Sainsbury's Lorries Today - Sloooooooow
Discussion
GC8 said:
I cant find an HGV tachometer picture in Google - the green area of higher efficiency usually runs out about 5mph before the limited top speed. The further out you have to venture to reach 56mph (or whatever your limit was), then the greater the saving if limited to 50mph.
Partially correct, on some vehicles fitted with overdrive top gears they are designed to operate at 56mph so as their top gear is in the most efficient rpm scale, knock 6 mph and 150rpm off it and it knocks the savings claims out of the window. As stated for limiters to work effectively they should ALL be set at the same speed, variables such as tread depth when tachographs are being calibrated can give a + or - 2-3mph when tyres are changed are unavoidable
jbi said:
Lorries should be travelling at the same speed as the rest of the traffic on the motorways to help ease congestion and reduce accidents
Please take a trip to the EU Parliament and get them to change the EU law on 56mph speed limitersOR
Get the UK Govt to reduce the speed limits for all other road users to those of the trucks
Either will sort what you suggest
The shopping trolleys have been down to 50 mph for quite a while now.
The only time you might see the shopping trolleys going faster than 50 mph is if a subbie~(contractor) unit is pulling the trailer.
Fuel is a massive cost in logistics these days.It costs approx £560(at todays diesel prices) in a 24 hr period in fuel for just one of the trucks at my place of work.We have 45 running around about 360 days a year and are ran 24 hours a day with day and night shifts.
The sums are right there and the total is a bit eye opening.(although we do get a slight discount buying in bulk for the pumps in the yard)
Any savings that can be made in fuel alone these days are being pounced on.
The only time you might see the shopping trolleys going faster than 50 mph is if a subbie~(contractor) unit is pulling the trailer.
Fuel is a massive cost in logistics these days.It costs approx £560(at todays diesel prices) in a 24 hr period in fuel for just one of the trucks at my place of work.We have 45 running around about 360 days a year and are ran 24 hours a day with day and night shifts.
The sums are right there and the total is a bit eye opening.(although we do get a slight discount buying in bulk for the pumps in the yard)
Any savings that can be made in fuel alone these days are being pounced on.
R0G said:
jbi said:
Lorries should be travelling at the same speed as the rest of the traffic on the motorways to help ease congestion and reduce accidents
Please take a trip to the EU Parliament and get them to change the EU law on 56mph speed limitersOR
Get the UK Govt to reduce the speed limits for all other road users to those of the trucks
Either will sort what you suggest
Just a waiting game really until the EU implodes itself.
I find if there's a queue of slow traffic on the A69 at the front will invariably be a sainsburys lorry. I am well aware they are limited to 40mph on single carriageways but find that sainsburys lorries in particular seem to be driven by very belligerent individuals who will not under any circumstances pull into lay-bys to allow the sometimes massive queues to clear, whereas TESCO and Morrisons ones usually do pull over every once in a while.
I'd contest that on hilly single carriageways it would actually be more efficient to go a bit quicker anyway as when the HGVs actually stick to the 40 limit they invariably end up down at 20-25 on the hills in a low gear where 5 years ago they'd have just used their momentum to help them on the hills.
I'd contest that on hilly single carriageways it would actually be more efficient to go a bit quicker anyway as when the HGVs actually stick to the 40 limit they invariably end up down at 20-25 on the hills in a low gear where 5 years ago they'd have just used their momentum to help them on the hills.
martin mrt said:
GC8 said:
I cant find an HGV tachometer picture in Google - the green area of higher efficiency usually runs out about 5mph before the limited top speed. The further out you have to venture to reach 56mph (or whatever your limit was), then the greater the saving if limited to 50mph.
Partially correct, on some vehicles fitted with overdrive top gears they are designed to operate at 56mph so as their top gear is in the most efficient rpm scale, knock 6 mph and 150rpm off it and it knocks the savings claims out of the window. As stated for limiters to work effectively they should ALL be set at the same speed, variables such as tread depth when tachographs are being calibrated can give a + or - 2-3mph when tyres are changed are unavoidable
FunBusMk2 said:
That is true. Although 95% of Tesco fleet is their own. Stobart run in their own colours when on Tesco business (sometimes with a Tesco trailer though). A small amount of Tesco branded fleet is run by Stobart in the North West.
I used to work for NFT so planned alot for Sainsburys / Morrisons / Asda / M&S etc. We ran branded trailers for all of them. Sam.F said:
I find if there's a queue of slow traffic on the A69 at the front will invariably be a sainsburys lorry. I am well aware they are limited to 40mph on single carriageways but find that sainsburys lorries in particular seem to be driven by very belligerent individuals who will not under any circumstances pull into lay-bys to allow the sometimes massive queues to clear, whereas TESCO and Morrisons ones usually do pull over every once in a while.
I'd contest that on hilly single carriageways it would actually be more efficient to go a bit quicker anyway as when the HGVs actually stick to the 40 limit they invariably end up down at 20-25 on the hills in a low gear where 5 years ago they'd have just used their momentum to help them on the hills.
That's becasue pulling over and stopping would bugger up their mpg, as starting from a stop is a no,no in a hgv.I'd contest that on hilly single carriageways it would actually be more efficient to go a bit quicker anyway as when the HGVs actually stick to the 40 limit they invariably end up down at 20-25 on the hills in a low gear where 5 years ago they'd have just used their momentum to help them on the hills.
Dan_1981 said:
FunBusMk2 said:
That is true. Although 95% of Tesco fleet is their own. Stobart run in their own colours when on Tesco business (sometimes with a Tesco trailer though). A small amount of Tesco branded fleet is run by Stobart in the North West.
I used to work for NFT so planned alot for Sainsburys / Morrisons / Asda / M&S etc. We ran branded trailers for all of them. FunBusMk2 said:
Dan_1981 said:
FunBusMk2 said:
That is true. Although 95% of Tesco fleet is their own. Stobart run in their own colours when on Tesco business (sometimes with a Tesco trailer though). A small amount of Tesco branded fleet is run by Stobart in the North West.
I used to work for NFT so planned alot for Sainsburys / Morrisons / Asda / M&S etc. We ran branded trailers for all of them. Did you interview last year sometime? May / June time by any chance?
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