[Collard Greens]

Hello all. I have been off for a few weeks. So far I'm doing well. First couple of weeks were slow being new. But thing have picked up, last week was an $8400 week before expenses. Spent about 1000 in fuel. Only incidental was blown tire which cost 318.00. Anyways I know thing will get better with time. Oh by the way that is pulling a dry van. Most of it came from running 90 miles loads paying 500 dollars a pop. I am averaging about a buck eighty a mile.

[solo379]

Originally Posted by Collard Greens

last week was an $8400 week before expenses. .

Doesn't get any better than that....could be a lot worse tho... :P

[GMAN]

It sounds like you have gotten off to a good start. Congratulations. 8)

[Sonny Pruitt]

thats an awful lot of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$for $1000 in fuel

[Bigmon]

Collard,

What are some of things that you learned the last few weeks so I won't be as slow as when you started?

Glad you're doing good.

[GMAN]

Originally Posted by Collard Greens

Hello all. I have been off for a few weeks. So far I'm doing well. First couple of weeks were slow being new. But thing have picked up, last week was an $8400 week before expenses. Spent about 1000 in fuel. Only incidental was blown tire which cost 318.00. Anyways I know thing will get better with time. Oh by the way that is pulling a dry van. Most of it came from running 90 miles loads paying 500 dollars a pop. I am averaging about a buck eighty a mile.

I just did some quick calculations. I think your numbers are off a bit. If you are averaging $1.80/mile with $8,400 in revenue, that means that you have run 4,666 miles in one week? At 5 mpg, you would have used 933 gallons of fuel. Did I miss something? Are you saying that you spend $1,000 in fuel or bought 1,000 gallons? I don't see how you could have run that many miles pulling 90 mile freight. Perhaps you could clarify this for us?

[JR OTR]

Probably started with little fuel in the tanks and ended with a fillup... a week isn't a long time to let that average out.

[LOAD IT]

Well this post started off good. Breakdown the $8400 for us so we can believe you. Gman ran the numbers and he says something is fishy. Please prove us all wrong. I want to believe the $8400 Greens because thats the kind of money O/O's should be making each week. Congrats on getting your authority.

[yoopr]

Originally Posted by GMAN

I just did some quick calculations. I think your numbers are off a bit. If you are averaging $1.80/mile with $8,400 in revenue, that means that you have run 4,666 miles in one week? At 5 mpg, you would have used 933 gallons of fuel. Did I miss something? Are you saying that you spend $1,000 in fuel or bought 1,000 gallons? I don't see how you could have run that many miles pulling 90 mile freight. Perhaps you could clarify this for us?

At first glance I thought the figures were a bit off yesterday also but I didn't have a pen handy. Thanks GMAN :P

[Bigmon]

I think I got his numbers figured out. It looks like he spent $1000 on fuel which is about 300 gallons. If he made 17 runs for $500 each he would have $8500. If each run is 90 miles he would have gone 1530 miles which at 5 mpg he would have burned around 300 gallons.

It's the 1.80 cpm that doesn't add up. Maybe he netted 1.80 after every expense known to man.