Higher Fuel Prices = Slower and Slower?

This is why I'll never be an o/o. It's too much to worry about. My company says I can drive 70, so I drive 70. 'Nuff said.

 

Yeah it is amazing when I am stuck doing 64 and a fast truck is passing me doing 70 uphill and totally disappears from my view within five minutes even though I can see all they way down the road.

 

Drive at 30mph and stick your hand out the window, see how much pressure's pushing your hand back? Now do it again at say 50mph and then again at 65 mph. Now imagine all that air that's in front of your truck holding it back from rolling easly down the road, and that dosn't even consider the air that tries to slip in between cab and trl and under the trl.

 

Go back and find out who really did the speed limit.

 

Your right in a way, useing that 700 xtra miles aweek thats 35000 a year (50weeks) so add in the cost of 2 oil/filter changes also subtract the loss of tire tread ( no idea) and another extre maintance. 35000mi @ 6.0mpg is 5833 gals @ $4.30 per gal. is $25083.33 so with the oil your up to about $25563.33 THATS $.71 PER MILE! How much is your FSC?

 

This is actually where most make up their fuel mileage. Most don't realize it they just want to preach go slow instead of use your head.

All trucks are different and whoever told you this is wrong and not very bright!

Seems not many think of this, maybe its cause they don't make enough to where it won't average out?

My truck gets between 5-5.5mpg no matter if I'm running 55 or 70. Of course it doesn't help that I haul heavy, run 2 lane roads and deal with traffic lights on my route. Now at one time I used to get over 6.5mpg, but things have been changed on the truck. If I end up keeping it I will put the correct cam back in the motor and see if my fuel mileage comes back up.

Oh and when it was getting over 6.5mpg, actually it was 6.8 on average, it was running I-71 in ohio down into KY running 5 mph over the posted speed limit, grossing 80k and not taking it easy on it. At one time the truck when running 70mph was runnign at 1800rpm's still getting 6.8mpg. I then changed the trans to lower rpm's down to 1500 when running 70mph and fuel mileage never changed. Slowing down didn't help either...

Kinda messes up some of you guy's theory doesn't it...? Oh it gets better......... Its a mechanical Cat engine with the fuel screws turned out....

 

Yeah perhaps the truth is the government wants us to drive slower so we will buy less fuel since it takes us longer to get to a new destination. That way Iraq can pay the politicians the difference under the table for leaving more fuel for other countries the politicians invested their money in.

 

The safest situation on the highway is for all traffic to be traveling at the same rate of speed. If you are driving 55 mph trying to save fuel on a 70 mph road, you are creating a serious safety hazard on the road.

Lower speed limits don't always promote safety, either. When Montana had no daytime speed limit, it's highways were the safest in the state's history. Then the feds forced them to implement a speed limit and fatal wrecks doubled. (link)

 

This needs to be taken with a large grain of salt. The data used was a little cherry picked, not that I'm against picking cherries.

more information on Montana crashes.

http://www.mdt.mt.gov/publications/docs/brochures/safety/probid.pdf