Got a Chevy bolt

[Rich Z]

Originally Posted by CHASZ51

I don't think i will ever go to gas unless it stays below $2.50 a gal and i don't see it ever going down again.

Probably not for at least the next 4 years, anyway.

[CHASZ51]

Originally Posted by Rich Z

Probably not for at least the next 4 years, anyway.

I see it going past $5 a gal. Soon you can buy tons of V8's cheap again.

[Rich Z]

Maybe I should have held off on buying the Jeep Grand Cherokee Trailhawk and gotten the SRT version or even that Trackhawk model with 707 horsepower instead.

[CHASZ51]

When gas tops $5 a gal they may pay you to take one off the lot. I see all these gas hog V8 being dumped cheap once gas goes over $4 for reg and 5 for prem.

My C6 got much better gas vs my 2021 LT1 Camaro.

[85vette]

We're only home every 5 or 6 weeks now so it's not impacting our finances. But I used to burn about $70 a week in my dually. But we go through about $450-$600 a day in the new Peterbilt, depending on location and length of trip. That's about 70 cents a gallon more than it was in the summer.

[Rich Z]

Originally Posted by 85vette

We're only home every 5 or 6 weeks now so it's not impacting our finances. But I used to burn about $70 a week in my dually. But we go through about $450-$600 a day in the new Peterbilt, depending on location and length of trip. That's about 70 cents a gallon more than it was in the summer.

Ouch! Man you HAVE to be making good money to make those trips worthwhile for you. How many gallons does the fuel tank in your Peterbilt hold? And what sort of miles per gallon, roughly?

[85vette]

135 gallons each tank (270 total) and we get between 7 and 11 mpg depending on how much weight we're hauling and mountains, etc. We generally have very light loads. It's pretty crazy, we hauled 12 lbs from Canada to Dallas, Texas one time. Another time we hauled 5 pallets that only weighed about 500 lbs total weight but was valued at 4.5 million $$!

We are company drivers so we have no overhead. The company pays for everything except our meals and they often cover that on holidays. We average about 86 cents a mile with this company and on a west coast to east coast trip we can roll 1200 miles a day. We average 4500 miles a week but we have had weeks that we turned in 7000.

We haul temperature controlled pharmaceuticals exclusively and I'm pretty sure the company is getting upwards of five dollars a mile from these big pharma companies. Temps are critical and we have the specialized equipment to do it. These loads have monitoring equipment onboard and I have witnessed some of our competition deliver out of temp range. (FedEx for one) We are a hot commodity.

[Rich Z]

Sounds like you should be able to bank some decent money that way. And a great way to see the country, too.

[85vette]

Life is good!

[Rich Z]

Originally Posted by 85vette

Life is good!

Sounds like you are making the most of it. Keep on truckin'!