Kw w900l

we had a whole fleet of C15's. 6nz's and acerts. it's the way they are driven. i could take a guy out of a truck getting 4.25 and put a different driver in it and get an instant 6.5. i could swap drivers in a 6.5 truck and it would instantly get 5. and i could show the data from the computer to the guy that cant get mileage and it may as well been in latin,cuz it was the trucks fault.

the guys that couldn't get mileage were also the ones that wanted steer tires all around,and different oils in the diffs and trans,and gadgets on the fuel line,cuz they heard on the XM some ######## insist these were magics that got super mileage. and then when we didn't do all that crap,it was our fault they couldn't get decent mileage.

we had a guy geting way over 7,but he drove so slow an easy it really wasn't practical,but it was interesting watching his numbers.

 

You didn't know it's never the drivers fault I've always been able to get 6 consistently out of a cat but never ran a bridge motor

 

That's a good deal. If you don't buy it, I will.

 

My old man got about 4.25 - 4.5 MPG with his MBN. Course he was running 4.33's and it was a tridrive.

 

lol! i could write a book...

we had a guy hit a mattress on I94 in wisconsin. he figured he'd stop and check it out at the next exit or so. the truck went up in flames. what else did we expect him to do? stop right there and look under the truck?

altho i did kinda chuckle to myself thinking of the other motorists,frantically trying to tell this clown there was a flaming ball under his truck,to no avail.

 

It's always the same...

Non-owners vs. Owners mentality

 

You won't do it with a stock bridge motor guaranteed. I don't care who it is or how light their foot is. Doesnt matter how you drive an MBN in stock form they just suck fuel period. I know it seems crazy and I know you can put 2 different drivers in the same truck and get wildly different mpg's but I'm telling you I have never met anyone who got better than low 5's with a stock MBN.

 

true. another little truism i found amusing was the stuff guys would throw a fit over when they drove for us. like going to chicago at all,. or not just deadheading them home 300 miles when they were empty at 4pm,and out of hours,rather than booking a load the next morning coming back. or having to leave sunday,like its really a 9-5/mon-friday job. so they'd quit and get their own truck,and suddenly they're doing the exact thing they used to jump up and down about.

these incidentally were typically the same guys that couldn't get mileage. at least with our trucks. im sure it improved in their own,lol.

 

i don't know if we had mbn motors. we went to cat after we couldn't get detroits in a pete anymore. '03 was our first year for cat as i recall.

 

You had MBN's if you had 03's. There were a few leftover 6NZ trucks from 2003 but most are MBN. And a few 2004 models had leftover MBN's with the rest being newer Acert. CAT paid a fine to the EPA for every MBN that went into a road tractor off the assembly line.