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anybody have any recommendations or ideas on how to improve our equipment ? or safety features to add ? please post if you do thank you
 
I think a 62 mph top speed is a safety issue, considering I drive in a state that is 70 for cars and trucks. We are always impeding the flow of traffic.
 
It's pretty bad that you are pulling a hill in Pa with 25,000 lbs on and Fedex, O.D and others pass you like your standing still while your downshifting into 9th gear. There is alot of wasted fuel when you have to downshift. Once you hit 1300 rpm's the engines fall flat on their faces. XGO needs to face the facts. They don't know how to set up a truck for a good power to fuel mileage ratio. Might also help if the man running the maintanence department at XGO actually knew about class 8 trucks other than paper pushing XGO politics.
 
Dodge Ram said:
It's pretty bad that you are pulling a hill in Pa with 25,000 lbs on and Fedex, O.D and others pass you like your standing still while your downshifting into 9th gear. There is alot of wasted fuel when you have to downshift. Once you hit 1300 rpm's the engines fall flat on their faces. XGO needs to face the facts. They don't know how to set up a truck for a good power to fuel mileage ratio. Might also help if the man running the maintanence department at XGO actually knew about class 8 trucks other than paper pushing XGO politics.
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Maybe their trailers are mty..:hide:
 
waffle man said:
I can imagine. A 70 mph speed limit means cars and owner/operators drive 75-80 or more. The only people that drive 62 on the freeway are us and ABF, and anyone driving a Lincoln Towncar.
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Only the stupid, hobby trucking, owner operators drive 75-80.

70 mph is a good speed. The truck I drive maxes out at 70 and I don't have near as much problems with other traffic. As an ex truck owner, I know why companies limit their trucks. Fuel is the biggest expense of operating a truck. Speed is the biggest killer of fuel, next is driving habits.

The biggest mistake with specing trucks I see freight companies making is trying to get by will low horsepower/ torque settings. Look at it this way, if an engine is working 99% of the time, you use more fuel. If the engine isn't struggling to maintain speed, the engine will rest and save fuel.

When I owned trucks, you watched the turbo pressure. More turbo pressure equals more fuel usage. Keep the pressure down, the engine is working less and using less fuel.

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waffle man said:
I can imagine. A 70 mph speed limit means cars and owner/operators drive 75-80 or more. The only people that drive 62 on the freeway are us and ABF, and anyone driving a Lincoln Towncar.
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or out west oak harbor runs at 59. ups Parcel will blow your doors off then run 55mph the rest of the way. *******s so you are playing leapfrog with them all night.
 
Keeping the turbo pressure down results in reduced power and if you're gonna attempt to stay out of boost you might as well remove the extra weight and go NA (sarcasm). As far as hard parts are concerned, they've got what they got, and it's a bad combo for trying to tweak fuel economy. IMO the best thing they could do would be increase boost pressure in high gear so we don't have to drop a gear so often, and if you wait to long to downshift, you're out of the turbochargers efficiency zone and in turbo lag and you've got no pulling power. But honestly, IMO this whole thing about fuel mileage is hard to take seriously when you have a sticker on the dash that says we're NEVER to exceed 62. That means downhill too, which translates into taking a pass on the offer of free energy in the form of gravity. If every driver held their truck back to 62 on every hill... what effect do you suppose that would have on fuel consumption?
 
The New Trucks Suck I give it until the end of the month and somebody will have ripped that pretty fearing off the truck they are 6 inches from the ground the first time you go over a rail road track speed bump its gone !! I Refuse to drive them so if you like the new trucks you can drive it I wont fight you for it !!
 
Con-F-Trucker said:
The New Trucks Suck I give it until the end of the month and somebody will have ripped that pretty fearing off the truck they are 6 inches from the ground the first time you go over a rail road track speed bump its gone !! I Refuse to drive them so if you like the new trucks you can drive it I wont fight you for it !!
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Your refering to the '13? I haven't seen them..
 
yes i have seen them we got two of them in Today they have just like and over the road tractor a fearing over the fuel tanks and it rides low to the ground i measured it 6 inches exactly with all the problems they have had with the Bumpers being low you would think somebody would realize this is a huge mistake ???????????? we have trucks in the shop right now 4 of them where they have ripped the bumper off the truck ??

beerfd said:
Your refering to the '13? I haven't seen them..
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