Flow Below Added

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Siinman, Jun 13, 2022.

  1. Siinman

    Siinman Road Train Member

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    After gettin the trailer fixed I am for sure it was causing me some problems with MPG's. This last trip was a 6 drop load at 16K going to OK and South TX doing 67 mph. I got 9.00 mpgs for that load. Than got a load to OK that was light 7K load and got 9.4 MPG's doing 62 MPH. Ended up dead heading home after that at 9.7 MPG's doing 70 MPH.

    I had been thinking something was wrong and noticed I was in the low 8's most of the time on the good end. Normally I am in the high end of the 8's on average.
     
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  3. Midwest Trucker

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    They’re meant to breakaway before your door crumples. Definitely something was wrong with the dock. Normally all of them break at the same time and the door falls to the ground, so you kind of got lucky.
     
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  4. Siinman

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    It would had been just as easy to pick it up and put it in the trailer I think. Ha Ha At least I would had figured it out before I got out in the way of every truck trying to shut the door. That area did not have a lot of room to work on it while traffic was going out of Walmart. I have since went to another Walmart dock and checked it out. I did not see anything at that one that could have caused it. Someone must have left something in the door area is my guess and I hit it perfectly.
     
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