I DRIVE FOR SWIFT ARE THERE ANY COMPANIES WITH SLOWER TRUCKS

I don't get your math man .5 mph faster is more like 5 minutes on each hour of driving.My usual crusing speed is 75 mph (that's what my truck is governed at) on Chicago -Texas lane and I am usually the fastest or one of the fastest trucks on the road .Last week I had to do 1500 miles with locked differential and could only go up to 60 mph.Took me loooong time to get back to Chicago.I could drive that slow though if I was paid 65-70 cpm.I agree that there is a huge difference in fuel consumption between 60 mph and 75 mph but as a company driver i get paid for miles i make not for economy.

 

Was this math done so long ago it was before math was invented? If I drive for ten hours a day at 55, I go 550 miles. If I drive 62 for that 10 hours, I go 620 miles. 65 is 650 miles, etc.

 

This has nothing to do with miles, it all has to to do with TIME. How much time your getting per hour. Yea, your getting 620 miles at 62 mph in a ten hour stretch but your not accounting for the TIME you left till the TIME you got there so go back and recalculate on your fingers and your toes.

 

I knew I was going to get a lot of flack for this, look at it this way, how many times has a truck blew right buy you and an hour later, there he is, sitting at a red light. Because he did not get that far in a short amount of time. Now if that red light was two or three hours ahead of you, you would have never caught up with him.

 

LOL, Not many times LOL.But very often I passed a truck,few miles later stopped at truck stop to get coffee or whatever ,went back on the road and passed the same truck again.There is a difference between 62-65 mph and 75mph.I don't know what you are governed at but try driving 75mph and you will see how quickly those trucks you passed dissapear in your mirrors!

 

Alright, alright, alright already, I did the math on a computer when I was a teenager it seemed right at the time...
enough already, drop it......

 

How much time do I get per hour?
Exactly 1 hour. Never more, never less.

Well, unless you want to calculate the fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a microsecond that I might pick up with a small delta V.

At a steady speed you will save 5 minutes of time for every 5 mph faster, each hour.
Period.
It isn't rocket science, and it doesn't fingers and toes.

 

OK, dropped.

But I would like to know how you did the math on a computer to get those results?

 

You wouldn't happen to be @Thull 's former trainer? Would you?

 

Man this topic is old.