paid for trainee miles

(except for the one that went south on 75 instead of north) woke up about 20 minutes out of Georgia.... dip wad....

Other weeks we would run Chicago to LA/back to Phx and then pickup copper in Morenci/Globe/Miami back to Chicago.. And then there were the "boys town" runs

(if ya gotta ask you dont wanna know)

If I could keep a better half running like that I would have stayed... met a lot of great guys driving...

 

[NIGHTFLIGHT]

<---glass hauler

I hauled windshields 4 triumph auto glass 5 years

Last summer dump truck +flatbeds Im can do flatbeds but dont prefer them.

 

[NIGHTFLIGHT]

5 years as a driver/trainer and hauling steel coils OTR and regional..  

I ran with a number of you "werner" glass trucks IN/Tenn/VA area...  nice gig that is... (what are you doing on a std flat bed? thought all those glass trailers were drops or steps decks)    I would rather be in a big truck any day when the weather gets nasty...  

Got tanker endorsed but never pulled one..  Guessing you are home every day

yes now i am but I ran expidited or hot freight 3 years usa+ontario Tankers are good till you make a wave baCK THERE
coils??? those have be loaded certain way dont they??Saw one come loose @ rest erea once he had call heavy duty wrecker 2 help hold the thing up while he re chained it.

 

[NIGHTFLIGHT]

You know its funny that I read this thread. My buddy and I were talking today while driving to Daytona and the discussion came up about big trucks.

With all of the miles that you guys put on those trucks on a monthly basis how often do you replace the oil?
We were discussing about all of our service vehicles that are all Ford E350 diesels and we change oil every 5000 miles (that is about every 6 weeks) and that cost me company about $125 each time and I have 10 of these.

So what is the answer?

Thanks,
Jim

 

 

On a freightliner with mercedes benz in it every 10,000 miles fuel filter every 30,000

 

[SAMBUSA]

Snow and ice? Nope, doesn't slow me down one bit.

 

[NIGHTFLIGHT]

all right, one more pic, then I'll end my hijack.

SAMBUSA I stop 4 every crossing I come to

2 month loss of cdl if a diesel bear or full grown seem me not stop 1 year second offense

 

[DR1300R]

Snow and ice?  Nope, doesn't slow me down one bit.

That's because trains are just slow period..

 

[Mr Bogus]

Hey I was in Colorado hiking and a train came by and the front engine had a ginormous plow on the front making a one man blizzard... was pretty cool (even if it was slow)

 

[SAMBUSA]

Snow and ice?  Nope, doesn't slow me down one bit.

That's because trains are just slow period..  

Yeah, I know. 50 mph with a train 2 miles long and 12,000 tons is slow but it doesn't seem slow after you plow into somebody and it takes over a mile to stop

 

[SAMBUSA]

all right, one more pic, then I'll end my hijack.

SAMBUSA I stop 4 every crossing I come to

2 month loss of cdl if a diesel bear or full grown seem me not stop  1 year second offense

Good to hear. That would make for one hell of a fireball

 

[Rayabusa0818]

DR1300R and wife team drive for Westside.

Sounds like a trucker story to me..  

Does it go something like this

 

[DR1300R]

DR1300R and wife team drive for Westside.

Sounds like a trucker story to me..  

Does it go something like this

That's exactly what our large car looks like.. You are good my friend..

 

[BigK]

I work for the best trucking company in the world...(J. B. Hunt)

B-Service every 30,000 miles.

 

[NIGHTFLIGHT]

 

[ike]

I work for the best trucking company in the world...(J. B. Hunt)

 B-Service every 30,000 miles.

When one of JB Hunts trucks are down and end up at my place
it seems as if the world just ended if it's not fixed fast enough.
Makes me laugh. Freightliner tech here.

 

[Mr Bogus]

I work for the best trucking company in the world...(J. B. Hunt)

B-Service every 30,000 miles.

B service took a full day for me... just had to bite the bullet... really sux when your week has no room for a lost day..

I think a train job might be fun...

 

[Copperone]

I've done a little bit of everything in trucking.  Pullled 53' dry vans as an owner operater for about 10 years.  Pulled 53' refers and dry vans, and doubles for Gorden. Hauled produce for Cross Creek for a couple of years.  I finally got tired of fighting the snow and ice every Sunday morning running from Medford, Oregon to Klamath Falls, Oregon and then on to Califorina.  So... we moved to Arizona where I drove for Knight for a couple of months until I couldn't stand their slow trucks anymore.   I was able to get a local job delivering mostly frozen goods and produce here in the Phoenix.  That job petered out.  What to do... I got a job in construction driving a Super 18 dump truck.  And... thats what I've been doing the last 2 and 1/2 years.   The biggest reason I'm not over the road is because I just got tired of dealing with the snow and ice mostly around Mount Shasta, all over Idaho and the Mountains of Oregon. I have hauled hazmat in snow and ice and it was definately not something I enjoyed. I've never hauled any type of fuels though.

 

[Trucker Mike]

I work for the best trucking company in the world...(J. B. Hunt)

Yer kidding, right?

J.B. Hunt?

Tell me yer kidding.

No company with more than 1k trucks can ever be considered "the best". It's not possible.