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10% fuel savings only matters if you never have to think about maintenance costs. Same with the replacement cost for tires, although to me the tire efficiency i
by uticus 2y ago
10% fuel savings only matters if you never have to think about maintenance costs. Same with the replacement cost for tires, although to me the tire efficiency is a bigger multiplier since they aren't replaced as often as the fuel tanks are topped off.
- TylerE 2y agoTruckers can easily spend thousands a day on fuel. They’ll take it.
- nkurz 2y agoYou have a good argument, but the exaggerated numbers hurt your case. $5 per gallon and 5 gallons per miles are high/low estimates. At this rate, fuel costs $1 per mile. Are you saying they "easily" drive thousands of miles in a day? I'd hope that 2000 mile days (the minimum for "thousands") are really rare.
- AlotOfReading 2y agoIt's also not possible at legal speed limits in the US. The highest legal speed on any public road in the US is a short 85mph section on one toll road in Texas. The more common 80 mph only gets you to 1920 miles per 24h without stops.
- TylerE 2y agoThey use way more fuel in hilly areas.
- quesera 2y agoYour numbers are for an individual truck driver. A trucking company is also a trucker.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoRelatedly, it's not uncommon for trucks to have sleeper cabs and multiple drivers so that the truck is on the move close to 24 hours a day. Using the provided numbers and ordinary highway speeds, that leads to a fuel cost of more than $1000/day. Whether "thousands" has to mean strictly more than $2000 is being somewhat pedantic.
- TylerE 2y agoYes, exactly. Long haul drivers operate as 2 or 3 driver teams. They specially high value cargo. Those things stay moving. Also 5mpg is high for pulling an unawrodynamic load.
- TylerE 2y agoDiesel is well over $5/gal on the west coast right now, and flirted with $7/gal last fall