(Photo: James DeCamp and Con-Way Freight) Do you keep your tires inflated?Ĭarl Krites is awarded a trophy for having an impeccable safety record and for driving efficiently. So if you have an 18-wheel, you’ve got a lot of tires there… I know you’re supposed to keep your tires inflated. GELLERMAN: A dogger? Is that what they call you? To me two-miles an hour isn’t going to make that much difference, but you actually save a little more fuel. I get called a dogger because I shut my cruise at 60. I was reading that you go from 70 miles to 65, you save eight percent right off the top. And not only that, but, just the fuel savings.
And, you know, they put out the numbers as to how much fuel we save going from 62 instead of 65, and that itself is astronomical money savings in our fleet. Our trucks are all governed at 62 miles an hour. KRITES: My biggest thing is, and especially with Conway Frieght, we’re real conscious about fuel economy and stuff. GELLERMAN: So do you have special techniques that you use to save gas? KRITES: Right now I work for Con-way Freight and we pull doubles, we haul LTL freight. KRITES: Right at three million miles without a chargeable accident. I guess over the years you’ve put on a few miles in your time. GELLERMAN: You’ve been driving for what, 31 years?
Welcome to Living on Earth.Ĭarl Krites accepts his award for this year’s National Truck Driving Champion. He’s a trucker with Con-way Freight in Ohio and this year’s National Truck Driving Champion. When it comes to driving efficiently Carl Krites is what you might call the MVP of MPGs. But according to a recent study by the National Research Council there’s a lot truckers can do right now to cut fuel consumption and curb tailpipe emissions at little or no cost. However, to get those savings will take a hefty dose of high tech: expensive new engine designs, drive trains and streamlined aerodynamics. If the new regs are adopted, the agencies estimate the new fleet of fuel efficient trucks will provide more than 40 billion dollars in benefits over the lifetime of the vehicles. The EPA and Department of Transportation have proposed new standards set to go into effect in three years. Within a few years, medium and heavy-duty trucks in the United States could be rolling down highways and byways using a lot less fuel, and emitting a lot less greenhouse gases. GELLERMAN: It’s Living on Earth, I’m Bruce Gellerman.
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