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Post by Mahnarch on Jun 19, 2008 23:53:56 GMT -5
Typically, when I fuel up my semi I do the 'Pay At the Pump', which cuts you off at $200 (if anyone ever wondered if there was a cut-off, there is) which always gives me enough for my use and Randy's (my relief driver) for a day or two. Well, today I got down to a quarter tank and decided to fill it up, since Diesel was "down 10 cents". And, the final tally:  "1450 miles to empty" - on the digital fuel meter in my dash. $602.50, pumped in 7 minutes. |
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Post by Blastgirl on Jun 19, 2008 23:58:04 GMT -5
Wow. I guess I'll quit wining.
Tell us about Rachael.
I would say that a range and amount of gallons that means you get about fifteen miles to a gallon of Diesel Fuel.
That's not bad for an eighteen wheeler.
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Post by Mahnarch on Jun 20, 2008 1:19:04 GMT -5
Hmm, Racheal?
Well, she works at a truck stop.....and she...uhm.....knows how to run a register, I guess...
She's never really talkative.
Josh is pretty cool, though. He's a biker, like me, but, he's one of those blondes who's 'blonder than natural'.
The range on my meter isn't really all that accurate.
I get about 7-8 miles per gallon, on average (it gets down to about 2-3 when I'm accelerating but, that's only from 3rd to 10th) and 4-5mpg on long, uphill battles where I lose about 5-10 miles per hour by the time I reach the top.
You make up for a lot of that when you're decelerating at idle for ever (you can 'coast' for 2-3 miles from 55mph with all that weight behind you - and the computer figures that in.)
The weird part:
I can get a constant 9mpg in 9th gear at 45mph but, it drops to 7.5mpg at 45mph in 10th on flat ground (with a difference of 1500rpms and 1100rpms cruise speed, respectively).
The 'Torque Window' is everything in a semi.
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Post by Phil on Jun 20, 2008 12:48:24 GMT -5
I have the 8100Vortec in my Silverado. It takes about 160 to fill both tanks if it's nearly empty.
It does get about 12 miles a gallon though and being a 3500 4x4 with a bigblock that's about as good as it gets.
Even pulling my trailer the mileage is about the same though.
Yeah Mahnarch I guess I wont complain about prices of fuel or for that matter prices of shipping anymore.
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Post by Mahnarch on Jun 21, 2008 4:39:38 GMT -5
Hey! Your truck has dual tanks?
I didn't think they did that anymore....since 1987....
I thought they only came in single tank 35 and 55 gallon tanks.
Oh! I forgot about the F-250 Fords that kept the dual tanks until '95.
But, Chevy?
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As far as 'Shipping and Handling'
Yeah. Folks wonder why eggs cost so much these days.
That $602.50......my semi was reading about half way, already when I parked it tonight.
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Also, BG, when I was talking about the '1450 Miles to Empty'....I forgot to mention that: with a 1/4 tank(s) of fuel, I'm still carrying about 75 gallons (60 gals 'usable') - so that adds into the equation.
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Post by Phil on Jun 21, 2008 14:05:57 GMT -5
Hey! Your truck has dual tanks? I didn't think they did that anymore....since 1987.... No, it doesn't that's something I kind of kid about with my wife about filling both tanks. Good call on your part my 87 did have 2 tanks. And 1 on each side too. In that respect Ford had a better idea beacuse you don' t have to spin the truck around to fill both tanks. I was kind of projecting but I didn't clarify that. in the post. I never let my tank go fully empty and it often takes 85 to fill it. That's starting around 1/4 tank still in there. Blastgirl, you're right that's going to cause higher prices on everything that gets shipped. |
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Post by Mahnarch on Jun 21, 2008 16:03:53 GMT -5
Yeah. I hated having to deal with a tank on each side back in the day.
I'm surprised they didn't make satellite pumps just for those vehicles.
When I worked at the Full-Serve gas station and someone would pull up in a Ford with dual tanks that wanted them both filled, I'd open them both and use their side pump for one tank and reach around the other side and use that pump for the rear one - filled both at the same time - and got them out of there and on their way in half the time.
They liked that, and got into the habit of parking at the pumps in a certain spot so both hoses would reach.
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Post by tractakid on Jun 22, 2008 13:33:13 GMT -5
Wha wha wha wha.... What vehicle is this? What size tank? My car gets around 47 mpg, and costs £63 to fill up. 55 litre capacity. You do the conversions, as I can't be bothered  . |
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Post by dannyboy on Jun 22, 2008 15:47:34 GMT -5
 This kind of truck. |
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Post by Mahnarch on Jun 22, 2008 22:45:14 GMT -5
Yeah. That's the truck, except with this tractor.  Except, mine's white. And, I can hold 200 gallons, or 909.2180000000001 Litres. 125 gallons on one side (passenger side) 75 on the other (driver's side). They each feed back and forth to maintain a common level. Only about 190-195 of those gallons are 'usable'. The rest is dead weight that sits on the bottom of the barrels that the fuel pick-ups can't reach. *** I used to own a Diesel VW bug that got 45mpg. Can you imagine if I hung a 125 gallon tank on the roof? I could drive for a year without refueling! |
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Post by Blastgirl on Jun 22, 2008 23:06:30 GMT -5
I have a Monte Carlo it gets about twenty-two miles a gallon with a V6 engine. It's peppy though.
Classic has a F350 and a Mustang GT so he can pay through the nose at the pumps for fuel I guess.
I think the Mustang can get good gas mileage but he says "It can, but don't care to drive it that way though."
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Post by tractakid on Jun 23, 2008 1:55:30 GMT -5
Thats a lorry, not a truck. (stupid German making me capitalise English nouns :@.) |
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Post by Phil on Jun 23, 2008 12:40:58 GMT -5
It seems that on the other side of the water the slang terminology is different.
When Thunderbird posted the pictures of a F-350 dual wheel dumptruck Slayer of Australia said 'that's a ute not a truck.' He explained that in Australia a truck is like a semi or a full sized dumptruck, a fire engine etc.
I assume ute is slang for utility. In fact since that post when I did some Youtube blogs I was actually talking to Slayer and I said 'I'm driving my Chevy ute,'
Now it looks like in the UK a semi tractor is not a truck but a lorry.
I find it interesting. Would my pickup be considered a truck, a lorry or a ute in England?
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Post by tractakid on Jun 23, 2008 12:56:50 GMT -5
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Post by Phil on Jun 23, 2008 13:19:26 GMT -5
I see. In the United States, at least in Northern Pennsylvania, truck is a catch all to anything that is not a passenger car. A definition of a van would be the same.  This is called a cube van because the cube box is separate from the cab but the cab is the same as the smaller van.  although it's not unheard of to call a van a truck in conversation. They do share some parts.  There's a small version of a pickup too. We call tractors you posted tractors also. But we slangly call the pulling vehicle in a semi truck and trailer assembly as a tractor but that's a slang term. |
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Post by Mahnarch on Jun 24, 2008 1:47:18 GMT -5
You've got that 'Cube Truck' but, we've also got 'Straight Trucks', which are like the cubes, only bigger.  A 'Cube Truck' only holds 8, or so skids, single stacked. A 'Straight Truck' holds 12-14 skids - when you double stack it's 24-28' |
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Post by tractakid on Jun 24, 2008 1:57:28 GMT -5
Do you ever get double decker busses?
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Post by Phil on Jun 24, 2008 14:01:11 GMT -5
The straight truck might qualify as a Lorry. But Tractakid would have to answer that.
There are double decker buses in some parts of the United States. They're not as common here in the east coast but in crowded cities where public transportation is more popular there are some.
It's kind of cool to be on the upper deck of a double decker bus.
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