Waiting on New Trucks thread.

Do some research on that engine. Also look in to the new International engine as it is mocked off this truck. Your old style engine would blow up for sure but those new D13TC are made for this.

 

Early 2000s law was passed, went into full effect 2012ish.

 

Which is why I put up that little exercise a few pages back. It went flying over some heads. But application/operation type also plays an effect.

 

I’m not buying it. In any sense.

 

No one is saying Aero Spec fleet truck is gonna do 2-3 mpg over what you are doing. And you even said your aero truck was 200 HP less did you not? And they blew you away.

 

That is good. I sure would not want anyone buying anything if they know nothing about the product.

 

But, a fleet has been running this configuration, a number of years. Do you not think engine manufacturers prototype stuff? Do you not think engineers are smarter than you or I? Do you not think engine manufacturers put engines on robotic dynos for days, weeks, and months? Oil pan material is the final factor that makes it junk, from your perspective? FFS!

In a fleet of over 2000 composite oil pans I drove for, they weren’t a problem. For the hundreds of thousands of composite oil pans rolling down the road, they don’t appear to be a problem.

 

I dont believe that 1 bit.. Put those 5 trucks over the road and i doubt they'd out perform one another by very much. ... I never got better than 6mpg over the road in an aero truck either.... We are talking over the course of a couple years.. Not just 1 trip.. I know plenty of hoods running open deck doing those same numbers... How do u explain that? Your theory is uselss when your aerodynamics change every single load.... If the shape of the load on the deck has no effect on fuel mileage , according to some here . then how come i can go across the country and get 8mpg and come back the same way and get 5mpg.With the same weight on the load. Same route , same weight , same weather conditions.these are real life scenarios thay i have experienced with my own 2 eyes.. Not just some math equation that doesnt add up.. How does a load of Styrofoam roofing panels that weighs 7k pounds get 5 mpg but a load of bricks that weighs 48k i can get 6mpg . on the same route.... The nonsense aero truck theory being spouted off here doesnt make any sense to me because i dont see the benefit of it.. Because i have never experienced any benefit of any kind.. It only works of your aerodynamics never change. They are constant all the time.. This is not the case in the open deck world.. Your aero truck could not do much better than 6mpg pulling a flatbed. Id be willing to be alot of money on that simply because ive lived it for the last 6 years.. I am not the smartest guy in the world i will be the first to admit.. But this stuff only works on paper when the variables never change..

 

Europeans will argue that cabovers are more aerodynamic than our aero trucks.

 

To me it is, yeah. Probably got 80,000 maybe 100,000 by the time I get into it next month. 2023 VNL 860. It's not mine, just another loaner truck for a while.