Very odd MPG from one of my drivers

It won't tell you what you need to know in this situation.

 

You don't know what you need to know in this situation.

Knowing speed/distance/route/time starting/time stopping etc will rule out a lot of different possibilities. You'll be able to verify logs, fueling locations, speed, route, etc. It's a good cheap place to start. Pulling the guy into your office and grilling him and basically suggesting he's on drugs is not going to help your business. Firing a guy for an unknown issue when he's doing everything else right also isn't great. I think the OP is better off with a steady hand at the tiller and developing some basic background on what's going on before he digs into this guy. I think the ECM dumps are also a good idea and combined with GPS data will tell you A LOT.

 

2 thoughts come to mind.

Selling fuel.

or

He's not on cruise control ( I know people who wont use it ) and he has a heavy foot. Need a tender foot with a C15.

Either send him on his way or govern the truck.

Hurst

 

You'd should easily be able to rule that out just by looking at the receipts that get turned in with the trip envelope.

 

More like New York City cab driver went and got his CDL.

 

OMG please don't tell me you're a fleet owner?

You guys know that there are a group of us that talk about these driver's issues and hash out these problems with first hand knowledge of how to do things without causing a stink.

 

Any update on this? You confront him

 

Inquiring minds want to know.

 

You cause me to go whoa... that is a thirsty truck.

Then I think is that SOB selling fuel to pickup trucks by siphon?

 

Uummm...
You said he's an experienced driver; is he an experienced 13 speed driver??? I've known plenty of drivers that forgot to put the transmission into high split on the last gear, and they're driving with a couple extra RPMs most of their way.
Just another thought.