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[Chamberpains]

Do you have Cummins Insite? If not, why not? This will allow you to do a pile more diagnostic work on your truck. And if you want a demandate done you'll need it. Contact (PM) Unilevers or Mommaburt after you've acquired an inline 5 or 6. This will not end your problems in trucking. It's not a bad decision but it will not stop the insanity you keep running yourself in to.

You guys are running your business the hard way and Rawze is pointing it out to you. I blatantly see the same in what little you posted. There is absolutely no reason you cant compete and blow your competition out of the water. And it doesn't involve "run run run". In fact that is the exact business model that will kill you and is killing the truck.

This is a simple fact, the harder and longer you push your equipment, the more shi#t the breaks, the more fuel it consumes the more soot it's forced to eat, the more stress on you and the more stress on the equipment.... more more more more more more equals more and more. This is an impossible business model to ever get in front of. Especially when you throw a freight rate of $1.25 in the mix.

Here's a simple answer. Try less. You obviously have read some things on this Site and know a bit about Rawze and hypermiling and his VERY profitable business model. He does more than most with less than you are making per mile (he's stated somewhere in the $.90-$1.00 /mile range)

Why are you trying to do the opposite of him and think you gonna do any better with roughly the same pay? Why wouldn't you try to mimic him and then try to become better at his game? He's not only leading the pack he also drawing the race track and leaving the competition in the dust. But with one huge difference. He's screaming at the top of his lungs and posting enormous billboards to show people how to keep up with and pass him.

Why dont you sit down and run a calculator to see what an extra MPG or maybe even 2 mpg's average a year would put in your pocket. Then why don't you add in 1 less oil change BECAUSE YOUR GETTING BETTER FUEL MILEAGE. And less fuel burnt which is less EGR and soot shoved back in your engine and less heat abuse to your turbo and engine and less strain on the driveline and less emissions repairs. And add in less repair costs, less stop and going and less smashing on the brakes and less hammering up hills and less stress and less time on the road and less and less and less.... all that less equals MORE time out of the truck and MORE time with family and MORE non truck events in your life and the big one is MORE MONEY in your pocket because you only spent a little bit of that $1.25 /mile to go the same distance. The old school way of hammering miles out is no longer a good business model. It's dead and so are the businesses that follow it.

You're also out there in the flat country. Since you have those craps ass 3.36 rears, why don't you stay out of the hills? Take loads that keep you out of the area's that your truck is not profitable in? Keep it out on flat country where you can keep MPG's up and stress down. Start figuring out routes that don't involve tolls or finding those little get around to avoid paying them. I know the Chicago area is ripe with them. Start giving up a couple minutes on your drive to save a couple dollars an hour. It really starts to add up.