Overall hood cost - Aerodynamics

I passed a Pete just like the first picture yesterday.

 

Agreed. But the original post never mentioned what type of work. So the original question was broad and open ended, and it’s yet to be said what he does.

This happens any time there’s talk about fuel. Yeah but it won’t work for this. Yeah but it won’t work for that. And a lot of stuff won’t work for a lot if things but to say there’s no room for improvement is mostly not true.

 

Bottom truck is one I had when it was new. Cat glider. I run it for 18 months before I went to Hawaii. It was at 5.4 when I got out of it. A different spec would’ve done better. Running a 15spd and having to drop full gears didn’t do it any favors.

When I pulled a curtain I was happy to see 5. Lol.

 

Absolutely. And something else to take into account, the same equipment doing the “same” job doesn’t necessarily do the exact same task work day after day. IE a dump truck, running hyper local under 35 miles an hour at up to 80,000 pounds versus a dump truck running mostly interstate highway speed at the same weight
A lot of fleet spec, is essentially just the cheapest version of the most versatile version for the general type of work.
Any one particular niche can have something that’s more or less effective and efficient, and they’re gonna be subtleties even deeper than the obvious.


Geography, related topography, and industry has a broad impact on spec and what is considered an efficiency and what is an inefficiency.

There’s a lot of different ways to run a business, and a lot of different ways to look at numbers. I’m not gonna say there’s right or wrong, there’s a lot that are leaving room for improvement for sure.

 

So, did the T800 get 1.5 mpg better than the Pete?

 

I never drove a Pete.

The 1.5 I was talking about in the thread is my friend with the Cascadia hauling cattle versus hoods hauling cattle.

 

A T8 isn’t any more fuel efficient than a W9.

 

Especially those ones. Lol. Stacks. Breathers. Cat. 15 spd. Big tires. 3.90’s. But man they were set up nice for what they were doing.

 

I thought it was you who told me that this was Cliff Reed himself that I snapped a picture of a few years ago. If I’d known it was him, I would have tried to strike a conversation with him. I just assumed it was one of his senior drivers.

 

Not me, probably @Long FLD .