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[OntarioVanMan]

So what are ya doin with all your extra time?

Seeing Mi increased your speed to 60mph it now takes 20 minutes less from Ind to Detroit airport e199....

Kentuck went to 70mph...same thing Covington to border on 75...Yet another 20 miutes saved...you just got a pay raise and not a mention of it and more chances of an extra load????

 

[greg334]

How do you figure that we got a pay raise? If anything the 20 minutes may help with a delivery but the cost of running at the higher speeds will offset any time savings.

I think it is time we see logging in vans!

 

[OntarioVanMan]

Pay raise....because you get done sooner and if your log permits can accept another trip....hence increased revenue...

Van log???....isn't that a bad word????:*

 

[ATeam]

That may be true if one load follows another without time in between, but that is rarely the case. For example, we will deliver this morning (Thursday) and pick up our next load (predispatched yesterday) Friday afternoon. We will run that one over the weekend and deliver Monday morning. We might get a run that picks up Monday afternoon but it is more likely our next run will pick up sometime Tuesday. We complete about 12 runs a month as a CR team.

Higher speed limits offer no time savings for us. We almost never drive faster than 65. 60 and 55 is just fine with us. We save money by saving fuel.

 

[OntarioVanMan]

I realize my scenerio is off the wall somewhat...

My point is:

When there is even a little bit of postive out there it gets ignored and most are always, always more focus on the negative.

 

[greg334]

Well Phil is the exception to the norm, he's special. :+

But seriously, I am glad he is doing well and he is 100% right when he said "Higher speed limits offer no time savings for us. We almost never drive faster than 65. 60 and 55 is just fine with us. We save money by saving fuel."

It is the fuel savings that matters, but as I said in the soap box, higher speeds = more fuel consumed = higher tax revenue.

 

[LDB]

I agree in theory and if we were driving for Big Rig OTR Brothers it could potentially be a positive since we'd either get to the next load sooner or get to the 10 hour break sooner and thereby to tomorrow's load sooner. Big ROB would be paying fuel so it wouldn't matter. In my case, I pretty much always drive 59-62mph regardless of the limit. I do like that they went from 55-60 just because now my 59-62 is on the money and not a few over. A trooper would have to be far more constipated to hit me for 62 in a 60 than even 59 in a 55.

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[Jefferson3000]

I usually stay in the 59-62 zone as well in a truck. But every now and then when everyone is moving faster than me, I notice that I've suddenly shot up to the 70 mpg limit. But usually that happens when I'm in the granny lane, and Big Rig OTR Brothers are trying to ride right up my .


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[buckeyewildman]

OVM off the wall ?? more like off the moon

 

[jrj337]

Drive the same, but log faster

 

[dhalltoyo]

Technically the "Sweet Spot" for my 6.0L is 1900 RPM's.

That puts me at 61 mph.

The 2008 has a Driver Command Center that allows for a digital tachometer display and I can dial in the cruise to an exact RPM.

On a return trip from the deep South I averaged 20.5 mpg!

WOW!

 

[arkjarhead]

Actually the trucks running for the big companies are mostly governed at about 63-65. So the increase to 70 mph won't effect them much. That's why the ATA wants everyone to be cut back to 65. So little man will lose the edge he has in competetion by being able to get that hot load there an hour faster. Think about a load that picks up in Louisana going to California. The small guy can run 70 across Texas which is a big state so the time adds up. Then I think it's 75 across NM and AZ. That doesn't mean you have to run that, but it could really help the big companies if you couldn't. The main thing is keeping the doors closed.