FSC is the right ?

[jokerpop]

Ok at this time I'm still running a company truck
and my truck is still parked. But I'm I looking at this right?

Weekly Retail On-Highway Diesel Prices ($ per gallon, including all taxes)

3/10/2008
-------------------Avg. fuel price-------Fuel schg

New England --------3.938 -------------0.56
Central Atlantic------3.989 -------------0.57
Lower Atlantic-------3.814--------------0.54
Midwest ------------3.784---------------0.53
Gulf Coast-----------3.798 --------------0.53
Rocky Mtn.----------3.732---------------0.52
West Coast----------3.885---------------0.55
California------------3.955---------------0.56

* These fuel surcharges are based on the average price of fuel in each region for the week indicated.
* Total surcharge per loaded mile.
So let's say I'm hualing a load 100 miles my FSC is 0.56 per mile = $56.00 FSC
And my truck gets say 5 miles to the gal. So 100 / 5 = 20 gals
20 gals X $3.93=$78.60 and now take off the $56.00 FSC
So cost for fuel is $22.60 After FSC . So I'm I not paying $1.13 a gal
I'm I doing this right ?
Like Gman says all the time don't haul it if it don't pay right.

[solo379]

You are correct! And if you'll get 7mpg, those FSC will actually pay for all your fuel! Good luck on getting those FSC numbers tho... :wink:

[Sonny Pruitt]

sounds great
but............
is the fsc based on loaded miles
or
all dispatched miles


big difference

[Walking Eagle]

Your math is right it's just the wanabe O/Os that you here bitching about fuel price. I figure right now I am paying about the same for fuel as I was in 2000.

[jokerpop]

You are correct! And if you'll get 7mpg, those FSC will actually pay for all your fuel! Good luck on getting those FSC numbers tho... :wink:

Thanks, It just did not look right too me. Right now with 26 ton on and dead heading back I'm getting 6.50mpg and if I keep her at 65mph I get 7.25mpg. That's a dedicated run I do with a company truck. Today I was sent back with my load and got 5.50mpg round trip.

[jokerpop]

sounds great
but............
is the fsc based on loaded miles
or
all dispatched miles
big difference

That's for loaded miles. I'm looking at hooking up with a local company and the deal is 75% of load, FSC on all loaded miles and a % of the tolls. Running the north east.

[jokerpop]

Your math is right it's just the wanabe O/Os that you here bitching about fuel price. I figure right now I am paying about the same for fuel as I was in 2000.

Will that's me :sad: rigth now "wanaba". But I have learned alot reading this forum. The company I'm looked at said I'm one of the few that asked about the FSC.

Your math is right it's just the wanabe O/Os that you here bitching about fuel price. I figure right now I am paying about the same for fuel as I was in 2000.

Well I don't know about this wanna be OO stuff but I think it's more of a way for these ""baby"" driver types that want to run leased on to a mega carrier for 85 cents a mile to justify why they can't be a real OO . Also trying to justify being a glorified company driver by jumping every time their leased on company barks for them to do some-thing ??? They feel like they need this company to be leased on to so that this company can tell them what to do n what to haul n for how much and where to because they can't make those decisions theirselves ?? I'd rather just be a everyday company driver without worrying about trying to believe that I could maintain a truck on 85 cents a mile these days and even try to make as much as that company driver makeing 50 cents a mile with no expenses ???? Thats ""IF"" they get a decent FSC in the first place ???

[jokerpop]

Your math is right it's just the wanabe O/Os that you here bitching about fuel price. I figure right now I am paying about the same for fuel as I was in 2000.

Well I don't know about this wanna be OO stuff but I think it's more of a way for these ""baby"" driver types that want to run leased on to a mega carrier for 85 cents a mile to justify why they can't be a real OO . Also trying to justify being a glorified company driver by jumping every time their leased on company barks for them to do some-thing ??? They feel like they need this company to be leased on to so that this company can tell them what to do n what to haul n for how much and where to because they can't make those decisions theirselves ?? I'd rather just be a everyday company driver without worrying about trying to believe that I could maintain a truck on 85 cents a mile these days and even try to make as much as that company driver makeing 50 cents a mile with no expenses ???? Thats ""IF"" they get a decent FSC in the first place ???

I feel to many people just say ok to the company on the 1st offher, and don't do any negotiating. Tha company I'm looking at was at 68% of the load,FSC when they get it and no toll money. pulling their van. After talking to them,long story short. I have them up too, 75% of the load, a $1.00 amile dead head North Jersey to PA,100% of the FSC that they get from the two companys and a % of the tolls. That realy works for me is it;s a dedicated run.Right now they are slow,like alot of others. They will pick up again in the next month.