Out of “professional curiosity”, is there any way to work out the fuel consumption of my hiab wagon when I have the PTO engaged?
Wagon is a 61 plate 450 horse low-roof Iveco Trakker 8-legger with a front mounted 60 ton/ metre hiab with the aerodynamics of the proverbial bick craphouse The PTO runs at 900 rpm, which is roughly 2/3rds of “cruising” revs, that being 1350 rpm at 53-ish mph, and average road consumption is 8.5 to 9.5 mpg. Am I right in assuming that if I use 6 or so galleons per hour on the road, I’ll use 2/3rds of that, ie 4 galleons or so, when stood using the hiab?
My reason for wanting to know is that the firm have taken to putting fuel figures for the fleet ( a mix of 18 ton Dafs, Renault, Scania and Daf artic’s and “my” hiab) on the notice board and I’m always in the “poor” area. They don’t seem to take into account the nature of my wagon, so considering that some days I’m on site for 12 hours and the engine/PTO might be running for 8 of those, I’m a bit niggled
Out of “professional curiosity”, is there any way to work out the fuel consumption of my hiab wagon when I have the PTO engaged?
Wagon is a 61 plate 450 horse low-roof Iveco Trakker 8-legger with a front mounted 60 ton/ metre hiab with the aerodynamics of the proverbial bick craphouse The PTO runs at 900 rpm, which is roughly 2/3rds of “cruising” revs, that being 1350 rpm at 53-ish mph, and average road consumption is 8.5 to 9.5 mpg. Am I right in assuming that if I use 6 or so galleons per hour on the road, I’ll use 2/3rds of that, ie 4 galleons or so, when stood using the hiab?
My reason for wanting to know is that the firm have taken to putting fuel figures for the fleet ( a mix of 18 ton Dafs, Renault, Scania and Daf artic’s and “my” hiab) on the notice board and I’m always in the “poor” area. They don’t seem to take into account the nature of my wagon, so considering that some days I’m on site for 12 hours and the engine/PTO might be running for 8 of those, I’m a bit niggled
Out of “professional curiosity”, is there any way to work out the fuel consumption of my hiab wagon when I have the PTO engaged?
Wagon is a 61 plate 450 horse low-roof Iveco Trakker 8-legger with a front mounted 60 ton/ metre hiab with the aerodynamics of the proverbial bick craphouse The PTO runs at 900 rpm, which is roughly 2/3rds of “cruising” revs, that being 1350 rpm at 53-ish mph, and average road consumption is 8.5 to 9.5 mpg. Am I right in assuming that if I use 6 or so galleons per hour on the road, I’ll use 2/3rds of that, ie 4 galleons or so, when stood using the hiab?
My reason for wanting to know is that the firm have taken to putting fuel figures for the fleet ( a mix of 18 ton Dafs, Renault, Scania and Daf artic’s and “my” hiab) on the notice board and I’m always in the “poor” area. They don’t seem to take into account the nature of my wagon, so considering that some days I’m on site for 12 hours and the engine/PTO might be running for 8 of those, I’m a bit niggled
Thanks in advance.
have you talked to them about it? why not ask for your figures not to be listed as they bear no relevance to the fleets figures because of the type of work you do and I assume the other trucks do not have hiabs fitted
Out of “professional curiosity”, is there any way to work out the fuel consumption of my hiab wagon when I have the PTO engaged?
Wagon is a 61 plate 450 horse low-roof Iveco Trakker 8-legger with a front mounted 60 ton/ metre hiab with the aerodynamics of the proverbial bick craphouse The PTO runs at 900 rpm, which is roughly 2/3rds of “cruising” revs, that being 1350 rpm at 53-ish mph, and average road consumption is 8.5 to 9.5 mpg. Am I right in assuming that if I use 6 or so galleons per hour on the road, I’ll use 2/3rds of that, ie 4 galleons or so, when stood using the hiab?
My reason for wanting to know is that the firm have taken to putting fuel figures for the fleet ( a mix of 18 ton Dafs, Renault, Scania and Daf artic’s and “my” hiab) on the notice board and I’m always in the “poor” area. They don’t seem to take into account the nature of my wagon, so considering that some days I’m on site for 12 hours and the engine/PTO might be running for 8 of those, I’m a bit niggled
Thanks in advance.
Some truck fuel computers will display gallons per hour used on whilst stationary, my magnum shows 0.4 gallons per hour on tick over and 1.6 gallons per hour at 900 rpm but that’s not under load.
Lol , i had a similar discussion with my lot the other day , basically they had worked out that my truck uses more fuel doing less mileage than the flat beds going up & down the motorway in an average week ! I said well yes of course it would , I do short distances with far heavier loads down 'country lanes, farm tracks, up & down steep hills etc & when I stop I use the hiab , I think they are still scratching their heads as to how the hiab would mean it uses more fuel ! Some people are just stupid & cannot be educated …
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The PTO runs at 900 rpm, which is roughly 2/3rds of “cruising” revs, that being 1350 rpm at 53-ish mph, and average road consumption is 8.5 to 9.5 mpg. Am I right in assuming that if I use 6 or so galleons per hour on the road, I’ll use 2/3rds of that, ie 4 galleons or so, when stood using the hiab?
