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(02-05-2021 )JimT Wrote:  Oh, for those of you who are low mileage, high engine hours people, such as lots of PTO use, just estimate engine hours based on typical over the road truck usage. (not sure I worded that right, started the weekend early with a good drink, oh well)

For example, lets say a typical over the road truck has a lifetime average of 45mph (stop and go, highway, idle time...). So, 400,000 miles / 45 mph = 8,888.8888889 hours or rounded you can say 8,900 hours of engine operation is roughly the same as 400,000 over the road miles.

Thanks for this. I was wondering what a over the road truck does for hours. With my dump truck I was just going to half the 400,000 suggestion and go with 200,000. But I averaged just above 20 miles per engine hour on my last truck. Your numbers put me at 178,000. Maybe I will be replacing parts every 150,000 or 125,000 just to be safe. That’s still 4 or 5 years for me.