Fuel mileage

[Rawze]

(10-09-2019 )DDlighttruck Wrote:  ...
Wait a minute, please. 715 divided by 12 is 59-ish, or 59-ish mph average. I thought the 55-60 mph was the area to aim for? I know it was a long day but I thought running slower was the goal here

600 divided by 50 is 12, you cant log that legal in the USA. You’d have to shoot for a 55 mph average per driving shift to get your 11 hour drive time, which is hard to max out every day.

You can’t tell me (well, you can and will) that there’s THAT much difference between a 11 hour 55 mph driving shift for 600 miles and a 12 hour 700 mile driving shift for 59 mph average.

How do you expect to hit 600 miles per shift at a 50 mph average?

That is some seriously flawed math there. Go convince some dumb-arsses on social medai with that garbage-can thinking, it does not belong here!!!


600 miles total (from pick up to delivery) = one driving shift only!. == Is easily doable in a single 11 hours if you keep the damn door shut and don't stop (minus the 30 min required break)!. U drive it 58-63~ish and your overall average is going to be around 54~!ish usually. - At a bare minimum speed most of the trip, u need to go about 8~9ish+ mph (that is really squeezing it and is hard to do) over the required average to hit the overall trip avg. within one single driving shift. That is how u get 8+ mpg!.

Much more than about 600~ish miles in a single trip kills most of this (because u have to speed up even more) and starts to cost more money, not less to make a delivery on time!. By the time a person gets to having to do more than about 650 miles pick up to delivery, and doing it in one shift, - a large portion of the fuel mileage saving is out the window because the truck has to be driven much faster (65-68 mph) and the fuel mileage is down in the mid to low 7's or perhaps even less if u got a truck or load that is not very aero-dynamic.

GET A GODDAMN GPS THAT HAS OVERALL TRIP AVERAGE ON IT!!! -- ONE THAT THE AVERAGE DROPS AND DROPS THE WHOLE TIME YOU ARE STOPPED OR ARE SLOWED DOWN, AND DOES NOT PAUSE THE AVERAGE WHILE YOU ARE NOT MOVING (not all gps's can do this, many are garbage when it comes to average speed calc.) AND YOU WILL FIND OUT THAT AVERAGE SPEED CANNOT BE YOUR DRIVING SPEED === U ALWAYS HAVE TO DRIVE SOME AMOUNT FASTER THAN YOUR AVERAGE TO MAKE THE TOTAL TRIP AVERAGE!!!!!

-- HOW MUCH FASTER == HOW MUCH YOU HAVE WASTED BY STOPPING OR GETTING ON/OFF HIGHWAYS, ETC!.

-- Loads that are more than one driving shift, need to overall average 50 mph drive time, and 48 if u can pick it up early or negotiate a bit on the time so that you can get higher profit from it ( minus required 10 hr breaks if solo) from pick up to delivery. -- and a person will do good to get make the average by driving it about 10-11 mph over that if they don't stop at all between shifts, and minimize their delays getting on and off the freeways. The avg needs to be 50 (and not 54-55+) because of the multiple on/off freeways and stopping, etc. kills the overall average more than a single shift load will. - a multi-shift trip, if u drive it 60~ish down the highways u will usually make it on time AND EVEN A BIT LESS IF YOUR REALLY GOOD at minimizing start/stop requirements, like parking or driver changes at rest areas with fast access to highways instead of those goddamn truck stops that kill 20+ minutes of driving at speed or more by the time u go from highway speeds, get in and out, then back to highway speed again. - I avoid the truck stops like the plague when under load. - They are no place for a loaded truck unless your running out of fuel, or required to be used because there is nothing else quicker (rest area, an entrance ramp, etc.) around at all!.

Someone claiming there is little to no difference in 700+ in one 11-hour shift is complete lunacy!!!! -- even if u squeeze your stop time to a bare minimum, u will still have to drive that truck a goddamn 71 MPH the whole time to make it in 11 hours! -- you will kill that truck, kill your fuel mileage and all your profit will go to every repair shop you have to stop at and you will also be funding the already rich oil companies for all your stupidity!...

here's your sign!@!!


- enjoy the view!!! --- all the fuel mileage wasted because you take s$it loads that are nothing but fuel and truck killers all goes to these guys!!!

-- You had better damned believe that I can get into just about anyone's truck and get a mile peer gallon better that they do most days on the same goddamn load, the same goddamn trip, because most truck owners and drivers have really crappy driving and shifting habits, use the cruise control way too damn much out of sheer lazyness, they dpn't keep the tranny in neutral and coasting that weight nearly enough, poor planning of stops, shi$itty attitude about how fast or they push that equipment, changnine lanes and passing people instead of letting the truck slow down, then making it up later, and the sheer dumbarsse-ness of stopping at the nearest set of shiny trick stops with terrible on-off-on highway speed killing delays while under load!.

You want a pay raise --- LEARN HOW TO DIVE THAT THING LIKE RAWZE WOULD!!!!!

The same social medai idiots who think it is impossible to get 9+ mpg on an 80,000 lb reefer or dry-van load are the same blind fools who complain that a few more miles in a single shift don't make much of a difference!.

When a person OWNS THEIR OWN EQUIPMENT -- THE GOAL IS TO work and drive it the least amount of miles possible for a given required minimum speed, as slow as possible during the trip, get away with as early pick as possible, and as late a delivery as possible for a given load, and to lower their driving speed as tight as possible to the required minimum average trip speed to get it there. Piss away any of those things and your pissing away profits at your own stupidity!.