If your getting 5.7 to 6mpg with that huge truck with a BIG CAT & the water tank and all the stuff in it AND your pulling 40,000 grand? Dan your doing better than most guys with regular 379's out there! I don't care what they say, I'll take a 6nz Cat any day🥰🤗
I knew a O/O that had an '05 Pthe wy 379 with a 550 hp C-15 bumped back to 475 hp. It also had an 18 speed manual transmission and 3.36 rears. He pulled a tandem rolltite. He was wide open (meaning no govenor) but even though he was wide, he said he found her sweet spot which also happened to be 62 mph. He did his best to keep the truck locked in at 62 mph.
Morning dan. I have a 2001 ihc with 450 isx pull step deck run mostly flat country. Only run 58 mph been doing that for years bought truck new got 1,765,000 miles on it in the warm weather been running between 7.5 to8.5 have 370 rears 11 24 5 tires. Been running sixty to seventy cents a mile for fuel. Have run Cummins engines since 1978. Good luck Dan happy Fourth of July. You and Teresa. And little doggie.
For many years I traveled the USA with my wife and son in a conversion van for ten years and then in an RV. I loved figuring out optimal speed for the best fuel mileage. Your video made me think of that! Now I travel on my Goldwing! 🏍🇺🇸🎒
Hello Dan and Bailey yes Dan be sure to keep up with bailey's pedicure lol it is important good to hear from you two all of us in Arizona love to see your videos so please keep them rolling. You and Bailey be safe...
I did construction work on the rest stops in York. That was a long time ago. There's a women's prison in York, I've known couple of ladies who have done time there.
Dan and Family Happy 4th. I love your Videos! Bailey is a Star!! I can relate to everything you show. I can't imagine hauling anymore with ELD and idiots on the road. Retired owner operator.
You asked where everyone was going. 4th of July weekend coming up. They are all out spinning their wheels. It's funny, when I was an O/O in the mid to late 1970's, my 1978 KW K100 (cabover, don't laugh, 55' max length, 55 mph national speed limit) running a Cummins 400 w/13 speed at 65 mph, would get 5 mpg. I know your truck is 20 years old, but you would think technology would have returned at least 2 more mpg than what that brick going down the road got.
Thanks Dan, Teresa, Bailey & Katie! Good news on the mileage for a baseline. Thanks for sharing and take more long walks with stretching exercises, might make those big tarp jobs easier to in crease your flexibility. You will know when you bend over and cannot reach/touch the ground easily.
Dan, don't know which camera/microphone combination you used to record this video but it was excellent. I went out for lunch yesterday and ate in my car. Pulled up this video and rather than use my cellphone speaker to listen to it, I connected to the Bluetooth on my car's stereo. Wow, it was incredible. Blindfolded, you would have thought you were in the passenger seat of your truck. The bass rumbling while you were idling around the Iowa 80 truckstop getting out to the road was as realistic as could be. Keep up the great videos. I really enjoy watching and learning from them.
Another great video Dan. You always seem to do a nice tarp job. I know being a flat deck driver a nicely tarped load says who ya are. Boy 5.7 miles per gallon is not a lot. Years back it mattered less and now it’s everything. You probably don’t have any payments on the tractor and that makes it a little easier and if the Dorsey is paid for your in a good position. I really enjoy watching your videos Dan because I like the way you truck, stay safe Dan…
I was hoping you were going to beat 6.0 mpg,but I bet with a fresh tune up, oil, injector cleaning and timing, air, oil and fuel filters 6.0 isnt far off!!!.. Thanx for the ride Dan!🇺🇸✌
That's 39.2 litres/100km for us metric folk. That's about the same as what I get in the DAF CF 530 (MX13) I drive locally here in Melbourne Victoria. Usually be loaded with 23 tonne (to about 41ish tonne - about 90k lbs gross) outbound and empty on the return.
I had an old cabover int back in the 90s with a 350 cumminsturned up to 400 with a 10 speed ran at 1600 to1800rpms and got 5.5 miles to a gallon back when fuel was cheap
at 6 miles to the gallon its plain to see your not in it for the money Dan , its a passion . as an Englishman the thought of 6 miles to a gallon of diesel is terrifying 🥶
I like that big orange hood and I'll bet you go through the wood this trip. You're a go through the woods kinda guy. Thanks so much for all the great videos
Awesome Video as always. I saw 4 Trucks yesterday waiting to be unloaded at a new build site was hoping one of them was you but nope. Oh well maybe one day. Stay safe Bailey.
Enjoy your videos. I drove a greyhound bus until March 1990, then for A&W trucking in Mt Airy NC. MT Airy to California and back through Benson AZ each trip. Enjoy seeing how things have changed.
Hi Dan and Baylie! I'm a retired truckdriver from Norway. When I see todays fuel prices, I'm happy to have left my truck for good. For your information we pay about three times what you pay for diesel and gasoline. I used to drive a Scania V8, 14 litre manual shift, fully syncromeshed. Average fuel consumption fully loaded was between 3,5 and 4 litres pr 10 km, you do the math. I love watching you and Baylie out on the roads. Stay safe Dan, pet Baylie for me and give Theresa my best regards.
Heck u have cats all ur career so u know they are a high torque low rpm motor, if it were me I'd change the rear gears and put a tune on it so you can stay at 65 to 66 your comfortable cruising speed at a lower rpm idk like 1300 at 65 and that tune to set it at a happy medium with lil more power to pull out the high range gears but yet also the better mpg
i use to buy my sterling silver rings at Walcott Ta, but then they changed the counter around and no longer sold said rings. {silver rings to keep werewolves away} lol
Hey Dan !!! Yepper !! Even with the mileage at 5.5 to 6 MPG ,, at least you DON'T have to buy that high priced ""DEF"" !! HAHA 🙃😊🤔🤔🤠😎😮👍👍👍👍👍 Have a good run back home !!!
Yes I totally agree with you on the horns for sure Dan!! I definitely think that you should upgrade the horns on your awesome rig for sure!! The things I look at in really cool trucks is that they definitely have to be a manual tranny awesome paint job, awesome sounding horns, a really good reliable engine with plenty of power, and definitely a Peterbilt!!! Lol!! I definitely don’t think a big rig should be a automatic!! That’s definitely a no no I think!! But I guess some just don’t no how to drive a manual and if not I definitely don’t think they should be driving a big rig either!!! Lol!! Just my thoughts!! Dan definitely you need to fix them horns though!! It sounds like a sick goose if you was to ask me!!! Lol!! Awesome video buddy and remember keep up all the hard work buddy!!!!
Well how close was that, I went to Walcott on Friday to go thru the trucker museum, just missed you, I got there around 10:30. Not sure if you have ever went thru the museum but if you have time well worth it!!!
Hi Dan, 6 mls per gallon ist impressive with a flat nose truck. You can try 60 mls per hour and check the fuel consumption. Maybe you get about a mile more
my Omnitrac log got the same update.. acording to them “After the latest software update you should now see a D and M in the top right of your screen. The D is a diagnostic icon and the M is a malfunction icon. Please note: if the icons are both gray, they are inactive. The D is active when orange and the M is active when red”
Ouch. You got a really cool truck... but if I figure out the numbers it hurts a bit. Just checked my last week. With 26t (57.320lb) load (timber stored in a 40ft container), half of the way with empty container (88.184lb with timber, 30.864 empty gross weight) I have used 602 liters (159 gallons). Distance was 2.630km (1634 miles), mixed traffic including some traffic jams. Overall I had an mpg from 10.27 (22,9 liter/100km... our way to measure it) Truck: Scania S770 (770 european horses, 759 in US hp) But the prices. One liter diesel was 2.01 Euro last week. This is equivalent to 2.1$ per litre, makes 7,95$ per gallon of Diesel. Shortly: you are paying about one dollar per mile, I'm doing it for about 77 cents. But topping up hurts equally... for my last 1.450l (about 383 gallons) I had to pay 2.914 Euro or 3,038 Dollars.
That's why I run an older truck that doesn't require an eld they're a joke. I used to run an e model cat I always run her about 1500 to 1550s where it got the best fuel mileage I'd get a little over six. Stay safe after Dan I'll see you next time.