Cruise control

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tonypv12:
Hi all i drive a DAF XF with Cruise control working as a tramper and last year it went into our local dealer for a service / inspection. Whilst in there the manaqgement system had an upgrade and it came back with the speed limiter set to 90k (55mph) and the cruise control maxing out at 85k (52 mph). I thought this was great i could stick it on cruise at anything above 85k and then take my foot off the throttle and it would back off to 85k , great for most motorways and dual carriagways a few of the faster guys would overtake but most of the time you would be catching up with the sensible operators that are speed limited to 50 /53 mph IE wincanton /Asda/Tesco/Cullina ect. To overtake them all you need to do is put your foot to the floor and pass them at 55 mph ( a couple of minutes at the most not 5 or 10 miles stuck alongside them ) then when passed them back off the throttle and back to 52 mph. I thought this was an ideal setup. I thought driving at a leasurley pace saving the company money by saving fuel an still getting the job done.
That was until i went on holiday for a week got back and the cruise control was now set at 90k 55mph by an agency driver. He had taken it into DAF and had it adjusted to what he thought was correct. So whe i found this out i protested and had it set back to 85kph. then last month i went on holiday again but this time i asked the person in charge of the servicig and repairs in the transport office to ensure that the settings would not be altered again. i was told they would not be touched!!!
I came back off holiday and i can now cruise again at 90k. Is it me or is this same agency driver running our trasport department.
I have driven on the agency for more years than this guy has had his HGV. You get paid by the hour the more hours you work the more you get paid!!! So why would you want to drive flat out on cruise control■■? I think it is dangerous and also a wast of fuel.
Can anybody tell me why daf set the cruise control as a default to 85k and is this a legal requirement as our transport manager says i can not have it reset to what i want (85kph)

aaaahhhhhhhhh, there there

does baby want his comfort blanket back because all these big nasty horrible lorry drivers are picking on him?

man up and grow a pair you eeeeejit :unamused:

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billybigrig:

Pimpdaddy:
Ok then calculate the additional time wasted, wages bill for extra hours incurred etc, all works out the same to me working on your theory…

1000 miles at 56mph = 17.85 hours

1000 miles at 50 mph = 20 hours

So unless Spankers is paying 70 quid an hour he’s laughin :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

oh dear, another one stupid enough to fall into the trap :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :unamused:

what you have done there my friend is divide 1000 by both 56 and 50 to get your figures

a truck will not be able to travel at 56 or 50 mph for the whole duration of the 1000 miles, so, in effect, you have given the worse case scenario, but, in reality, it would not be that great a differential between the two speeds

in your example, the difference is little over 2 hours, but, in reality, the actual difference would only be little over 1 hour, if that, over the total distance, this would be down to lost speeds during traffic jams, roadworks, non motorway driving, stopping and starting at delivery points

i sometimes drive at 52 voluntarily, and the difference over a 4 hour drive between that and 56 is purely a matter of a couple of minutes, i think the most it has been is about 4 minutes on the drive i took

now, going back to the OP, if he was given a Bugatti Veyron to drive, that is capable of well over 200MPh, would he moan about that because the cruise control could be set at over 200MPh?

just because the vehicle is capable of doing those speeds, it doesn’t mean that you have to do them

the speed limits on the roads are MAX limits, they are not a target

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tonypv12:

Harry Monk:
I’m just amazed that the company told a holiday relief agency driver to take a vehicle into a main dealer to have the cruise control adjusted.

the copmpany did not tell him to he did it himself twice i think he is trying to wind me up!!! it worked as i thought that if the truck was driven by you for about 48 weeks of the year then you should have a little say in how it is set up right or wrong.

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scania730lover:

billybigrig:

Pimpdaddy:
Ok then calculate the additional time wasted, wages bill for extra hours incurred etc, all works out the same to me working on your theory…

1000 miles at 56mph = 17.85 hours

1000 miles at 50 mph = 20 hours

So unless Spankers is paying 70 quid an hour he’s laughin :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

oh dear, another one stupid enough to fall into the trap :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :unamused:

what you have done there my friend is divide 1000 by both 56 and 50 to get your figures

a truck will not be able to travel at 56 or 50 mph for the whole duration of the 1000 miles, so, in effect, you have given the worse case scenario, but, in reality, it would not be that great a differential between the two speeds

in your example, the difference is little over 2 hours, but, in reality, the actual difference would only be little over 1 hour, if that, over the total distance, this would be down to lost speeds during traffic jams, roadworks, non motorway driving, stopping and starting at delivery points

i sometimes drive at 52 voluntarily, and the difference over a 4 hour drive between that and 56 is purely a matter of a couple of minutes, i think the most it has been is about 4 minutes on the drive i took

:unamused: :unamused: :unamused: Not really genius. I was making a short, snappy and simplistic point based on the simplest of figures that the OP was working to in order to illustrate the point with a level of humour and sarcasm hence the >> :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

If we’re being really pedantic though I’m surprised you didn’t add the virtues of momentum when you’re “non motorway driving” :unamused: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

I’ve driven, run and owned enough motors to be more than acutely aware of the differences :wink:
More so these days when I spend most of my day trundling along with an ■■■■■■ or behind some tool doing 49mph that’s not so easy to pass when your wide :unamused:

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My renault does 11 mpg I don’t need to go to dealer get cruise control set and I do 55.6 mph tracker says linked to office and fuel consumption and fridge trailers they now when they are running and what twmp

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Pimpdaddy:
I really hate people who think wasting other road users time & endangering them by driving slow just to get a few quid extra in your pay packet is ok :smiling_imp:
Like ‘stagedriver’ says stick to 56 like everyone else on the motorway, the limit is 60 for HGVs…!!!

One of the mechanics in our local dealer said to us it doesn’t really save fuel at all, it reduces instantaneous consumption but levels out because the engine has to run for a longer time I.e 56miles @ 56mph=1h, 56miles @ 50mph=1h6min. That extra 6 min still burns fuel & co2 emissions are produced, common sense but clearly management & some drivers are too stupid to figure that out-it’s called ‘false economy’…!

You seem to feel very free to call other drivers stupid, three words…POT KETTLE & BLACK.

Maybe you’re too stupid to understand that.

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You’re absolutely spot in there mucker, please enlighten this stupid one on what you mean…

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:laughing: at your signature, you really are no. 1 tool.

At first I thought you might be serious but now I think (hope :open_mouth: ) I’ve seen through it. TROLL.

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Cheers, you’re a clever un’ aren’t ya… :wink:

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oops not that clever

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schrodingers cat:
49 posts in 1 day
not bad. :laughing:

edited for crap timekeeping :blush:

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What puzzles me is who is authorising either the OP or the agency driver to go to the garage just to adjust the CC?
Surely everytime it goes in its costing the company money

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Most companies got plenty money but no brains, hence some of us still being in a job :smiley:

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They are set at 85 kmh so you can set the automatic brake system (retarder) which kicks in 3 kmh faster, stopping the veh going over 90 kmh and getting an “overspeed”

Geoff

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gbtransp:
They are set at 85 kmh so you can set the automatic brake system (retarder) which kicks in 3 kmh faster, stopping the veh going over 90 kmh and getting an “overspeed”

Geoff

that is, of course, if the vehicle has got a retarder fitted :wink:

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that is, of course, if the vehicle has got a retarder fitted :wink:
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Standard stuff overhere, even in fleet motors,you only need to buy the frilly curtains yourself :smiley:

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shuttlespanker:

gbtransp:
They are set at 85 kmh so you can set the automatic brake system (retarder) which kicks in 3 kmh faster, stopping the veh going over 90 kmh and getting an “overspeed”

Geoff

that is, of course, if the vehicle has got a ■■■■■■ fitted :wink:

Standard requirement on twistlocks :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing:

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shuttlespanker:

gbtransp:
They are set at 85 kmh so you can set the automatic brake system (retarder) which kicks in 3 kmh faster, stopping the veh going over 90 kmh and getting an “overspeed”

Geoff

that is, of course, if the vehicle has got a ■■■■■■ driving :wink:

fixed that for you spanky

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r slicker:

shuttlespanker:

gbtransp:
They are set at 85 kmh so you can set the automatic brake system (retarder) which kicks in 3 kmh faster, stopping the veh going over 90 kmh and getting an “overspeed”

Geoff

that is, of course, if the vehicle has got a ■■■■■■ driving :wink:

fixed that for you spanky

See above :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing:

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i still can’t work out why the op is unable to set the cruise control themselves.

Is daf different to volvo, scania and iveco?

two 2 way buttons. one for off/resume and one for up/down

so when you get to the speed you want just click the up and it will set the speed. when you get going again just click resume and it will accelerate to the speed you have just set yourself.