Running with JCT

mark staite ? on youtube an on his blog maxiumizing alliance use'es the scan gage an said its worth the money just an fyi...truck on!

 

The ScanGaugeD (http://www.scangauge.com/) is my ace in the hole for fuel mileage. My truck doesn't have a turbo boost gauge or instant mpg gauge. The ScanGauge has that and more. The trip MPG will reset after a few minutes with the key off. I leave the key on "ACC" when I'm wanting to know my daily mpgs. There's also an option (I tried it and no longer use it) to use it to track your gallons burned. You set it up by setting your fuel tank size. I used 200 gals because that's the most I want to burn off. Each fill up, you input the gallons bought. The ScanGauge will track each gallon burned and let you see the gallons remaining.

My Qualcomm gets reset every Tuesday afternoon, so it keeps a weekly total of fuel burned. The ScanGauge plugs into the truck's diagnostic computer port (or whatever it's called!), on my Cascadia it's down by the clutch, and reads all of the parameters that the engine reports. It also reads engine codes. I believe that I gained about 2/10ths mpg. I encourage you to read about it at the ScanGauge website, or at Kevin Rutherford's site: http://mygauges.com/store.

I use 'fuelog' on my Android. It's the same idea, I guess, but you HAVE to do the input, lol.

 

The scan gauge reads directly from the ECM, and like Sharpp said, it will display gauges that the truck does not have, as long as the truck DOES have the sensors installed. For example, if your truck has a sensors for pyrometer and turbo boost, but doesn't have gauges to display the readings, the scan gauge can display them one you set it up to do so. Definitely worth the $197. Even though the truck's ECM isn't completely accurate and therefore the scan gauge wouldn't be completely accurate...it won't matter. As long as the readings are accurate to themselves, it'll be fine. The biggest benefit is that the scan gauge can give you the instant feedback you'll need to adjust your driving habits "on the fly" when you notice your driving conditions (hills, wind, roads, etc.) change. I just received my scan gauge and can't wait to set it up. I'm going to wait until after I have my truck serviced though.

 

Hey Sharpp... I'm delivering a produce load tomorrow morning in Harrisonville, MO. Let me tell you what a nightmare this load has been though. I was to pick it up on 08/28 @ 15:00 at WCC in Colton, CA. The shipper got me out around 20:00 and I headed to the nearest cat scale, which is 17 miles away at the Ontario T/A. I scaled out 2600 lbs. over on my tandems and I was already set for bridge, so no room for adjustment. I returned to the shipper to have the load reworked, then left to scale out again. The reworked load only scaled 840 lbs. lighter on the tandems, but my 14 hrs. was almost up,m so I stayed the night at the T/A. I returned to the shipper the following morning to have the load reworked again. I left to scale out and found the weight to be almost back where it was the first time. Back to the shipper once more. When I got a door, I went to open the trailer, but the last two pallets were falling apart. So I lad the yard goat driver hold the door while I put my back against the pallet on the right and pushed it up as far as I could. He then went to get a couple more guys to push the top as I continued to push the bottom and middle. We got it straight enough to put my load lock back up, then I had them go get me an empty pallet so I could hand stack the top half of the left pallet, which had broken in half and fallen down against the door. When all of this was done, I got it backed into the dock. They told me I'd have to restack the two pallets, so I negotiated for them to provide three guys to help, and it got done quickly. When I left and scaled out, it had been more than 24 hrs. since my original 1st weigh, so I had to pay for another 1st weigh...and the load was still 640 lbs. over on the tandems. I messaged dispatch and stated back to the shipper. I had to pull over when dispatch messaged me back and asked me to call them. I was asked to move the tandems 2 holes beyond bridge and rescale. I was told to send the weights and a notation that I had moved the tandems beyond bridge per dispatch's instructions, and told that if I got an out of bridge citation that they would cover it. I was told to roll on after that to get past the Cajon scales while it was nighttime. I wasn't in a position to return to the T/A so I took the chance and headed north on I-15. The Cajon scales were closed, I made it to Hesperia (Pilot), moved the tandems and scaled out. Now my weights were good. All of this wasted over 100 miles (6 trips @17 miles/ea.) and more than 24 hrs. of my time because WCC couldn't get their load weights correct. Fast forward to this morning...I left the Love's in Hooker, OK. and while enroute to my delivery, I find a crack moving along my driver's side windshield, from the center (the split between the two windshields) outward, across my view. And I just had this same windshield replaced last year. Grrr!

 

LOL! Nice one! Wow. I've had nothing but good luck at WCC.

I have a trick to stop the crack in your windshield from spreading. This worked for me in some freezing rain in Nebraska and let me (more or less) legally limp along until I got back to a company shop. Take a hammer and a screw or nail and climb up in the engine to access the outside of your windshield. Get out in front of the crack an inch or so and pop the nail with the hammer. You're trying to create a "bullseye". It will take a pretty good rap or two. (If by chance you have a drill with you, drill a shallow hole first to place your nail in) Now get back inside the truck, and gently press on the end of the crack. Run the crack into the bullseye. This relieves the stress on the windshield and the crack will stop spreading.

 

It's kind of like when you get a certain type of car. You may not have seen very many before, but now that you have one, you seem to see them all, everywhere!

 

Thanks for the tip, but I'm scheduled for service at the terminal anyway. I just have to make this delivery, then go pick up in Olathe, KS. Then I can drop that one in the yard. So I'll be in Sapulpa sometime tomorrow. As for the nightmare, I've had pretty good luck so far...so I can deal with some adversity every now and then. As long as it doesn't get to be a habit. LOL....Keep on Truckin'!

 

Let's try this again. I converted them to JPEGs from my original PDFs, and edited out the sensitive info (a
home address and SS#. So here goes.

 

Here's a nice example...

 

...and this one too...