Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: WWhiskey on September 20, 2008, 04:00:10 PM
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Sold my truck, trailer and all my extra stuff that goes with it !!
bye bye pretty peterbilt!
(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg229/WWhiskey/5t.jpg)
o boy more time too spend here!
i hope not
well atleast i have corn harvest too look forward to
pic of my new ride for the next 6 weeks
(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg229/WWhiskey/combine.jpg)
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Hope the harvest goes well Whiskey!
Don't fall in front of that thing... could be ugly. ;)
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dam...i know someone who might've bought that. he drives for werner....and was thinking of getting his own rig.
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Nice combine..... Been looking at getting a new or newer one.
Have fun and watch the belts. :aok
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It's not the right time now, Cap.
Maybe in a few years when/if the price of diesel settles down or the market adjusts with higher fuel reimbursements.
Sorry, WWhiskey. I know how it must feel.
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I sold my Freightliner in 89 and never looked back.
On the upside, now you can go after tractor tippers!
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It's not the right time now, Cap.
Maybe in a few years when/if the price of diesel settles down or the market adjusts with higher fuel reimbursements.
Sorry, WWhiskey. I know how it must feel.
i know......i'm not a trucker, but i've been watching a few stations around my way, and seen how the price of deisel has gone up faster and more than gas.
him and i have talked about that, and that is the single thing that has kept him from trying for financing.
i think he's better off right now, not owning his own, too......
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i know......i'm not a trucker, but i've been watching a few stations around my way, and seen how the price of deisel has gone up faster and more than gas.
him and i have talked about that, and that is the single thing that has kept him from trying for financing.
i think he's better off right now, not owning his own, too......
My income was not affected much by diesel price, i make same $$ like last years , The fuel surcharge covers reasonable the fluctuations in diesel price. This week i'm payed 1.32$/miles combined with fuel surchage, and i'm running aprox 10000 miles/month,here around the Great Lakes mostly, that's 13200$, plus drops/pick ups/border another 700-800$, =aprox 14000$ gross. This week i payed average 3.90$/gal, my truck is running average 7.0-7.2MPG, soo i'm burning aprox.1400 gal/month x 3.9=5500$ for diesel : 14000$ gross minus -(5500$diesel, 150 HVtax,1800$ truck loan,100$ insurance, 500-600$ maintenance)= => aprox 5500-6000$ .
Better driving for company? No way, i wouldn't do this job as company driver for aprox 40 -42 cents/mile, after taxes are getting no more than 2700-3000$ for 10000 miles, from those after taxes $$ have to pay lots of expenses that i pay from gross income before taxes.
Working on incorporated, you can legal deduct lots of the shoopings,part of house/personal car, phone bills/internet and 50$/day travel expenses from gross money before taxes, and pay taxes for what's left.
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Tough times to be an owner op for sure. My company just lowered the fuel surecharge they are going to pay. $5-600 dollars every day for fuel before you get to the maint costs. 40-42 cents mile? Not many factory jobs pay $1000 a week.
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It's a heluva tuff way to make a living.. living in a tin box, hemorrhoids, mind numbing hours, trying not to get killed by pinheads in 4 wheelers, dealing with arrogant asinine state DOT's, local twits and federal bleedings., getting loads, getting paid, maintaining the paper, being an absentee father & husband.
And that's if you own your own rig. Workin for 'the company' is worse.