How Do You Increase The Fuel Mileage On A Tractor Trailer Truck?
Achieving optimum fuel efficiency is a major concern for drivers of tractor trailers. Extra costs associated with poor fuel mileage have a direct and negative effect on the owners and operators of big rigs. Expenses associated with diesel prices and low miles per gallon are also passed along to the average citizen, who must purchase and consume the variety of goods shipped all over the country in tractor trailers. Thus, it is important to everyone that big rigs get the best fuel mileage possible. Operators have a number of ways to accomplish this. Travel at a speed of approximately 60 mph on the highway. Speeding is one of the majorcontributors to poor fuel mileage. For every mph over 50, you will decrease your mileage by approximately 0.1 mile per gallon.. Avoid the upper end of the power scale (1,500 to 1,800/2,100 rpm) when starting out from a dead stop. Instead, try to short-shift in the low-range gears between 1,100 and 1,200 rpm. When you shift into high range, use 1,500 rpm as t
