Idle/Drive Ratio
Just curious how my truck compares. 2015 Ram Cummins, just under 87k miles and I bought it new. I'm currently showing the following: Idle: 95 Hours Drive: 2736 Hours How about you guys?
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1320Fastback wrote:Cummins12V98 wrote:1320Fastback wrote:
Just to throw a wrench into the mix. This is on a piece of equipment I drive at work.
Idle: 496 hours
Drive: 366 hours
You mean this is a truck I "IDLE AT WORK"
It's actually a telescopic forklift and the idle hours are so high because most of the time your not actually moving much while working. Setting trusses on a third floor could be 2 minutes of driving in and 15 minutes of jockeying the package in just the right position and then repeat that 47 times per phase X 14 phases per jobsite. Setting beams is another procedure where idle hours build up. All the hooking and unhooking is all idle time and condo buildings will have 25-50 beams per floor.
There are days though where idle is near zero. Unloading lumber trucks, organizing the materials and units and moving them out to where they need to be is a full day of full throttle.
My truck doesn't count hours. Hell it doesn't even have a computer in it.
This is why some trucks or equipment you change the oil based on engine hours and not miles. At work we have a couple of Kalmar forklifts with cummins engines and the operators do their daily inspections first thing in the morning, start them up and are not shut down until we close.
