need a well experienced driver to answer this

"10 MPH is 110 miles in an 11 hour day. He said with accents wild as he shook his wooden leg!" So your saying in 100 days it's 1000, $1000 days $10,000. Money is mone time is money and MPH is money.

Humans are in a time machine running 60 minutes per hour.

 

Our 86 models had not computer, mpg was figured monthly, by hub. And getting a regular run there early , and return load is after your break at a set time. How would you turn more miles? Our set up was drop at customer bobtail to the bunk house , hand keys to driver coming out. Your truck to drive back will be here in 8 1/2 hours. You are looking at the wrong scale. You like your Pete , talk to Bruce at Pittsburgh power about his free 2013's . You would be amazed . He will show you how a 150 k truck will cost you nothing. His set up will save more on the fuel bill than the payment. And no egr,PDF ,or def.

 

I still don't buy it. Sorry. There are too many other factors that go into your time than how far to the right your speedometer needle is. Traffic, weather, how long it takes you to load, unload, how often you have to stop to eat/fuel/bathroom, waiting in line at weigh stations sometimes, repairs/maintenance, so are you telling me when you're in line at Subway, you're looking at your watch and thinking to yourself "OMG it's costing me $1/min to stand in this line"

Oh and here is another factor. You call on a load 1000 miles, they're firm on $2000. You call on a 700 mile load, they're firm on $1,400.
Same rate. The difference is on the first run, you drive 300 more miles the next day to get unloaded by noon. You spend 2 hours looking for your next load. Meanwhile, your logbook clock is ticking.
The second load, you get to your customer in the morning, unload first thing, you look for a load and your clock hasn't started yet. And you will get your next load and fill up your whole day making money. The factor to consider though is that you can never guarantee that you're going to get such and such rate going x miles than y miles.

110 miles a day, well take those other factors and cut that in half, and that's 55. Ok so you can make it an hour further down the road at best. So you get to your customer at 9pm instead of 8pm and you would still have to wait until morning to get unloaded anyways.

The best things I think you can do to manage your time well is to stay rolling, don't screw around at the truckstops, don't fuel at Texarkana because it's always a clustermuck, and get to your customer early to be the first one in and out, and get a good jump on your next load.

So what I'm saying is that if you feel you have to go faster to free up more time, there are other factors to consider that ARE under your control that will help you be more efficient with time, without using more fuel. And then all the other factors that ARE'NT under your control, will be less painful.

 

I have good luck diving a volvo 670, get 7.7 mph running 70 with light loads and get, about 6.7mph running 68 with heavy loads or in wind. if i go 63 i see around 8 or 9 mph.

 

What engine?

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At that time the speed limit was 55. Light loads, flat ground , L10 s set at 270 up , and several mechanical tricks . Hard to see why it's so hard for some to accept what is possible. We got eaton to allow us to run 50 weight oil in the transmissions, less drag. Could not get them to let us use it in the axles . But you are seeing 9 mpg if conditions are right. We had near perfect conditions built in, so we went for it. It paid off well. Would those trucks we had then fit for otr ? No . Built just for that job.
Search out cowpie on here , his truck is a good exp of some of the same ideas applied to a otr truck.

 

Be carful , talk like that and people say you are full of it. Thanks for the back up. If specked right high mpg numbers are in reach.

 

its also how you drive and how much you use the cruse controll. arowdynamics of the truck also help alot.

 

Flats are hard to get both off road ability and fuel mileage . Thinking in the 450 hp (dd15 has done well) 18 speed will help off road ability and 3.42 rear. With full lockers. On the dry box today I would be looking at volvo's new set up . 500 hp 12 speed double over I shift with a 2.64 rear gear. Puts 65 at about 1150 on the tack. Just showing how big a change in mind set between the two.
Looking at the used market I would avoid any make engine from 08 to 11 , when def came in . 04 to 07 have less issues . But pre04 (per egr ) were best, even compared to today ( mileage and reliability ) . Hard to find one from that era that are low mileage.
All that said maverick has ran flats with a 10 speed ( non overdrive) with a 2.64 rear gear. Seems that start ability would be a issue off road?