Whats up with 62 mph?

If your SKILLS are ALL WORLD you should go buy that truck then instead of telling people who run successful business models how to be a success

Cause really .. You got no clue ..

 

Again .. MN

THIS THREAD IS ABOUT DRIVING 62 or slower speeds

Not your cost per mile jabs ...

We are speaking about fuel savings / or not .. By driving slower speeds

 

I'll throw in a few tidbits in the mix. I drive a company pro-star, goved @ 65mph. Most days I run it at 60-62 depending on loads, terrain, etc....all dry van freight. Last week on Thursday I left New Milford, PA, went to Syracuse, NY, made a relay there, drove it to North Reading, MA, drop/hook there and went 50 miles to New Hampshire( forget the town right now) drop/hook there swapping trailers in the same door, so that's really like two drp/hks) then ran 90 miles to Flynn's truck Stop in Shrewsbury to camp for the night. I'm on E-logs and when I got to Flynn's I had 58 minutes left available to drive, and time on my 14 as well. I ran 589 miles that day and got 8.9mpg on the trip meter.
If you buy your own fuel and don't run 60-62 or less, your cheating yourself out of THOUSANDS of dollars a year. Do what you want. Keep your left door closed and slow down a bit and you'll run plenty of miles and make more money. I think that's all anyone here is really saying. I'm just showing you real numbers from last week. Also, when I deadhead with an empty and run 60, I get 10.5-10.9mpg....when I make my company money instead of waste it, I make more money and don't get annoying messages on my qualcomm about wasting fuel...and I don't have to worry about idling too long either. It just makes sense, or cents if you want to have a pun. But again, drive your truck how like....just don't ##### about the cost of fuel and how you're not making any money.

 

Actually he does and has made a few valid points. The problem is that not all situations are the same and you don't want to except it.

The thing you "slow down" guys don't get, is that its been proven under certain situations that you actually lose money by the end of the week. You've also spent more time out on the road and behind the wheel. Time is money.

As for the 1.60 a mile guy....... Go broke quick so the rest of us can get the rate up! Please!!!!!

 

What's his valid point as it pertains to this thread
I could give a rats ???? If you run 90 - 100mph that's your biz

 

Sorry, you just broke the law.

54x11 (hours)= 594 miles, which leaves you 6 miles short of your destination and about 8 minutes away from your destination.

In two days of running 54 mph (average) you will be short about 12 miles and slightly over 15 minutes short of your two day destination. Now that is if you can actually average 54 mph. Just hope you don't get caught in ANY traffic etc.

But then to average 54 mph, you would have to be stuck on the superslab for 11 hours straight and not having to slow down for anything. Good luck with that, been doing this a long time and I know that even running 65 mph, you are going to run into many things that are going to drop your average to less then 54 mph even running the superslabs.

We can go on and on all day long but the fact is that companies save nothing by limiting trucks to less then the posted speedlimits. They are also causing the drivers to loose money due to cutting trucks back. Not to mention that the slower trucks are now creating a hazard on the highways.

Especially when you get a drag race going between a 62 mph truck and a 65 mph truck. Can you say rolling road block?????

 

Cowpie posted a response a few hours ago that was dead on. At slower speeds you can maintain that speed more easily. I have had my cruise set on 54.0 mph pretty much all day. Last 341.7 miles I have gotten 10.8 mpg and averaged 53.8 mph on my trip meter. I went right at 180 miles of that without ever coming off the cruise control or touching the brake. It would of been about 40 miles farther but the scale was open so I had to run through it.

I am on a load that delivered as soon as I got there but am preplanned not picking up til in the morning out of the same place. If I would of delivered it an hour or so earlier I still would of been picking up the same load in the morning. How did I not make more money by running slower? It don't matter what you say really because I will do it the same way every time. To the guys who think you don't get better fuel mileage running slower you are all just plain idiots.

 

You do know that you can run more than 11 hours in a day right? Even without doing that on paper logs you round to the nearest 15 minute increment. If you start at 8:53 then you log it as 9:00 and you just gained an extra 7 minutes. If you ended the duty period at 11:07 you log it as 11:00 and there is another 7 minutes. Just got those 12 miles done didn't I? And that is only one duty period of the day. Need me to teach you some logging lessons?

 

Never said you DON'T get better fuel mileage running slower. Because you do. Giving you your 7.3 mpg vs 6.3 mpg.

What is being said is that there is a cost off-set by lost productivity that wipes out that savings.

You drive 5 miles less each hour is 55 miles PER DAY at 62 MPH instead of 67 MPH for 11 hours.

That 55 miles per day is 275 miles per WEEK for 5 days per week.

That 275 miles per week is 14,300 miles annually.

That's 5 1/2 weeks of EXTRA driving revenue you are loosing every year.

Over a MONTH of lost revenue earned.

You now have to work 13 1/2 months to earn in 12 months something someone does at 67 mph.

Your fuel savings for the year is $12,200.

Your lost revenue from lost productivity is $15,700.

A total loss of $3,500 for the year. PLUS people are paying a $3,000 bonus for the added fuel savings? That adds another $3,000 expense to the business and brings the loss to $6,500.

Now, make that speed difference greater at 57 mph and you just extended that to 3 months difference.

Cost analysis just wiped out any fuel savings you just earned.

All for wanting to drive 62 MPH in ONE truck.

 

What's a fuel bonus?