Had to attend for one hour a Tesco class today on this new fangled “Fleetboard” truck management system they are fitting to their fleet nationwide.
One of the stats they showed was to get a loaded 40t 5 axle artic from 0mph up to 56mph cost approx (at todays UK prices) £1.20
Also when idling a 400hp truck it used approx one British gallon per hour in diesel
How do they do it in North America when 1000’s of trucks idle 24/7 in the extreme cold of Winter and the hot Summers
I’d say he’s talking out of his arse. You can’t trust anything Tesco say! You can only equate cost to litres used, so by the theory that 0 to 56 uses 1 litre, every truck inside the M25 would use a full tank of derv everyday, because presumably, just accelerating to 30 would use half a litre. Rubbish! As for idle consumption, a Volvo uses half a gallon an hour, but those mercs must be juicy if they use a litre to accelerate
I was charging batteries up on my daf idling it, cant remember exact figure but it was around gallon a hour and i can easily belive a fully freighted motor would wash through a litres worth of diesel getting upto speed hence the reason i ■■■■ out the window lol
PROB A LOAD OF ■■■■■■■■ AS LIKE WHAT ONE SENSIBLE PERSON HAS ALREADY SAID DONT BELIEVE WHAT TESCO SAY! I WORK FOR THE COOP AND THEY HAVE LIMITED VEHICLES TO 52MPH AND DONT THINK ITS SAVING THAT MUCH.WOULD HELP IF THEY UNDERSTOOD TRANSPORT!400HP UNIT I WISH THE COOP WOULD HAVE A FIT!
Without having a calculator to hand. An artic doing 8.5 mpg costs approx 55 pence per mile in fuel, so a truck pulling away from a standing start doing say 4mpg will easily be near the figure mentioned.
Get your calculator fuel price £1.02 pence per litre. x 4.546 = gallons. divide figure by say 4 mpg and you will get the figure.
Anybody driving a truck with a computer would be able to see the mpg from a standing start if they use it.
