Idle/Drive Ratio

[IdaD]

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?

[Grit_dog]

wanderingbob wrote:
On my 2014 Ram , if ya hold the button down you can zero those numbers and start all over ! Maybe ya'll are miss-understanding those gizmos ?

Say wut?
Ummm, no you can’t “zero out” engine hours…..
Lol.
Where would you even come up with something like this?

[Grit_dog]

rhagfo wrote:

mudfuel07 wrote:

rhagfo wrote:

mudfuel07 wrote:
2018 Cummins
Idle: 736
Drive: 365

Bought it with 56k on it about 2 weeks ago.

You sure those are correct? 56,000 miles in 365 hours is 153.4 average mph!
Even 736 hours is an average of 76 mph, not realistic.

736 is the idle, not the drive.

Has the computer ever been replaced??
With 365 drive hours and 56,000 miles 56,000 / 365 = 153.42 mph average speed something isn't right.

I already explained the issue. It’s not uncommon for these trucks to read the wrong hours.

[rhagfo]

mudfuel07 wrote:

rhagfo wrote:

mudfuel07 wrote:
2018 Cummins
Idle: 736
Drive: 365

Bought it with 56k on it about 2 weeks ago.

You sure those are correct? 56,000 miles in 365 hours is 153.4 average mph!
Even 736 hours is an average of 76 mph, not realistic.

736 is the idle, not the drive.

Has the computer ever been replaced??
With 365 drive hours and 56,000 miles 56,000 / 365 = 153.42 mph average speed something isn't right.

[Cummins12V98]

wanderingbob wrote:
On my 2014 Ram , if ya hold the button down you can zero those numbers and start all over ! Maybe ya'll are miss-understanding those gizmos ?

No need to clear IMHO. But if you do I guarantee the computer will keep the score!

[wanderingbob]

On my 2014 Ram , if ya hold the button down you can zero those numbers and start all over ! Maybe ya'll are miss-understanding those gizmos ?

[Grit_dog]

mudfuel07 wrote:

rhagfo wrote:

mudfuel07 wrote:
2018 Cummins
Idle: 736
Drive: 365

Bought it with 56k on it about 2 weeks ago.

You sure those are correct? 56,000 miles in 365 hours is 153.4 average mph!
Even 736 hours is an average of 76 mph, not realistic.

736 is the idle, not the drive.

It still has well over 1000 drive hours. Probably a minimum of around 1400 if it was mostly highway miles.
These trucks are known to have defective hour meters, some of them. And yours is one of them.

[mudfuel07]

rhagfo wrote:

mudfuel07 wrote:
2018 Cummins
Idle: 736
Drive: 365

Bought it with 56k on it about 2 weeks ago.

You sure those are correct? 56,000 miles in 365 hours is 153.4 average mph!
Even 736 hours is an average of 76 mph, not realistic.

736 is the idle, not the drive.

[Cummins12V98]

blt2ski wrote:
Been looking at my GM pickup, transit I drive at work, none show both idle and drive hrs. This must be a Ram fummins option?!?!?.....ooops....errrrrr Cummins option?!?!?

The trucks I've had with hr meters only list hrs combined. I've been in the 20-30 mph relm. I don't personally do a lot of interstate driving as a percentage.

Marty

It's what ya get when ya step up to the BIG LEAGUE. 😉

[goducks10]

2019 Ram 3500
12,112 miles
7,014 towing
Idle 45
Drive 332

[blt2ski]

Been looking at my GM pickup, transit I drive at work, none show both idle and drive hrs. This must be a Ram fummins option?!?!?.....ooops....errrrrr Cummins option?!?!?

The trucks I've had with hr meters only list hrs combined. I've been in the 20-30 mph relm. I don't personally do a lot of interstate driving as a percentage.

Marty

[Cummins12V98]

I kinda think everyone understands this is about our trucks. Post what you want but be clear what you are posting about.

"This is on a piece of equipment I drive at work"

[Vanished]

I'll play...
2019 F350 DRW Powerstroke
Engine hours 678
Idle hours 120
percentage idle - 15%
Miles 24,225
Ave Speed - 36mph
Towing miles are ~60% of total miles

[1320Fastback]

Absolutely. We do oil and filters every 250 hours. Axles and trans every 750.

[FishOnOne]

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.

[1320Fastback]

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.