FreightDogs

Who wants to cohost a daily trucking podcast? Have to be genuine & don’t care if you’re banned for keeping it real is only requirement.

Oil dropping as it seems more credibility surrounding peace talks with more countries getting involved- WTI down $4.01 or 4.3%- for now, expecting limited upside to average gas prices for 1-2 days, then declines becoming widespread- this could shift based on talk progress!

The snowpack in the Western U.S. is all but gone. It is supposed to be at it's annual peak this week.

The Tesla Semi might be the most important product Tesla has ever built. This is a huge deal. Any company buying a diesel semi truck today is lighting money on fire: - The Tesla Semi costs 15 cents per mile to power - A diesel Class 8 costs 48 cents That’s a 70% reduction in energy costs per mile… Over the battery’s rated million-mile lifespan, that gap compounds into $330,000 in energy savings, PER TRUCK Buy ten of them and you’ve saved $3.3 million. Buy a hundred and you’ve restructured your entire P&L. And that’s just fuel. The Semi has no engine, no transmission, no oil changes. Regenerative braking means brake pads last dramatically longer. Tesla’s pilot fleet is running at 95% uptime, and when trucks do break down, half are back on the road within an hour. PepsiCo, DHL, Frito-Lay, ArcBest, and Saia are already running them. 13.5 million real-world miles logged across the fleet. One single truck has done 440,000 miles. At $290,000, the Long Range version is also cheaper than the industry average of $435,000 for a zero-emission Class 8. At some point this stops being an environmental discussion and becomes fiduciary negligence for anyone still signing diesel purchase orders.