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[Chamberpains]

Do you drive with cruise control or your foot? 90% of my driving is by foot because the damned cruise control is way too aggressive at accelerating to keep a certain speed. Start using your foot feed all the time. You'll find very quickly that a lot of little hills don't need throttle if you simply sacrifice a couple MPH to get over it and you can regain the lost speed at a much more fuel efficient rate on the downhill side. Often times you can pop it out of gear (oog) and coast over the hills never using more than idle fuel to crest the hill compared to the cruise controls manic need to keep your MPH at the set point. Start using the terrain to your wallets advantage. Coasting down hills to get up and over the next without ever touching the accelerator. Always remember safety 1st and above all else. Accidents and run aways are game over moments. But there is a lot of ground out there that you can safely move freight without the truck in gear.
Driving with the terrain and oog a lot keeps my 06 International 9400i w/ cm870 pulling open air freight on a stepdeck up in the the high 6 low 7 mpg average and often seeing high 7's when im out on the flats away from the east coast mountains. Seeing anything in the 5's is a thing of the past for well over a year because I corrected my driving habits. Unless I'm strictly in the god awful mountains of West Virginia. They are some real fuel milage killers. But even then, I keep on top of my game and keep it in gear all the time but still use the terrain to the best of my advantage. I see high 5's at absolute worst in those areas. High RPM's, low boost (try pulling any hill no matter how steep or long by using only 10 psi boost) in lower gears pulling hills as to not put strain on the engine or the drive train, not worrying about what speed I climb the hill, letting out of the throttle and possibly out of gear for a moment before I crest the hill and go up and over the top at slow speeds (like 10mph or slower sometimes) then very gently or using no throttle at all to regain speed on the down hill side.