I gave up on mileage long ago, I can't get mine over 6.4. I might be able to if I drove only 55mph, but I consider that as being a road hazard on highways with speed limits of 70+. Not to mention I can't stand moving that slow. Plus, with the new PFP system, miles per day counts for 50 points while mileage counts for 18... Almost seems self defeating lol. More miles and less mpg, or more mpg and less miles? I'd probably go for the first one, since its 50 points of your total 100.
Do you short your tank cause there is no way you ppl get over 8.00 on a tank. i can drive 58 on a warm day and still only get 7.00
I've got over 8 mpg on a tank lots of times. Drive like grandma with the right load and terrain, it is very possible. As far as miles vs. Mpg...I'll take both. Maverick does their part by giving you the miles, you do your part by saving them fuel...win/win
I think 90% of the loads I've pulled since the first of the year have been up hill and into the wind. At least 50% have been with the temp under 20 degrees. And if all that wasn't bad enough I think the winter blend of fuel cost me 1 mpg. Additionally I've been pulling '05 trailers most of the time and we all know how heavy they are. Come to think of it ever since I had those trailer lights fixed at the Madison shop my MPGs have fallen off. Whats your excuse?
7.1 gives you 18 points on the PFP and read carefully re the PFP. Some of the categories, MPG is one of them, There is a + after the points which means ie in the MPG category, at 7.1 you get 18 points and more if you are higher. Points for the MPG category are unlimited. The Miles per Day category is based on fleet average. As long as you are at or above the average, you get 50 points so no matter how much above the average of the fleet you are, you get 50 points. I don't have the notes in front of me that I took but do remember other + categories listed, "Maverick Way" being one of them. Haven't been by NLR to find out if "attaboys" are going to count for +s in that category but will. Do what you want. Like sewerman says, I cant fault a guy for wanting to do the speed limit. Whatever works for you. I'm pretty sure Jim the Hut tried experimenting with driving faster to "get more loads in per week" but his experiment was one of those ideas that are good in theory, but in reality, the way our loads are dispatched, (extremely rare having one that you can pu, del and still have time to pu again) just doesn't work.....Re the "rolling roadblock" I'm one of the drivers other drivers call to get their MPG up and in talking with them, the one thing they all have in common is speed usually foot to the floor wherever they go. By the time they have to call me or another driver, their truck is usually been turned down to 62 yet still they are foot to the floor wherever they go. I tell them to figure out their MPG each time they fuel keeping in mind the weight, height, of the load, terrain, weather etc. One thing I never tell them to do is immediately slow down to 55 MPH. I suggest 2 to 3 weeks at a time beginning with not changing a thing so if they are at 62,...2-3 weeks at that speed, then 2--3 at 60, then 2--3 at 59, and so on down to 57. Purpose being two fold. by the end of the however many weeks until they finish the 3 weeks at 57, they have all that data in black and white right in front of them. Also they don't get sleepy from going so slow right of the bat and being a "rolling roadblock" as its been described (you're not the 1st to use this term and wont be the last) Try telling the LEO (law enforcement officer) that responds to the rear end accident that you didn't notice the vehicle in front of you was getting larger in your windshield(you're gaining on it), all the way up to the point when you ran into it. As long as the vehicle is within the minimum speed allowed and Maximum allowed (speed limit), it, being in front of you has the right of way.. . .and at the opposite end of the spectrum. If you're exceeding the speed limit, no matter how small, you no longer have the right of way.
