steingar
Taxi to Parking
Four-seater convertibles are for the old and the old at heart.
Car talk -- convertibles
- Thread starter Ken Ibold
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flyingcheesehead
Touchdown! Greaser!
Yeah, big rigs are for suckers. Heck, I was making more with my pick up doing drive away with a whole lot less hassle. I can't see why anyone would be an O/O anymore. Heck, the oilfield is hiring green day 0 deckhands at $150 a day, bed and food included, your cigarettes is all you buy and often you can get them no tax. After 120 days you're eligible to take a short test for your AB ticket (the company pays for it all) and when you pass, tou get $250 a day. You're lucky to clear that in a truck.Ours are getting $.915 plus fuel surcharge right now.
flyingcheesehead
Touchdown! Greaser!
1) So they can have a dog.
2) So they can have a truck decked out how they want it.
3) So they can pick and choose what loads they want to haul.
It sure as heck isn't for the money... I figure with bonuses and bennies I cost the company roughly 60 cents/mile. Once the fuel surcharge is taken into account, fuel is roughly an additional 20 cents/mile. A typical truck payment is $350/week which is about 10 cents/mile if you're running your tail off, which leaves a whopping penny and a half a mile for maintenance (yeah, THAT's gonna work...
)But, take a look at a truck stop. You can still buy a 400MHz Pentium II laptop for $500 at a truck stop. Truckers are easily separated from their money.
1) So they can have a dog.
2) So they can have a truck decked out how they want it.
3) So they can pick and choose what loads they want to haul.
It sure as heck isn't for the money... I figure with bonuses and bennies I cost the company roughly 60 cents/mile. Once the fuel surcharge is taken into account, fuel is roughly an additional 20 cents/mile. A typical truck payment is $350/week which is about 10 cents/mile if you're running your tail off, which leaves a whopping penny and a half a mile for maintenance (yeah, THAT's gonna work...
But, take a look at a truck stop. You can still buy a 400MHz Pentium II laptop for $500 at a truck stop. Truckers are easily separated from their money.
Yeah, I always loved shopping at the Flying J...