Gas Milage

The guy running 70 is nowhere near 10 mpg.

 

Neither one is averaging 10 but that's what makes the numbers work.

 

Are you sure neither are getting 10? I'm getting 8.7 mpg at 63 and have no doubt at all I could hit 9-10 if I drop it down a few more MPH.

 

My truck will avg 5mpg at 70mph cruise speed and 6.5 at 55mph cruise speed.
My avg fuel cost has been $3.60/gal.
So figure fuel cost difference in cpm terms and multiply by avg miles ran annually.
I get:
$3.60/5=0.72 and $3.60/6.5=0.55 (Actually, I've been averaging 60mph cruise speed lately and my fuel cost has been running $0.60/mi. This proves true with the 0.1mpg fuel burn avg per 1 mph. So, $3.60/6.0=0.60).

Now, driving 100000 miles per year. 100000*(.72-.55)=$17000

As far as wear and tear saved. It's hard to estimate with one truck by itself. I would guess it saves around 20% in maibtenance costs based on how much less the truck is working. Just a guestimant there. But the fuel savings is worth it.

The reason I don't avg 55mph but rather 60mph is simply because sometimes I need to hurry and meet an appt and also because my rpms are too low for top gear at 55. I use the scangauge to see my rpms in digital readout. Keeping it over 1200rpm which is bottom of peak torque band. If hilly and heavy I run 53 at 1350rpms in 9low and when I hit the crest of the hill shift to 9high and let her coast.

 

So 0.72 times 175k is 126000.
0.55 times 137500 is 75625.

That 75k in extra revenue is now down to less than 25. And that's with an actual average speed 15 higher for exactly 11 hours each day.

 

Tracking these numbers on the fuelgauges website makes things easy and best of all accurate. It's not like most guys who when you ask what they avg. " Well, let me think here...I been gettin round 7, maye 9 mpg."

Have you ever bumped into that guy? Let me tell you a secret. That guy does NOT know his numbers. He is not a business or logic minded individual. And, he probably takes home less money than a Werner company driver every year as a result of his ineptness! Those were the kids that sat in the back of the classroom and slept or played and always copied their homework off of the smart kids while riding the bus to school. Inept!

 

He runs paper logs, so he can have a "perfect" day like that.

 

Well I'm empty now. Gotta go back to work with my slow truck that can't make the big bucks.
330 miles total, 17% deadhead, $1400gross, $682net, 6.75hrs driving, 3hrs loading/unloading, 10 hrs total time working divided into net cleared gives $68.20/hr.
Wish I could drive 75 and get more miles so I could make money!

 

Lmao...U JUST SAID A MOUTHFUL BROTHER....MY POINT EXACTLY...I DONT NO WHERE PEOPLE GET THIS IDEA THAT U HAVE TO RUN HARD,HARD,HARD,FAST,FAST,FAST,FAST ALL THE TIME JUST TO MAKE A DEADLINE..n make DECENT $$$$$$ MONEY$$$$$$..Ooops my bad MUST BE A MAJOR CARRIER DRIVER Ex.SWIFT,JB,-- CRYING OR A USED TO BE OP WHO DIDNT MANAGE THERE MONEY AND EQUIPMENT PROPERLY THEN HERE COME DA BLAME AGAIN...I HEARD IT ALL TIME N TIME AGAIN.....EVERYBODY ISNT CUT OUT TO B A OP/AND EVERY BODY ISNT CUT OUT TO B JUST A STEERING WHEEL HOLDER EITHER...ONLY WAY I WOULD B CONCERNED ABOUT FUEL IS BECAUSE IM A OP/IF I WAS COMPANY DRIVER I COUld CARELESS
About FUEL CONSUMPTION...ALL DA DANM MONEY IM BRINGIN THEM N...BUT HEY IM JUST BEING HONEST!

 

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.....U GOT ME ROLLING OVER HERE LMAO.....KEEP IT GOING BROTHER....HA HA H ha haaaa !