so my first full week as a oo down.
got though my first week. took me a while to get the hang of freight again! i've been running US mail for the past 4 years. anyway, its not such a bad gig. i'm running rail work right now. its really not bad at all. the people are really nice and i seem to be making out ok.
i find that what the other drives call "not worth their time" i'm finding it to be gold. i got paid a rounder to go from harrisburg to hagerstown md. bob tailed down. brought an empty up. so, i saved fuel bobtailing, didnt burn much coming back up with an empty. did a load down to fredrick md (same day) from harrisburg. there was no emptys to take back so i went back to hagerstown to pick another empty up. got paid for the rounder from harrisburg to fredrick, then got paid another rounder from harrisburg to hagerstown, but i went from fredrick to hagerstown. so bobtailed over picked it up and went back. so what they say isnt worth it, i'll sure as hell take it.
my truck seems to be doing great. my fuel milage is anywhere from 5.5mpg-6.3mpg. when i fill up monday i'm really curious to see what its getting. according to my fuel guage (which has been a bit flaky) the guage is reading closer to 3/4 then half tank on 740 miles. i didnt believe it so i checked the tank and it looks damn close to it. the truck specs are: 04 columbia, C15 435 hp cat (single turbo MBN motor) which by the way people say is a bad motor. i put close to 5000 miles on it since i got it and this thing is rock solid. amazing down low torque... 10 speed, 3.73 grears with low pro 22.5's. i normally run anywhere between 65-67mph.. sometimes (Very rare) 70.as i said before the truck is averaging 5.5-6.3 mpg. well my rambling is done! lol!
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