Surprise paycheck hit: goverened at 62 MPH

I know, that's one thing I was going to bring up. How could they know what these trucks would do if they took them straight from the dealer to the shop and changed all the settings before putting them on the road? Which is exactly what they did.

And this is getting better. Boss left a fleetwide message asking if anyone could guess what the number 6.3 meant. Prize was two movie tickets for the first 5 to call in and get it right. I'm pretty sure it's the fleet average. Now he's offering a gift card for the first three that can tell him why the two independent contractors that just signed on are averaging 7.41mpg and none of the company trucks can come near that.

 

Did you send back a message about him screwing up the trucks?

 

I got a good laugh out of it and I almost pulled over to do it but I'm thinking it would be more fun in person.

 

You factor in idle time ?
Even with an AP unit,I'm positive the Cummin's people would like to know how you arrive at those fuel mpg numbers.
There are "FLEETS" of these motors that are cut and and run 12-16 mph slower,they would love to see numbers close to what you allege

Must be Turbo3000 equipped

 

Man, run 51MPH, on half wornout used ribs, overinflate 10%, hire premium efficient driver, cut it off as you coast into your stops.
Then hang on a pup tanker to collect your fuel manufactured. LOL LOL

 

The first one it's not hard to do math of gallons versus miles driven when you fillup.

The last truck had PeopleNet Fuel Management and stats with read outs.

Second truck had APU and idle time kept under 4%. You never see my tach go above 1700. I've seen many trucks with better mpg's than me. I don't see why you are shocked? You must have a lead foot.

I was just showing the fuel savings by driving slower.

 

Not everybody "must" stop...

I don't drink coffee, matter of fact I usually don't drink anything except with breakfast and dinner...that way I don't have to stop every 50 miles and rinse off the tires.

I can drive 11 hours without stopping just fine...a days work in a truck is more about "average speed", not top speed.

I can legally do 660 miles in 11 hours...in a Maverick company truck, governed at 70, I drive it at 60-65 (depending on where I'm at)...by not stopping at every truck stop that I come to I keep my average up to at least 60.

Those guys that pass me 6-7 times the same day...are wasting time, fuel, and, wear and tear on the truck to do the same amount of work.


Driving a castrated truck sux, I won't argue with that...and I will never drive one that is governed under 65 (I believe it to be unsafe, too slow to get out of its own way)....but 65 isn't that bad.

 

We had to go through our fleet numbers when revamping our pay package. The one absolute truth I learned was the driver makes the difference in fuel.

We even moved drivers truck to truck switching high mileage drivers with low and their mileage went right with them for the most part. We did find the occasional CAC leak and the like but not even new rubber or idling will kill a trucks mileage faster than a driver.

We especially payed attention to guy's who ran pre-turn down with bad mileage and discovered a significant portion of their problem was fighting the trucks setting's and functions because they just "knew better" how to get good mileage(manual shifting, romping on the throttle to get up to speed[auto's in our fleet], and never ever recalculating their transmission when switching loads). Some tried the recommendations and greatly improved, some fought it and missed their last raise.

Our fleet average is just above 7.3 across the board but we still have people that just will not drive them the way they are told as that number should be at least 7.6.

 

Recalculating the transmission? What is that?

Nother tidbit: just shy of 540,000 miles on this engine and it's never been touched other than oil changes. Speaking of oil, there's plenty of it on the front axle under the vent tube from the valve cover.

 

An automatic will adjust how it pulls loads according to weight. Just pressing a button when on a new load, or even the same one but you get to level ground will set it back to low rpm shifting while it adjusts.

Think going from a 44000 lb paper load to a 500 mile 3000 lb pellet load. It will take the computer almost 200 miles to fully adjust to the lighter load so 40% of that load was run without the optimum fuel usage.



If people use the technology instead of fight it for the most part it works. Some people just will not utilize it so we partially connected pay raise's to fuel usage. It may shock you to find that some of those" my way" drivers who missed their last opportunity for a raise are now asking drivers that got theirs how to best use the equipment provided