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Cummins is a high rpm motor peak torque is 1800 downshift on hills at 1200 your lugging that engine at 900 which isnt good for the motor.

 

so downshifts 1100 1200 RPM and upshifts 1400 to 1500 RPMS

 

Finally got to drive my truck over to Palmer Kenworth to get the headache rack mounted. It was set at 63 mph, but spoke with the shop and they are turning it up tomorrow to 75 mph. which is just right to me. Got qual-com installed at Quality today. The night shift at Palmer is mounting rack now. Pick up 9am, take to Celadon shop, turn it up, load my equip. and head out.

 

Yes when im pulling a hill i actually downshift closer to 1300 and that puts me around 1600 which is in the cummins sweet spot.

 

Maybe with the CM871, I had the CM870 which is a low torque engine with a 1700RPM ECM cut out. The sweet spot for it was at 1450. Cruised at 70mph right there. And Hell, maybe the 2015-2016 motors are different, but Cummins has always been a low rpm motor with CAT being a high RPM. I'll have to talk with the old co workers and find out. I used to work on these things for a living, but they change a lot. I know I never once had a problem in mine downshifting at 1000 and up at 1400-1500. Actually got.7mpg better just by changing my shift patterns on hills. The less you shift, the better. Everyone is different, just throwing out my 2¢ on what I've found. Everyone needs to test their own trucks for their own preferred shifting points.

 

As per the techs at 3 different Cummins repair facilities I used to work with, depending on what factory HP your engine is rated for, peak torque happens at either 1000 or 1200 RPMS. Always reaching max RPMS while climbing hills is a 30% decrease in economy and the "sweet" spot for top gear should be around 1400-1500 while cruising. Yes, it may seem to pull better, but that's because you're over feeding fuel to the motor, but the efficiency dramatically decreases over 1550. Take it as a grain of salt, I mean no disrespect to anyone by posting this. I just know the insides and outs of these motors since the N14 came out until 2012 when I started trucking instead of turning wrenches after destroying my rotator cuff because of working on these things. What works for one, won't work for another.

 

You guys are right 1200-1400 according to cummins mine always pulled great around 1550-1650 it was a 2010 isx15 550 2050.

 

Got my approval 15 minutes ago! Got a few doctor's appointments I've got to make it to first and another MRI on Monday before I can go but I finally got the approval!

 

The price to play poker here is extremely high...with little return! I just got my first settlement 1310.69 per week in deductions, I'll break it down for u soon...if I don't kill myself....like I said my rates to the truck are near 1.05-to at most 1.27 a mile.......do what u want with the info...it's the real on them....and had me being late on two trips when on the Qualcomm appts showed no appt set.....or set for 00:01 00:02 and 00:03 other one was mead west vaco plants only open 7-5 there at 6:30am computer said 00:01 delivery time...so they do t even fix it or adjust it? Just deduct me? My check a whopping 468.00 plus what ever should have been added with the 10% deduction on my two highest paid trips.....I haven't been late in 5 years but yeah I'll show up to a closed store or plant at midnite just so I can do a macro.....

going to see where I can bring the truck after I have quality do there free 30 day free work.....and apply to those companies....and if u are a eagle booster...tell us how and what u are doing to survive this madness?.....coz honestly the brokers I tried to get rates from flat out won't negotiate there rates up...I have the emails on those chats too....wanna see? Flat out crappy rates even more so when u factor in Eagles cut and deadhead miles.....

 

Wow, that's total crap. Did you have a short week on that settlement? What region were you running in? I know getting used to booking your own loads and negotiating rates can take some time, even the wrong DM can do this to you. I have a few friends that are brokers here in Idaho, waiting to find out if they're on Eagle's list. I know their company headquarters is in the southeast somewhere.