Your cruise setting

They usually give us plenty of time to get to where we got to get. I think the runs are based on 50mph average. Some are just in a hurry.

 

Another tip. Unless time dictates, I run at my comfortable 55-57 when empty... No need to rush, and meanwhile you are banking good MPG toward the entire fuel run on the tank.

 

They're actually based at 45mph I believe with the exception of FedEx loads based at 50mph.

 

45? lol No wonder Im always so early lol

 

FedEx is based at 45MPH.

 

Do a 3 or 4 stop store run out of that DC sometime & you'll get it... I always get one of those coming off hometime to get me back out... at every stop have them take an hour just to get all the crap cleared out from in front of the door just so they can get into the trailer.

IF I'm extremely lucky, by the time I finally get the last stop off the truck I've got just enough time left on my 14 to get over the GWB into Jersey that night to get headed toward my next pickup on the preplan rather than shutting down in CT.

 

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Originally Posted by rusty266
According to the computer, my truck is set at 62.88 and thats where I run it. I'm interested in maximizing the hours I have available which means concentrating on mph, not mpg.

No question, its a different game on the lease side. I'd probably be maxing out at about 56, I don't think you could offset the fuel savings by driving faster and possibly delivering more freight.

On the company side however, the fuel bonus doesn't nearly add up to as much money as a lease driver gets for driving slower. And when available hours are often an issue, I need to get as far down the road as possible with every hour. I simply can't afford to burn up 8 hours of driving time a week so I can get a $30 or $60 fuel bonus. I'd rather have the extra 480 miles at 36 cents a mile and still get the occasional fuel bonus too.

 

My reefer trainer started out driving at 57 but when the mpg changed to 8mpg he slowed down to 53 and we got in between 7.5-8.5 mpg but driving 53 is way to slow for me and it made some nights hard to stay awake
Now my flabed trainer does 64 in an '09 cascadia and we've got 7.4 over the last 2wks and he doesn't shift at a low rpm either

 

Well... lets do a little math. Fuel is running about $4 a gallon right now... so for a guy who does 130,000 miles a year, the difference between 7.4 mpg and 8.5 mpg is a savings of 2273 gallons per year or $9093 in your back pocket. Got your attention yet?

For you company guys that's an instant raise of 6.9 cpm.

 

Well you got mine ill see if you can get my current trainers attention.....doubt it suppling that he used to be an o/o for another company you'd think conserving fuel you be a big thing but he's company here now so......