Another MPG thread

Down hill is usually around 90mpg @75+ for us.

Flatland with 30,000# and no wind gets us 6.8 to 7.2 @ 70mph.
That's F-Liner cascadia with a 455 Detroit with 3.43's and 10 speed pulling 53' Reefer

 

1999 Pete 379 with cat 3406e 475 hp. 10 speed 390 rears and 24.5 tall rubber. I run 59-63mph pulling mostly oversize and 75000 to 80000 lbs most of the time. Less than 10% dh. 6.26 lifetime 6.5 90 day, 6.76 60 day and 6.66 30 day. Keep the door shut and ride. I track every tank. You can check it out on fuel gauges under same name.

 

Oh I'm sorry, English must be my second language being from England and all....I thought it said to post up the details of your load, weight, trailer, and so on. Must have missed the part about "No oversize/Overweight loads" My bad....
And for the record, what I do is far from heavy haul, those days are long gone for me.
Also I did not realize that the flatbed forum was for legal size stuff neither, again I must have missed it.
Comparing my stuff that was posted, as well as every other F/B'er here, to a freight hauler that hauls light legal stuff on a totally different trailer platform is apples to oranges, get over it.
And I still stick to the FACT that 99.9% of company sponsored flease deals are total crap. Yes I have spoke to the guys that are actually honest and have a brain, and no way would I run for those kind of PENNIES. It's a scam, and the sooner folks realize that, the better off the industry will be without the wannabe owner operators that rent trucks.
Martin

 

I would never lease, some of those l/o's hardly make more than a company driver, I would just drive company for awhile and save up a decent down to get a used truck from a dealer, payments are much cheaper and more profit to be made.

 

maybe the O/O section is the best place for them then, to figure that out. I see your point but it just gets goofy if you try to subdivide too much. you'll wind up with 25,000 forum members and 25,000 subsections. Plus it's fun to needle Englishmen ! so what mpg are you getting again ?

One positive thing I can say about mega-carrier lease purchases, if you can survive it and actually wind up owning the truck, you'll probably do well from then on. There was one guy at the last company I worked for who had successfully purchased his truck from Schneider and it was still in great shape, he really took care of it. Man, if he survived that 98/mile bs, you can imagine how well he was doing on 2.50/mile with his truck paid for !

 

Following winds.

 

6.8 - 7.2 @ 68-70mph is what my Columbia/DD60 14L, 3:36 gears, 9spd (13spd mod soon) turns in, more or less. I run my tractor tires at 105, add a quart of Lucas injector cleaner every other fillup, and drive soft. If I get a long pull I'll run my tandems tires up to 110psi. I reached 8.2mpg for 1,000 miles with a 6,000lb load, following wind, flat run. Once. But even running full loads 75-80K GVW, I'll still turn in around 6.7 or so. Depending on all the other factors, hills, traffic, wind, red lights, construction projects, weather....so many variables. I think fuel is another variable. Some is better, some is not better. What about biofuel? I think my mileage drops when I run a biofuel mix. Which is why at least one month averaging is intelligent, 3 months is better.

 

So its stuck at 7 mpg.
After running manual math it all came down to 6.7mpg.
Not bad hauling at 62 mpg with a '07 Cat

 

Chocolate fireguard?

 

Imagine a fireguard, in front of a nice hot fire in your living room, made of chocolate... useless....

Martin