L/Op fuel summary

Great question, I just checked my mpg for Feb's IFTA and its showing 5.8 mpg, thats so wrong, I am wondering if calling Rapid Response would help adjust it up. Yep! Me too, not a month goes by where I don't have to pay into IFTA.

P.S. about the other thread about tracking mileage. Your drive tires can account for a variance in your trucks mileage reading. 1 size larger tire can be a 3% difference. Meaning if your going 55 according to speedometer, in reality your doing around 58. Or losing an inch of rubber from your drives can create the reverse situation to occur. Meaning your speedometer may say your doing 55, but in reality your not, only about 52 - 53.

Actually it occurs to me, that the only real accurate mileage gauge we got is the GPS in the Qualcomm. So I guess try filling your tanks as one guy suggested, run your truck for a given mileage from the GPS, fill them up again, and then do the math and see what it is telling you.

Getting back to the original question, my weekly fuel summary is always off with my idle time. Its way higher than I think it should be. So I don't know or give that msg much thought.

Heyy, Good luck!

 

And there is the old fashioned way, fill your truck at mile marker 1, run it until or say the 300, fill it again, then do the math and see what it says.

 

I''ll explain tonight when I'm on my computer and not my phone.

 

OK ... the IFTA mileage and your actual fuel mileage are calculated 2 different ways ... Well, duh Mystic they're different.

Actual fuel mileage, is actual fuel used over actual miles driven ... IFTA is all fuel purchased in a calendar month over miles driven in a calendar month. If you are playing the fuel early in the week game this can hurt you at IFTA time ... Take March 31st was on Sunday, fill the tanks and get you to the end of the week ... but all that fuel is going to count against the March miles even though you burned it in April.

Also IFTA is calculated off of your GPS to GPS dispatched route miles each day ... all the little side trips that get calculated into your fuel mileage off the odometer are not included when calculating your IFTA rate.

 

MysticHZ,

Hi, very nice, I had thought the same thing, that even when our pay cycle ends before the month is over, and we fuel, that fuel is charged on the next pay cycle of the new beginning month. But yeah, its a hit against that months IFTA, I thought so, thanks for your answer.