THE ADVENTURES CONTINUE - DFO gets a truck and hops on Schneider's IC Choice Program

I dozed off for a bit and am now wide awake again. Hopefully can go back to sleep soon lol. Oh well, helloooooo truckersreport.

Glad you found something to get moving. One thing to remember is plan loads THROUGH the weekend if at all possible. I'm bad about not doing that, and then sitting around during the weekend because I failed to grab a decent load, and nothing new is being added. Rarely does new decent stuff come up on the load boards on the weekends.

Try dropping half a gear more than you need to when pulling the hills - a little more RPM will probably help with MPG pulling the hills, and should burn less fuel than having to load the engine more at a lower RPM. This helped my MPG with my ISX. It took a while to break the habit from the company truck of "PUT IT ON THE FLOOR" when climbing hills. If I'm pulling a hill I won't keep my foot on the floor to maintain speed, even if the engine can pull it like this. I'll start dropping gears until the truck finds the spot where it is happy, not me. Why do I care, I'm in no hurry, I've got nothing to prove with how fast I can climb the hill. I really need to install a mechanical boost gauge so I can find the optimal amount of throttle to keep it at when pulling hills, though. Right now its just kinda guesswork based on how things sound.

Lately I've been trying REALLY hard to keep my RPMs down. I'm shifting at 1300 and with the way the ratio gaps are on the 13 speed each shift drops about 300 RPM so it drops back down to 1000 after each shift. Very noticeable MPG gains for me driving like this. Still need to replace my MAP sensor though. Maybe that's still eating some MPG from me. Who knows.

 

Once you get to Maryland check loads out of Aberdeen.... usually Frito!!

 

Well I think its just you and me going back and fourth on the forum tonight.. looks like everyone else is asleep. I think I better take the hint and do the same LOL.

 

10 years in a governed or ungoverned truck? That's the big difference for me. I can go faster if I want. Passing is no problem, though usually I can go a long time before I have to pass someone. I get much more tired running 65, getting stuck behind governed trucks taking 5 minutes to pass a 64mph truck, etc. To each his own I guess. 60 in a governed truck that can only pass at 63 sucks big time though I'll agree with that.