Naw the less fuel you use the better your bottom line is. I had a conversation with a fellow trucker about that. He spent $35,000 more on fuel than I did. I told em I had a better use for $35,000. BTW I was awarded a $300 leather jacket for my fuel saving. I usually pulled into the truck stop right behind the driver doing 10 MPH faster.
at 1 mpg equating to about $1000 per month, I question the $35,000 difference.
Unless he's got a cat pulling 5 mpg and you are getting over 8.5 mpg.
I drive too. That's why I KNEW there was more to your statement of $35,000.
Timing stops and such do play a huge part in saving fuel. How it would impact the situation with the OP, no clue. I would need a better clue as to the lay of the intersection. In this case as I understand it, there is no intersection, it's a dirt road turn off. Just one step above a field approach.
It still goes. It's not the jakes that are the issue. But straight pipes. And I like them on occasion. I have even driven an old 350 Mack with 8" pipes. But it's nothing I would put onto my own truck and not something for the road IMO.
If it were to continue, I'd be on the phone with the sheriff to complain about the noise. But I'd complain about harleys too. Not just the trucks.
We had new neighbors move in 4 years ago. Every time they showed up, they'd turn the car alarm on. Trucks going by wouldn't bother them. Every time a harley left town, they'd set off the car alarm and then the dogs in the area would start up. Jeez, talk about annoying....
After about 6 weeks, they finally stopped turning on the car alarm.
I turned down several great properties when i was shopping duento being too close to the road. Including one i really loved but was sandwiched between i66 (4 lanes @70mph) and a railroad. It was a fantastic property but i know im sensitive to noise and would have ended up shooting at a motorist or myself sooner or later!!!
I have to say as a truck driver also, trucks brake on hills and turns.... Most trucks use engine brakes to save money. If you buy a property on a turn 50' from a highway its going to be noisy. Id imagine calling and complaining will be no good for your business andnwill end up with unintended consequences (littering comes to mind).
For a positive helpful hint; put a nice multi stall bathroom in your resturant. Someone who has been on the road for two days with another day ahead will value a nice bathroom as much as the meal!! Ive even seem places advertise as "cleanest restroom in 100miles" etc. i usually stop there!!
For a positive helpful hint; put a nice multi stall bathroom in your resturant. Someone who has been on the road for two days with another day ahead will value a nice bathroom as much as the meal!! Ive even seem places advertise as "cleanest restroom in 100miles" etc. i usually stop there!!
I have left places without eating after seeing the bathroom. If they can't keep it clean, what's the kitchen like?
One of the things I look for is a home type setting and feeling. Make it look like a franchise and I'll pass it by.
The issue is a truck with straight pipes and no muffler. Something the OP claims she rides her motorcycle with hickman headers. Sounds rather hypocritical to me.
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Actually, the entire issue is the Jake Brakes, and only the use of them at 3 am. None of these trucks sound like they have straight pipes at all. I do know the difference. Especially since as soon as that thing is released, they are no more loud than any other truck, Which isn't all that loud really.
I also have baffles in my exhaust for my bike, no straight pipe. I suppose it could seem to be hypocritical of someone, if that someone rode their bike at 3 am and made a point of revving that throttle every chance they get, but I don't. My bike is parked, after 10, had a bad run in with a deer once after dark, so no nighttime riding for me.
Please go back and re read the original post, it is all about the Jakes, nothing else.
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I do own a truck. I DO have a straight performance muffler on it with no baffle. My Jake is actually quieter I have been told with this new muffler than with the stock system.
A truck with a proper and correct muffler will make little or no sound using a jake. FACT.
It will be no more of a bother at 3 AM than it is at 3 PM.
Nebraska State code on the matter.
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Sec. 17-2. Mufflers for fans and engines.
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or cause to be operated any noise-creating blower or power fan or any internal combustion engine, the operation of which causes noise due to the explosion of operating gases or fluids, unless the noise from such blower or fan is muffled and such engine is equipped with a muffler device sufficient to deaden such noise, so that the same shall not cause annoyance to the public or disturb the rest and quiet of persons on adjacent premises.
60-6,369. Noise; restrictions.
No person shall sell, or offer for sale, a new motor vehicle with a gross vehicle weight of ten thousand pounds or more that produces a maximum noise exceeding a noise limit of 80dB(A) at a distance of fifty feet from the centerline of travel under test procedures established by section 60-6,372.
perhaps instead of being snarky or rude you could track down 1 or 2 of the drivers and ask them not to use their jakes at 3 am or during sleeping hours next to your house,sometimes just simply asking will accomplish more then signs and cold weiners although I got a chuckle out the charging double post,,lol,I always start with "you catch more flies with honey than vinegar"theory and then go from there,,
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