Waiting on New Trucks thread.

I am seeing about changing my settings from 500HP 1850/1550 Eco Torque to a 455HP 1850 High torque. Thinking it may get me a little over a 1/2 mpg better and waiting to see what the cost is gonna be. I run 1150-1250 RPM 90 plus percent of the time and that is the sweet spot on that set up.

 

I once got 6.5 mpg, and then woke up from my dream!

 

Those mpg numbers at that speed are impressive.

 

Talking today with a friend of mine. He bought a new Stoughton Z plate on my advice in March 2020. Paid $36k. Got a great deal. Since then he bought 6 Atros. He never really liked the Stoughton. I’ve jokingly offered to give him what he paid. Now he’s planning on selling it, for about $45k, but willing to give me a much better price. I’m guessing $40k, which is fair. It’s tempting. My 08 might bring $14k or ? at Auction. Not sure. All things being equal, a about a $26k difference maybe. About the same as pre Covid cost difference.
Probably the best deal on a Trailer I’ll find for a while. It’s a nice Trailer. Exactly what I planned on buying, but hesitated in 2020. I’m going to chew on it a while.

 

I really dislike all of you right now, on the BEST of days I get 4.5 MPG
My only saving grace is 80% of my jobs I get a free fuel card that I don’t have to pay off

 

Let me know how it works. I can do the programming myself. Same run, same driver and the DD15's are 2-3/10's higher

 

Well just got off the phone with them and now they are saying it cant be done. That setting was only for a day cab according to Volvo. I don't know what kind of BS that is but whatever. Gonna have them print out my parameters and go over all of them and see what else I can change to improve MPG's. So hopefully figure something out tonight or tomorrow on the settings.

 

I'll have to plug in and take a look at mine. One of them was set to take off in a higher gear and had clutch heat codes, changed it to start in 2nd. Manual mode is blocked, i leave it on for certain drivers.

 

Don't blame you on that one. If I had drivers I would be setting it up so they cannot mess up the dang thing. Too many people have no respect for someone else property.