Re: OT: semi mileage

Posted by The tractor vet on April 04, 2014 at 11:49:30 from (75.19.115.57):

In Reply to: OT: semi mileage posted by blinwmiaol.com on April 04, 2014 at 02:20:01:

While i was on the road not vary often was i at 78000 lbs maybe setting on the deck with 43600 under that with a 3406 550 Cat turned up to well over 700 ponys and during warm weather months i would see 6.5-6.7 every day in winter it would drop down to 6.2-6.4 . As for the cruise did not use it much and as for the Jake it was turned on when the truck got started and never shut off till the truck was . Years back before the onset of electronics . I ran a 855 Cummins that was turned way up and it also had stump pulling gears not road gears as 85 maybe 86 was tops for speed and i was pulling a coal bucket . the bucket was usually filled to the brim and at times looked like ya stopped a Dairy Queen . The only exception was Mangenies ore there ya did not want to look like a DQ stop or broke carbon electrodes Nah , half a wagon load was way more then enough and sometimes way tomuch . Usual load was around 120 to 140000 lbs and the old 4300 would pull down a good 5.5 to 5.7 . Carried 220 gallon of fuel on it and always figured 1100 miles between fuel stops. But back in them days only Refers did the LONG haul from coast to coast and us Coal buckets worked no feather out then maybe 150-175 miles from home running roads that make you youngen cringe . and as for a AUTOMATIC transmission Ah yea wright it was either a five and three a five and four or a 4x4 TWIN stick sticking up out of the floor , when the 13 speed came out we all thought that we died and went to heaven . The old ten speeds would not cut it and the fifteen speed only gave ya extra on the bottom . Back in 79 one company tried the Allsion in there new West Coast Macks with 400 Cummins , yea that worked out well for them lasted about five months and were removed and replaced with 13 speeds. Now today it is hard to find anybody that knows what that extra pedal on the left is for let lone be able to figure out what gear to put it in . And if they do master it they can only count to 10 .

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