7.9 MPG.....

[allan5oh]

FOR THE ENTIRE 3rd QUARTER!!!

[sidman82]

I guess that means your buying everybody diner or is it dinner, I always mess that up. :?

[allan5oh]

hehe, I only did 22,000 miles as well.

I'm such a lazy bastard.

Imagine how lazy I'm gonna be when my truck is paid off(dec 15th).

[Uturn2001]

Imagine how lazy I'm gonna be when my truck is paid off(dec 15th).

You are liable to bob tail around the block once or twice and come back and say you got 10.2 mph for the entire first half of next year. :P :P :wink:

[rank]

I know I asked this before allan but what are your specs, where, what do you pull and how fast do you pull it?

[allan5oh]

You are liable to bob tail around the block once or twice and come back and say you got 10.2 mph for the entire first half of next year. :P :P :wink:

LMAO

I know I asked this before allan but what are your specs, where, what do you pull and how fast do you pull it?

99 Volvo 770
425 volvo engine
13 speed
3.73 rears
XDN2 24.5 lo pro drives(gotta change those)
XZA3 24.5 lo pro steers

I run 58-60 mph, pulling dry van. Usually average in the 20k-25k range. Mostly "middle canada" and midwestern USA.

Some "mods" to my truck include:
- Full through muffler
- Insulated exhaust manifold before turbo
- 105 psi in tires(religiously)
- Reduced trailer gap(now at 32" instead of 39")
- Full synthetic driveline fluids(petrocanada traxon in the diffs)

Other then that, just regular maintenance.

[person]

Do you pull your own van? If so have you considered the nosecone?
http://www.nosecone.com/

[allan5oh]

no, company vans.

Would be nice to have that, and the freight wing setup too.

[person]

http://www.airtab.com/ What about these for the tractor?

[allan5oh]

I already have some fairing gap reducers, might just put on more. I think you can double them up.

[person]

These are tabs that you stick on your cab extender farings - right along the edge. You can only put on so many. They have to be spaced according to their template.

[rank]

I run 58-60 mph, pulling dry van. Usually average in the 20k-25k range. Mostly "middle canada" and midwestern USA.

thanks. that tells the story.

[mike3fan]

I run 58-60 mph, pulling dry van. Usually average in the 20k-25k range. Mostly "middle canada" and midwestern USA.

thanks. that tells the story.

Yeah,it sure does if I only pulled 25k and ran 60mph I could get 7mpg with my stupid Cat.

not cutting you down,you just have abnormal circumstances

[allan5oh]

Still, I know guys with classic trucks that can't even get 6 mpg running from Winnipeg to Minneapolis. Maybe a touch faster(62 mph), same weight.

[mike3fan]

Still, I know guys with classic trucks that can't even get 6 mpg running from Winnipeg to Minneapolis. Maybe a touch faster(62 mph), same weight.

I avg 6mpg pulling maxed out tankers,running 65-70 on the east coast,guess those acert engines aren't all bad.

[allan5oh]

Yeah those tankers must go through the wind pretty easy compared to our big boxes.

[mike3fan]

Yeah those tankers must go through the wind pretty easy compared to our big boxes.

Yeah but 45k in a tanker feels like 100k in a box,they are defintely hard to get going and hard to stop.

[allan5oh]

That's true, especially those unbaffled ones.

Wouldn't want to ever drive one when it's slick out. Must be fun!

[heavyhaulerss]

i get 7 mpg doing 60 pulling 48.000 one way & deadhead back. in a cabover 11.1 det 350 horses.

[ncnewbie]

Allan,

What impact do you think just tractor aerodynamics have when pulling a tank? Also, don't remember where I got this link from, but here's some interesting reading about fuel mileage from Cummins>

http://www.everytime.cummins.com/eve...Whitepaper.pdf