Running with JCT

Pretty good at 70mph what's top rpm at 68mph

 

So you got your ride back? How is it looking? Did they do a good job? Paint match and stuff?

 

They did a great job.
Rpms on the beast are at 1450 when running 68 I focus on load and turbo to maximize fuel.

 

I was just wandering what the rpms are to shift I'm used to 1100_1350

 

Same range works well.

 

I just got off work and our parking lot is next to the staging area for inbound loads and a jct truck stuck out like a sore thumb.. Y'all keep them trucks clean.. I've never seen a dirty jct truck..

 

Well I didn't break my truck and the thermometer came out the box and was jacked up. LOL

But here goes. I finally received my load from Tyson last night at midnight. I drove over to the pilot and was getting scaled out. The lady could not hear me so I shut the tractor off to talk to her. Well that was a bad idea as I was the a hole stuck on the scale with a broke down 2014 Evolution. LOL I sent a breakdown macro to JCT and within 3 minutes got a response. Within 45 minutes I had a road guru show up to fix big mama. Seems he has worked on a few of them and knew what it was when he got there. ( he could have just told me over the phone) The clutch switch is out of adjustment on this and if you press in the clutch it will not engage it to start the tractor. He fooled around with it then told me to push the pedal down, with the pedal all the way down he told me to push twice as hard. LOL waalaa big mama was up and at it again. 262.00 later which I hope JCT takes care of since I need to bring it in to get it adjusted and it is still under warranty. ( wishful thinking but who knows) But hey if this was my old company I would have had to push my truck off the scales and wait til the morning for them to call me back. LOL

Well I started off on my run to Phoenix at around 2am and drove til about 330-4. I hate driving at night and I was extremely tired so I pulled it over. Found the last park at a rest stop and it was right beside another JCT guy so he must have been saving it for me. Thankfully Bryant reminded me about doing a 8-2 split so I did that. woke up at 12 and drove until tonight. Chewed up 706 miles starting at 200ft above sea level to 4380ft running 66-67 with a 76000lb truck in 10hr 56 minutes. LOL That's around a 64mph average and my fuel mileage at the end of the day is sitting at 7.2mpg NOT TOO SHABBY.

I believe someone asked how much a truck weighing 75000lbs would do on fuel economy, so there ya go. Also remember my truck is still not broken in so it can only get better from here.

All in all I think I really like it here even thou the hiccups with the orientation and stuff and this load. Also I hope Sharpp has unlimited minutes cause I blow him up LOL