I know what y'all are saying.
I ran a 1996 International 4900, that 10 - 15 times a day would gross out at 27500 KG's (60 500 pounds)...powered by a DT466...Not an E series, but a mechanical 190 horsepower, DT466 with the P7100 Bosch inline pump. She had an 8LL and I THINK 5.29's in it.
100 KM/h was MAXIMUM, even then I felt like I was punishing it.
I would start up a slight incline a mile or so long, and be into the LOW side of the tranny....like 30 KM/h in a 100 KM/h zone.
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Now, I am at the complete other end of the spectrum.
I got a 1999 Kenworth W900L, 525 horsepower N14 Cummins, 13 DOUBLE overdrive, 3.42's in the rearends...46000 pounders to boot. It will start at the bottom of that same hill...at a red light...with the same 60500 pounds combined weight on...and I can shift gears the WHOLE way to the top..gaining speed the entire way up.
Empty, it will keep upto traffic as a joke if I push it a little. But if I REALLY use it, I can keep anxious motorists behind me and keep from getting cut off...but it's too ******* the truck.
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Most people buy the smaller trucks for less cost thinking that they will save them money.
WRONG!
There are SEVERAL M2 106 Freightliners with 300 mercedes, 330 cummins and a pile of GMC 8500's with the C7 300 HP Cat and 300 Izuzu engines that will litterally chew up 300 liters a day, doing the same job I am doing for litterally 100 - 130 liters. Same loads, same haul...just more cost.
I get an easy 7 - 8 MPG outta the N14 depending on what I am hauling and to where...but the same haul yeilds 3 - 5 MPG out of the other trucks with less power.