Average engine loads

[Rawze]

For the lifetime ECM load average, and not the trip average ...

Most highway trucks are in the 28% - 32% ~ish or so range. Well cared ror trucks usually are in the lower end of that.. and people who drive speed limits and waste fuel like a fool, using cruise all the time, etc.. are in the upper end of it.

Once you start seeing above 42% ~ish, then it is something either driven really hard by someone who don't give a damn about their truck.. or is a heavy haul truck (135k_lb and higher loads).

Canadian road-trains are usually in the 43% - 48%+ range ... sometimes as high as 53%~ish, and like mentioned on highway trucks.. the higher the number,... the more careless someone has been with it and the more abusive.

The Aussie road train trucks are in a completely different class all together though. - For the Aussie road-train trucks (extreme upper end that is seen) trucks, it is not unusual to see pure torturing values of 90%+ numbers. I have seen a few that were sitting at 98% and had a lot of miles on the clock.


This brings up a good point ...

The irony is that many of the Aussie road-train truck engines that I have seen, that get decent programming in them, etc. will usually last longer than the typical canadian road train truck engines. It is usually about 800km (less than optimal for sure) vs. only about 500km OR LESS for the canadians. This is because aussie enignes are not as badly abused like canadian trucks. Things like torturing rear ends that are egared wrong, the engine being lugged to death below 1500RPM... and then combine that with the plague of bad delete programming up there = nothing but pre-mature failures and costly issues.

- But you ask the typical canadian road train jockey .. they are quick to argue with ya and be thick-headed, swear their garbage delete program that they paid good $$$ for, that some complete moron shoved in there ECM, is not the issue. They always blame all their problems and short-as-h#ell engine lifespans on the engine itself instead.