MPG Harrasment

6Mpg is very good overall... 7Mpg is almost a impossible number to get with newer engines... You would have to never go faster then 55Mph and most of your loads would have to be light..

Don't worry about it.. tell them your doing the best you can and obviously 6 is all you can get.. Tell the person if they "personally" think they can do better then they are more then welcome to ride along with you for a month...
Most companies that harass drivers about fuel mileage pay the dispatcher a bonus to keep your mpg up..

So just tell them if they can do better with "YOUR" truck come on out and show you how for a month....

 

they want 7 mpg? what are you driving? a pick up truck?

 

Yea, who do you drive for as they sound like greedy morons to me. 6mpg for a truck is good! 7mpg is not an easy task...

 

My MPG fluctuates a lot, depending on where I actually fuel up. I guess some fuel is just better quality and the additive hurts the fuel economy. For this month I'm averaging around 6.8 (~14% idle, I believe). Last month it was very low, due to running the truck overnight a few times (~35% idle). Those idle numbers may look high, but it counts all kinds of stuff where I'm obviously not just sitting idling the truck. Backing in, looking for parking spots, etc.

 

Idling is a joke.. You can be sitting in a traffic, waiting at a traffic light, waiting for a train, waiting in line at a scale and all that crap will click that idle timer on.. I used to sit and watch the qual comm and see when it would start registering Idle time.. So, the number can be determined by so many differnt variables its not funny...

 

and this is a good example of some the things that show that you don't have to be an O/o to be effected by high fuel prices and the low rates that all of us are suffering with

 

LOL not sure what lever your talking about....

You don't even need to pull the nobs.. Just sitting there long enough with your foot on the break will click the idle timer
on..

I used to try several things to see if anything would work.. pull the red only, yellow only, chalk the wheels you name it i probaly tried it.. Nothing would keep that timer from clicking on.. It simply reads the the trucks computer and will start idle time after a preset time period of not moving...