we're losing $1.249 fuel
 

I told my buddy it was coming but he says no way we have it written into our contract $ 1.249 per gallon fuel for life at FedEx Ground well guess what we found out yesterday? as of 10/6/08 we will pay pump price and get a FSC based on 5.8 mpg which is not the easiest thing to do pulling doubles but not impossible. we also got a .03 cpm increase so not all bad news.

Kevin Rutherford has 3 trucks running fedex ground, and has said he'll make 40k more per truck when they switch to FSC.

All you have to do is beat 5.8 and you'll make more money. Not hard to do.

I'd be curious to see the numbers on that. A quick computation shows that IF he's running teams doing 200,000 miles at 7.3 mpg AND the FSC is pegged at 1.259, the savings at a fuel price of $4.499 would be a hair under $30,000 per. Less miles and/or lower mpg will result in less savings. At 200,000 miles you'd have to average almost 8 mpg to get $40,000 in savings. Maybe you can do that pulling doubles.

You're right, I mis-typed. 40k overall, about 13k per truck.

I agree, get better than 5.8mpg and you make more money, I've got my 05 classic governed at 69 right now and been getting 5.5 5.6 gonna slow it down to 65 and see what that does.

anyone know were I can get a good deal on the


TURBO 3000

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LOL!

Do you listen to his show? Do you notice he tries to talk about it a lot less nowadays?

and in case you missed it:

http://www.classadrivers.com/phpBB2/...larry&start=15

Furbis have you thought of converting to a single axle?

no I haven't my team runs all 48 and spent a lot of time on I-70 and I-80 also in the northwest quit a bit this last winter and I would not want to run a SA truck in those conditions so I would not ask them to. I watched a fedex freight SA try a snake his rig up Raton pass in the snow while I locked in the rearends and walked right up it this last winter.

I have also wondered if you would wear out your drive tires twice as fast running a SA truck.

probably, but when you're only changing half as much, the CPM cost is the same.

I drove a single screw truck for a short time. If you don't like your kidneys, by all means, go get yourself one. The harshest ride you can imagine.