Fuel Mileage Trucker

[Music] walk or Holland driver right there he keeps moving around because he can't find a place to be out of the way and that's the thing with me so while we're sitting here you and I haven't had good old TuneIn crackers for a while to let beat while we wait for this receiver to get in I better hurry up and eat these crackers they're vibrating off of my dashboard now we have another trucker on the other side of us you guys can have some of this so don't don't be offended so we all have an appointment this morning I'm early so I'm just trying to stay out of the way I'm sure I'll get kicked out of here but I don't know where else to go it's one of those small little warehouse streets where there's many trucks well we got a door and it's real title with it so just like over here but it's even tighter on the other side I don't feel so bad there were guys that have been here all weekend stuck in this little lime hole so walk over there to the other side and get told them and hopefully they can unload the 13 pallets quickly [Music] [Music] we only have 13 pallets so it shouldn't take them too long so I'm up now let's try it if I can do what that guy did he wasn't so bad there's absolutely no room to pull up here so you pretty much have to get it in the first your first try otherwise you got to go all the way back out wish me luck [Music] [Music] [Music] well I got lucky all right well we got got in here so now we just got to wait they haven't started yet but I just just got back in I'm going to call a load I found a Pennsylvania it doesn't pay that well but it's a longer load nothing in Florida pays good so let's try to get that load up to Pennsylvania yeah hi this is Jack with travel local good morning I'm calling about a loan that you have on it is going from Orlando to Chambersburg and yep all right well we got unloaded here in Orlando now we got to go back to Kissimmee and we did get that Pennsylvania load I'll head over back to facility which is where it came from this morning before I pick you guys up so let's head over there and get that on board and then we'll head up either later this afternoon or tomorrow up to Pennsylvania it took um all together we've been here for four hours this morning so but was go ahead of schedule they weren't plus download me till 1:00 then it's only 11 o'clock so we're still way ahead of schedule that truck ahead of us that trailer is one of the trailers I pulled when I trained for parking at Roadmaster instructions here and this is the area that we drove around it and I had a very positive experience training with Roadmaster which is simply a company that gets you your CDL they don't they don't take job they don't teach you how to be a truck driver they teach you how to get your CDL and then when you go on to be a carrot with a carrier or whoever you start with they're the ones that actually treat you to have to be a truck driver and often misunderstood thing in our careers here when I'm not moving trailers home building or fixing stuff you can find me watching adventures in trucking with Indiana Jack stay tuned all right well we got here have to pick up got a door and they're going to load us right away so the plan is coming together all right alright alright alright we're looking for 11 which should be down here at the end [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right well we're loaded and feeling one thing I noticed as I pulled out I'm dripping and so I asked the guy at first I thought it was my tractor and I thought oh no you know but it's there's water in those pots and on the top you know they'll be flushing in all that water eventually will come out wanted to check though after we're supposed to have a little rain this afternoon so maybe we will it this is one of the driest seasons on record here in Florida so hopefully we'll get one well we're in rush hour in Jacksonville and it's raining doesn't help at all very frustrating we're in Georgia Brunswick to be exact [Music] and here I usually stop at the TA is one of the only TAS that I thought that creepily and not because it has a Starbucks because I'm not going to go to Starbucks just think I like it because the way it's laid out [Music] [Music] [Music] be in the morning st. George South Carolina everybody's getting breakfast at the fuel Islands no place to get to you all there's a place maybe not all right we're actually going to get fuel here we're not getting breakfast at the fuel island I've been using Kevin Rutherford let's truck software again I used it for years he's a guy on Sirius XM satellite radio 1:46 Road dog a trucking radio station for specifically for truckers and he does such good programming on his radio show for us truckers I wish it was on more quite frankly but it's not but anyway his software let's truck or fuel gauges it's called you can get it for free put your mileage in right at the pump and know exactly what your truck is getting in fuel mileage when I have my truck in the shop in Maine you guys were with me evolved all found a few Li right near my engine and the mechanic the main mechanic his name is guy that I've talked about really an excellent shop manager there is a Volvo in Portland Maine you know he said hey have you noticed your fuel mileage going down because of that fuel leak and I was embarrassed because I know I had stopped using German software not even that I wasn't losing not much fuel that probably wouldn't have shown up but it kind of woke me up to say you know I'm not going to slack off in knowing my fuel mileage you know when I was with night I knew exactly what my fuel mileage was and because of the lows I was getting I was a 6.5 truck but especially now that I came to travel Loco I lost track of that so I've been driving faster so I haven't been as getting as good a fuel mileage is what I thought so now I'm going to have to slow down some but your fuel mileage numbers tell you the stories that you need to know about your truck like if I would have been monitoring my fuel mileage closer I might have noticed that fuel Lee you don't like Rams hit fast forward his show is about trucks and truckers and things that help you and I being better truckers period he deviates occasionally on helping people lose weight because fat truckers are unhealthy and it's a good thing that he does that but 90% of his show is about trucks and things that you and I want to hear about there's another show that's called freewheelin which is kind of like Sirius XM's flagship trucking show which is only about 60% trucking if that the majority of what they do is Hollywood and bands and authors and they do a really good job at them so I don't want to criticize them because they do Hollywood well and they they interview well they they interact well I think they should move their show to the 109 Network it's called stars which is it's for Hollywood people and people that want to hear about all the Hollywood this and that and then move Kevin Rutherford's show in their place that's more of a real trucking show so that we always have an option of listening to about trucks if we want to we as truckers don't have a voice to the folks at Sirius XM satellite radio in Washington DC and in New York they don't know what we want they base their ratings on the amount of calls but maybe they get twice as many calls as Kevin I don't know but I sure would like to see that happen because you wouldn't lose Chris and Meredith show freewheelin they would be over there on the Hollywood Network where they're much happier talking about Hollywood and put Kevin Show on in their timeslot and more of us could watch that or listen to it that's really upset me over the years and I've finally had to get that out I'd like to hear your comments if you agree with that I know not all of you like Kevin Rutherford but I'll bet you're more like Kevin Rutherford talking about truck so then the other guys talking about Hollywood what sits outside of Statesville North Carolina after next quite an incline and that will be him 81 and headed north for Easter event so let's get going when the so far this morning there is a trail that road we're going up and the gap right now as promised pretty busy day actually lot of trucks but it's nice outside you know that helps could be raining Chloe and up here on the 81 will behead me more miles we're in Elliston Virginia just about to get out of here just a quick stop here and we have another hundred and fifty miles to where we're going to be stopping tonight so sounds good to get out and stretch my legs let's get rolling [Music] [Music] all right I made it to Thomas broke Virginia I'm looking for a load for tomorrow and there's one here I'm going to call it a load going from here to nil annoy only 8,000 pounds all the rest are New Jersey in New York and you couldn't pay me enough to go there like I got a neighbor just finished up my logs to drove eleven and a half or ten and a half hours puffing up I remember when this love wasn't even here it was just a field or they were just building it and then they built it and it opened I remember coming here was a winter and everything was solid ice very contrary to what it is today you know 85 degrees it's a little bit rundown but it's the same old place hi I don't come to loves as much anymore but when it you know when it's a memory like this I don't mind coming good to be back at a place that I haven't been in so many years you know good morning four o'clock and all's well everybody's jam-packed with a few islands this morning [Music] and we're pulling up now they are probably not here yet keeping in the tradition with my kind of trucking I'm always dirty [Music] shipping office but yet another tradition no receiving office so we'll have to go out and these legwork walk around until we can find they're receiving time at least they have a shipping sign but now receiving how human and they said to break the seal and let's see how everything rode ah good thing we had the load bar there all right let's go down to the receiving dock and back in down there [Music] [Music] - doc Kim dock 10 is the first one there it's hard to see because of the Sun so we'll do the best we can in the blinding Sun [Music] [Music] Adie shipping receiving same same awful yes sir right up there they don't have a good sign oh I know inside when you go in and on say receiving I said the same thing nice but here a lot of five nine o'clock this morning oh they'll take you good luck well I gotta waste time because I I started my time early way back and then from Maryland you know sure 45,000 pounds all right what do you got oh I don't know oh my time you can't count oh oh I see your log book well I'll just waste some time right here before I check in there you go raspberries are a good source of all kind of vitamins and stuff that you need potassium but most of all they remind me of my grandfather because I used to go out in the fields with Indian tick red raspberries just like that in the fields in Michigan so eating or like this reminds me so much of him hey guys it's boy Shawn you're watching adventures in trucking with Indiana Jack stay tuned we left the receiver this morning all is good hopefully that truck here we met was able to get unloaded also we're going to Carlisle right now Carlisle Pennsylvania the crossroads to trucking in Pennsylvania where all the truck stop dan will stop of course at the Flying J there for the night and in the morning we have a pickup not too far from there not too far from Carlisle Pennsylvania you probably get tired of hearing me say what a nice day it is but it's a very nice day out glad you're riding along with me [Music] [Applause] [Music] fired up old red she's running fine yeah we're just getting everything going my and J here in Carlile's wakin up I got my coffee we're going to go make a pickup going to Arkansas here in simple idiom not like that percent of coffee in the morning something you'll hear me say quite often one thing I'm not very fond of his new TV 740 brand McNally GPS the screen used to be interactive and you could press on the screen and it would tell you what that particular icon was like I used to like to be able to see what a service area that was and it would tell me now it's not an interactive screen you could push on that screen all day long which doesn't tell you that they failed in that regard I'm going to do a review I promise and that's definitely going to be in the review taking away that interactive screen for us is not a good thing definitely not a good thing as we prepare to leave this morning go up to Auburn Pennsylvania pick one up going to where we go in Arkansas all right trucks good she really is running fine if the copy ain't hot or run out of time roll it down the road let's get on our way to Auburn if we can get out of here without mowing over these yellow times I think we can they sure do pack them in here [Music] [Music] [Music] well we're here in Albarn mean not Auburn me Auburn Pennsylvania looks like we're picking up like old refrigerators or something like that so at least we have a clean trailer from yesterday and it's dry I think they're done I think they're done that's the translations what they do here is refurbish refrigerators commercial refrigerator's for like when you go into a store or a truck stop and so they take in old ones they rebuild them paint them make them work and they're like new again it's really cool you know what never mind what I said this morning if you take your finger and hold on where you want to go it brings up the information that you want to know so I'm sorry when McNally for misjudging you but you take your finger and hold it there on the thing and then the little sub screen pops up so never mind we're talking about fuel mileage on this trip for the most part lots of other things but the subject is fuel mileage I've got roughly 58 it keeps switching from 58 to 61 gallons left which can supposedly bring me another 500 miles I haven't fueled up yet since we filled up the other day we'll be filling up pretty soon maybe we'll fill up at Carlisle again I not again but we maybe we'll go back there I'm not sure I can probably make it we're all right same old story got to make sure those are latched up there and then we pop our seal on and we're out of here all right well off we go [Music] these houses along here look much like they did back in the day of Benjamin Franklin you might see him sitting out on the porch smoking a pipe with his bifocals on in those days every house had a porch much like these houses because in the evening is when I was so hot or even in the day there was no air-conditioning they had to sit out on the porch during lemonade or I pee otherwise you'd bake to death inside the house just like Andy Griffith and Opie in Mayberry [Music] as soon as we get down the numbers right in what for us and what our fuel mileage is we display and then I got to get such a great guy all right we're going to put it in we put in 159 gallons and we put that right in the software 159 and the price per gallon 265 true and then save and that's what we got [Music] my idols for four hours yesterday that didn't help and I was driving not 66 miles an hour busted Hills total for Pennsylvania still I should have slowed down 6.39 is not good for me I want to get better than that and that's why we're revisiting this you know it's good for you to do this all the time but I slacked off for a while so I'm doing it again the fuel here was 265 in Pennsylvania was 3/16 so jeez it would have been a lot more to fuel up there so I'm glad we made spear so let's get going I want to go another hundred miles at least Columbus before we stop for the day let's get out of here I wish I would have got 7 miles per gallon but we didn't do that but let's go this is actually a night pilot I don't remember if it's brand-new or if they read open [Music] we made it to Cartersville Ohio just outside of Columbus stop for the night here [Music] [Music] good morning 8:30 and all's well yes I let you sleep in it is just too hard to get you guys all breakfast and all situated with coffee and french toast and all that stuff and still milk all over and everything so I like to sleep in and we're going through Indianapolis Indiana [Music] you got to really go slow through here because of all the hairpin curves and the bumps gee [Music] so we do have some coffee for you in a travel thermos so you don't spill it and some other breakfast items sit back and enjoy yourself as we continue to talk about fuel mileage on our epic trip almost across half of the United States anyway [Music] [Music] [Music] and I'm closing out my logs for the day a lot of you ask what logging system I used it called keep truckin AEP truckin TR you ckin and it's a really good app I really like it and so we're closing that out here in Springfield Missouri [Music] [Music] they are completely remodeling this whole store here in Arkansas I just talked to the manager told them we were here and they're not going to take it early but I thought I'd ask so we're here camped out for the day found a place here to park the truck with some other truck so we'll fit right in well it looks like looks like the zulus Road okay but we've just got to get back in now and then we'll be done I'll be out of here well we have a problem they don't have a forklift here hello and they don't have anything that can go underneath there and get these pallets off so I'm not sure what we're going to do you know usually there is a little more room like regular pallet or about what five inches they have about two inches underneath there in yeah [Music] [Music] well that's all she wrote we're unloaded now here in Rogers Arkansas make sure if you want to come see these refrigerators they'll be right here at the price cutter store here in Rogers Arkansas I don't know why you would want to come see them but you can come and get something that they have in those refrigerators they'll be up and running by July thanks for watching I'm Indiana Jack and this is adventures in trucking we'll see you next time [Music]

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Keywords: Kevin Rutherford, fuel gauges, let's truck, Trucking videos, trucker videos, truck driver, Travel Channel, Pilot Flying J

Id: YnIUA0Jp1YI

Length: 48min 21sec (2901 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 09 2017