Fuel Milage Odometer

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  1. Jul 18, 2020 #1
    farmerjohn64

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    Hi,

    How do you determine how much fuel you have by using your odometer? It’s fairly obvious my fuel gauge is unreliable after it’s went to “Low fuel warning” and back up just enough not to trigger it, just sitting here idling until I get dispatched Monday to pick up a load so I can fuel up.

    Best regards, John
     
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  3. Jul 18, 2020 #2
    Wasted Thyme

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    You'd need to know roughly what MPG you're getting.

    Say you get 8 MPG. If you put 100 gallons in the tank. You've got 800 miles of fuel. But also figure in idle. So if you use 1.1 gallins per hour idling. A 10 hour break loses you 11 gallons.
     
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  4. Jul 18, 2020 #3
    uncleal13

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    Could use a stick and measure how deep the level is. Then do some math to compute how many gallons are left.
    Your fuel card only works once per load?
    Mine works 24-7-365, fill up today.
     
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  5. Jul 18, 2020 #4
    farmerjohn64

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    Thanks I figured that’s how it went, gonna write down my odometer reading next time I fuel and figure out what kind of mileage I get driving/idling
     
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  7. Jul 18, 2020 #5
    farmerjohn64

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    It asks for a “trip number” when you go to fuel and if you don’t have a current load/fuel solution from dispatcher (even gotta be the right place too) then you can’t get any fuel; I guess just for the hell of it I’m gonna go ask the maintenance boys about this and see what they say, they have a crappy motel that makes my truck sleeper berth look like a 5 star hotel, but I have a 12v cooler and didn’t want my food to go bad

    P.S. Your trip number is your load number, just in case you don’t have the same bs card I do lol
     
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    D.Tibbitt

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    I used to have a freightliner that fuel gauge barely worked. Id average everything at 5mpg and it worked most the time
     
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    Brandt

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    If you pick your fuel stops yourself just fuel more often or when you park for the weekend. In the winter and really cold like 18F or colder you want to keep fuel tanks more full. Because you can get water forming on inside the fuel tanks. Because the trucks return warm diesel from engine back into the fuel tanks to help keep the fuel warm. You have warm fuel in ice cold fuel tank walls.
     
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  10. Jul 18, 2020 #8
    farmerjohn64

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    Yeah @TripleSix mentioned that, was good advice; the company chooses everything for me, could be a Pilot right next to another and if you go to the wrong one you’re not gonna be able to fuel
     
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    D.Tibbitt

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    I hated that . I fuel wherever i #### well please
     
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    farmerjohn64

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    I called the fuel department after breakdown pointed me in that direction and I put 50 gallons in, all good now at least
     
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