Fuel Mileage Bonus Round

[Rawze]

For those who have those square nose antique road show trucks, they will find no sympathy on here if they are complaining they have crappy fuel mileage.

I will never be a fan of those square nose fuel pigs. Personally, I think the EPA should outright ban them from the roads except under rare exception.


All someone is doing is making these guys richer...


This opinion is mostly because I can't stand big-oil taking all of our profits ... They are already rich. They don't need my money so they can make more man-made islands and fund their war-machines needlessly. This is also why I am a hyper-miler too I suppose.

Fuel is our #1 expense by a long shot and I see no way that anyone can justify purposefully raising that cost. This especially if they are new to trucking. Most buy those type of trucks simply because their friends have those things and then wonder why they go out of business with only 5 or 6 mpg and all their mega-carrier competitors are getting 7+ and 8+ averages these days, cutting the throats of those who like to go fast and waste extra fuel on big chrome stacks and front ends. There is no justifying it any more in our washed out industry of high competitiveness. No amount of re-sale value is going to make up for 5 or 6 years of running one of those trucks and blowing an extra $30k out the stacks while hauling regular flat-bed, reefer, or dry-van (I.E. low-rent) freight.

I know there are those who disagree, and i have nothing against that... I just do not like it being promoted, and will always talk against it here on the forum publicly. this is so that those people who are new to trucking will get an understanding that stepping into owning one of those type of trucks nowadays could very well be the difference in making an extra profit of $25-$40k per year, or going broke in a couple years time because they just can't seem to get ahead.