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(10-17-2019 )Chamberpains Wrote:  Update -- On this trip from Greencastle Pennsylvania to Billings Montana then picked up grossing 78,000 in Lovell Wyoming and got to Cozad Nebraska, where I finally filled the tanks all the way up, I managed to squeak out 6.1 MPG pump to pump. I normally average above 7. Usually 7.0 to 7.5. so this was the lowest I've seen since I changed my driving habits a year and half ago. This all pulling 80k gross open air freight mainly in the N.E. region. If you're seeing any less than these numbers you have poor driving habits and or something wrong with the truck.

We run 55-60~ish, dry/reefer, usually heavy, and we average between illinois and Wyoming a lifetime fuel mileage of 7.415 mpg when fuelling in Illinois, then again in Wyoming.

ref: "il_wy / avg.=7.415 / peak=8.367"

Going the other way though, even when heavy, we always make up for it. Lifetime shows 8.4 mpg going east from Wyoming towards Illinois/Indiana, and 8.6 going from Wyoming towards Missouri..

ref: "wy_in / avg.=8.435 / peak=9.184"

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Just putting this here for reference so that others can calculate how much more it costs them with an open air trailer (flat/step deck, etc) compared to a dry-van/reefer operations.

I would surely hope that whatever freight they are hauling has a higher rate to cover the extra fuel costs. if not, then they are loosing money after fuel and maint. comes out of that pay.