Starting Sept. 1, Texas speeds will be uniform, all day

O okay that sounds a lot better cause man if I run my truck over 70 I can't get above 5.5. Sorry if I misinterpreted your post.

 

I call that the world's slowest drag race.

 

As I have previously stated here many times in the past...I run the speed limit ar a little more wherever I am and my yearly average this last year was 6.8 MPG in a W900L pulling a flatbed and generally grossing more than 78,000.
I do not use the numbers out of the computer on the truck, I use the milles/gallons pumped method for more accuracy.
I pay VERY close attention to my numbers and I am quite happy with the ones I get.

True.

That's the way YOUR truck is set up...Some of us have our equipment spec'd for optimum mileage at somewhat higher running speeds.

 

That's the same way I calculate mine, unfortunately I do not have fuel receipts and mileage from the previous driver. Therefore I have to rely on the ecm for that info. And I think we already covered the how your truck is specd thing, But thanks anyway. believe me I can not wait to get a nice triple digit truck that I can be proud of, ironically enough I will get there faster by driving my present truck slower!

 

I80 in ohio is now 70 mph

 

If your doing 60MPH with and hes doing 75. 2 hours down the road and he will have goten thier 24 minutes before you. He probly put fuel on, thats why you see him just parking. As for making more money depends on how you look at it. He is driving 25 percent faster then you. And driving is making money, so he is making 25 percent more then you. Although his fuel costs are 17 percent higher then yours.

In the end these higher speeds will be better, even for you. Becouse with the speed at 80 MPH you wont have to break as much for the small downgrades. And you can use more of that kenetic energy to coast a bit further on your way back down to 60.

 

Just because you choose not to or are not able to, run the speed limit, doesn't mean it's wrong for other drivers to do so. If the speed limit is 65, 70 or 75 and a truck can run it, that is the driver's choice.

 

Everybody passes me about 3 times a day and I normally park before them.

 

I hear this B/S all the time from the " stuck in the mud" crowd.
You might park before them but you'll be parking about 150 miles behind them...
On a 3 day trip, You'll find yourself 450 miles behind me and I'll be unloaded and reloaded and headed somewhere else by the time you get to your destination sometime the day after I deliver.

At an average of 55 MPH you will move 605 miles in 11 hours and at 68 MPH I'll move about 748 miles in 11 hours...That's 143 miles difference!

These averages are based on 60 MPH and 75 MPH and what you can actually average at those speeds during the course of you day...These are conservative estimates based on my experience.

I stop a few times a day to pee and eat and fuel or whatever because I'm civilized enough to not be interested in peeing in a jug in my truck and it's nice to get out of the truck and stretch my legs for a minute every now and then.
I'm not gonna just sit there like a dunce staring out the widshield like a zombie to (maybe) save a couple of dollars in fuel.

When I do get where I'm going, I'll be more relaxed and freshly showered and shaved because I had time to do all of those things while you sat there plugging along while not getting much if any better fuel mileage than I did.

 

And to think a few years ago 80 mph would have been a major moving violation.