Truck Driving Jobs

okie · #1 11-13-2007, 07:15 AM

I have been passed by Hunt, Swift and Schneider trucks the past couple weeks. So I guess that makes Crete last of the 65 mph ers. I can still pass Roadways and ABF.

zipy46 · #2 11-13-2007, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by okie

I have been passed by Hunt, Swift and Schneider trucks the past couple weeks. So I guess that makes Crete last of the 65 mph ers. I can still pass Roadways and ABF.

Jim Palmer is set at 65 max.

Some companies run at 68 but turn the trucks speed down if
the driver idles the engine to much in the summer.

This may explain the different speeds of the same companies trucks.
Sometimes I pass a Swift and somedays they fly by me.

Twilight Flyer · #3 11-13-2007, 01:16 PM

Swift is 65. They have lease-purchasers that are driving company-looking trucks that are governed at 72, I believe.

okie · #4 11-13-2007, 01:36 PM

I am just starting to realize all the control they have over these trucks.

OKtrucker · #5 11-13-2007, 02:39 PM

Hey, it is their truck, if you have a need for speed buy your own and run it anyway you want...just my HO!

okie · #6 11-13-2007, 03:22 PM

I do just fine running on the company dime. You just dont want to be the slowest on the road ya know.

Uturn2001 · #7 11-13-2007, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by okie

I do just fine running on the company dime. You just dont want to be the slowest on the road ya know.

Why?

Many of these companies that govern their trucks at 62-65 mph are among the higher paying companies.

I would much rather put along at 62 mph making 35 cpm than be able to do 75 and only get paid 24 cpm.

If you really pay attention many times you will see the same fast truck pass you several times in one day.

okie · #8 11-13-2007, 05:19 PM

I am fine @ 35 cpm going 65 mph, you are right. I guess it is just knowing that the cb jokes will be about Crete soon, as we quickly become slowest. But that was my original point, are there any 62-65 companies left? We are at 65 and those companies that were 62-64 are passing us and not just passing us but blowing by

#9 11-13-2007, 05:50 PM

Okie do not worry about it with fuel going up even more sooner or later those other companies will be cutting them back again over the Qcom it can be done. At my last company we were given a program over the sat system that if we met certain goals we got 68 and my truck normally sat there called no idle time and high MPG. Sooner or later the cost of fuel will catch up to those fleets and they will get slowed down again.

robertt · #10 11-13-2007, 06:27 PM

Sorry to jump in folks. Hey Okie, is Penny still at B-ville?